The Quarterly Review, Volume 224William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1915 |
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Page 111
... Abydos to Sestos ; how the first bridge was destroyed by a storm , how Xerxes ' wrath was aroused , how the disobedient Hellespont was scourged with three hundred strokes of the lash , and a pair of fetters let down into the water ...
... Abydos to Sestos ; how the first bridge was destroyed by a storm , how Xerxes ' wrath was aroused , how the disobedient Hellespont was scourged with three hundred strokes of the lash , and a pair of fetters let down into the water ...
Page 112
... Abydos , and called for a sham fight between the ships . ' And seeing all the Hellespont covered with the ships , and all the shores and the plains of Abydos full of men , Xerxes pronounced himself a happy man , and after that he fell ...
... Abydos , and called for a sham fight between the ships . ' And seeing all the Hellespont covered with the ships , and all the shores and the plains of Abydos full of men , Xerxes pronounced himself a happy man , and after that he fell ...
Page 113
... Abydos . The whole episode was again a carefully planned display , only it was in- tended to emphasise the piety and self - restraint of the Greek in contrast with the blasphemous ostentation of the Persian . When Xerxes insulted the ...
... Abydos . The whole episode was again a carefully planned display , only it was in- tended to emphasise the piety and self - restraint of the Greek in contrast with the blasphemous ostentation of the Persian . When Xerxes insulted the ...
Page 114
... Abydos , at the northern end of the Narrows . The third or Turkish method was control by artillery ; and for this purpose the narrowest point in the whole strait was naturally chosen for the two castles of Chanak and Kilid - ul - bahr ...
... Abydos , at the northern end of the Narrows . The third or Turkish method was control by artillery ; and for this purpose the narrowest point in the whole strait was naturally chosen for the two castles of Chanak and Kilid - ul - bahr ...
Page 117
... Abydos ' commanded the traffic of the Straits , so Sestos commanded Abydos itself . Abydos lay low , on the shore and the sloping hillsides ; Sestos was raised on a plateau lying some 300 feet above the sea . The plateau commands a view ...
... Abydos ' commanded the traffic of the Straits , so Sestos commanded Abydos itself . Abydos lay low , on the shore and the sloping hillsides ; Sestos was raised on a plateau lying some 300 feet above the sea . The plateau commands a view ...
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Page 403 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 240 - The trade of neutrals with belligerents in articles not contraband is absolutely free, unless interrupted by blockade; the conveyance by neutrals to belligerents of contraband articles is always unlawful, and such articles may always be seized during transit by sea. Hence, while articles, not contraband...
Page 79 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrests To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha
Page 318 - And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.
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Page 240 - Hence, while articles, not contraband, might be sent to Matamoras and beyond to the rebel region, where the communications were not interrupted by blockade, articles of a contraband character, destined in fact to a State in rebellion, or for the use of the rebel military forces, were liable to capture though primarily destined to Matamoras. We are obliged to conclude that the portion of the cargo which we have characterized as contraband must be condemned.
Page 231 - Article 4 A blockade is not regarded as raised if the blockading force is temporarily withdrawn on account of stress of weather. Article 5 A blockade must be applied impartially to the ships of all nations.
Page 49 - Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world ! " Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth, Matter unformed and void ; darkness profound Covered the abyss ; but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth, Throughout the fluid mass...
Page 413 - Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary...
Page 413 - Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.