The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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... represented in the Homeric poems . Further , the prehistoric chronology which it was possible to construct , partly with the help of objects which had been imported from Egypt to the Egean , indicated that Mycena and Mycenæan Troy ...
... represented in the Homeric poems . Further , the prehistoric chronology which it was possible to construct , partly with the help of objects which had been imported from Egypt to the Egean , indicated that Mycena and Mycenæan Troy ...
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... represent four trade routes leading straight to what were the chief centres of trade in the early days of Greek colonisa- tion , to Miletus , Amphipolis , Cyzicus , Sinope . ' The in- ference is that Troy was a great commercial centre ...
... represent four trade routes leading straight to what were the chief centres of trade in the early days of Greek colonisa- tion , to Miletus , Amphipolis , Cyzicus , Sinope . ' The in- ference is that Troy was a great commercial centre ...
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... represented them as the original makers of Greece , who , descending from the north towards the beginning of the second millennium , occupied the peninsula , at that time entirely in the hands of the non - Hellenic Pelasgians . In ...
... represented them as the original makers of Greece , who , descending from the north towards the beginning of the second millennium , occupied the peninsula , at that time entirely in the hands of the non - Hellenic Pelasgians . In ...
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... represented in Homer . Mr Leaf con- ceives them as a small 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 ...
... represented in Homer . Mr Leaf con- ceives them as a small 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 ...
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... represents him as putting to the steersman are not the idle ones of a passenger merely curious about navigation ... representing the king as sent on a mission to the king of Parthia , of which we hear no more . 6 Passing Icaria and Samos ...
... represents him as putting to the steersman are not the idle ones of a passenger merely curious about navigation ... representing the king as sent on a mission to the king of Parthia , of which we hear no more . 6 Passing Icaria and Samos ...
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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.