The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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... Military Service in England 3. Aircraft in the War 4. The Forests of Finland and European Timber Supplies 5. The Co - operative Movement in India 6. German Business Methods in France before the War 7. The Boy Scout Movement 9. Thoughts ...
... Military Service in England 3. Aircraft in the War 4. The Forests of Finland and European Timber Supplies 5. The Co - operative Movement in India 6. German Business Methods in France before the War 7. The Boy Scout Movement 9. Thoughts ...
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... Military Service in England 9. Thoughts on the Parliament of Scotland C 10. W. G. ' 11. The Shipping Problem 12. Horace at his Sabine Farm 13. The Granville Correspondence 14. Retrenchment and Thrift 15. The Course of the War 16. The ...
... Military Service in England 9. Thoughts on the Parliament of Scotland C 10. W. G. ' 11. The Shipping Problem 12. Horace at his Sabine Farm 13. The Granville Correspondence 14. Retrenchment and Thrift 15. The Course of the War 16. The ...
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... military caste , perhaps only a few thousands all told ' ; and he works out an interesting parallel between their position and that of the Normans in South Italy . He might have found another illustra- tion , still nearer , in the ...
... military caste , perhaps only a few thousands all told ' ; and he works out an interesting parallel between their position and that of the Normans in South Italy . He might have found another illustra- tion , still nearer , in the ...
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... military and political . But the eighth directs our eyes towards a lonely figure on a darkening stage ; and the interest is acutely personal and human , until the curtain falls . There , then , we should expect the Livian influence to ...
... military and political . But the eighth directs our eyes towards a lonely figure on a darkening stage ; and the interest is acutely personal and human , until the curtain falls . There , then , we should expect the Livian influence to ...
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... Roman citizens in Macedonia who were of * L. Cornelius Lentulus Crus , Consul in 49 , and P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther , Consul in 57 . military age to assemble in that place . Cæsar suspected THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEIUS 47.
... Roman citizens in Macedonia who were of * L. Cornelius Lentulus Crus , Consul in 49 , and P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther , Consul in 57 . military age to assemble in that place . Cæsar suspected THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEIUS 47.
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Page 130 - eyes to England's faults, about which his Sonnets use harder words than they ever use about her enemy: ' Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more; The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household lawn.
Page 124 - fiery heart' and 'tumultuous harmony' to prefer the stockdove's song, ' Slow to begin and never ending ; Of serious faith and inward glee; That was the song—the song for me !' yet the ' glee' remained, if now more inward than outward ; and so did the poet's faith in the heart of man
Page 128 - There ! that dusky spot Beneath thee, that is England; there she lies. Blessings be on you both! One hope, one lot, One life, one glory! I with many a fear For my dear Country, many heartfelt sighs, Among men who do not love her, linger here.
Page 131 - For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 131 - the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child 1
Page 402 - 1 grow old. ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind ? Do I dare to eat a
Page 131 - art Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unnlial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 402 - I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.' Here, surely, is the reduction to absurdity of that
Page 392 - you as she sent you, long ago, South to desert, east to ocean, west to snow, West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides 1 must go Where the fleet of stars is anchored, and the young Star-captains glow.' Such melody and such imagery as this are in the true
Page 476 - digestive medicament had but little pain, and their wounds without inflammation or swelling, having rested fairly well that night; the others, to whom the boiling oil was used, I found feverish, with great pain and swelling about the edges of their wounds. Then I resolved never more to burn thus cruelly poor men with gunshot wounds.