The Quarterly Review, Volume 235William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1921 |
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... poetic beauty has not hitherto been made easily accessible may surprise some who now read it for the first time . • This task of translating the principal Odes in Leopardi's ' Canti ' being now completed , the writer wishes to thank Dr ...
... poetic beauty has not hitherto been made easily accessible may surprise some who now read it for the first time . • This task of translating the principal Odes in Leopardi's ' Canti ' being now completed , the writer wishes to thank Dr ...
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... poet's death , while he was staying at a little house in the country situated on a spur of the mountain overlooking Torre del Greco and the sea . ' And men loved darkness rather than light .'- John iii , 19 . Here on the arid spine Of ...
... poet's death , while he was staying at a little house in the country situated on a spur of the mountain overlooking Torre del Greco and the sea . ' And men loved darkness rather than light .'- John iii , 19 . Here on the arid spine Of ...
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... poet . As a matter of fact , he had one favourite pursuit only- hunting , to which he remained faithful to the end of his life . Apart from this , he sought in the society of his friend Frau Schratt the relief and recreation in which ...
... poet . As a matter of fact , he had one favourite pursuit only- hunting , to which he remained faithful to the end of his life . Apart from this , he sought in the society of his friend Frau Schratt the relief and recreation in which ...
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... poetic beauty . The knights vie with one another and deem it not unseemly to boast of their deeds and their possessions . Vladimir and his spouse , the fair princess Apraxin , bear a certain resem- blance to King Arthur and Guinevere ...
... poetic beauty . The knights vie with one another and deem it not unseemly to boast of their deeds and their possessions . Vladimir and his spouse , the fair princess Apraxin , bear a certain resem- blance to King Arthur and Guinevere ...
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... poet . We have now reached the critical period of transition in politics and literature , and of open conflict between the forces of reaction and progress . It is a remarkable feature of Russian Liberalism that it has , as a rule ...
... poet . We have now reached the critical period of transition in politics and literature , and of open conflict between the forces of reaction and progress . It is a remarkable feature of Russian Liberalism that it has , as a rule ...
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Page 273 - What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power. Joy, virtuous Lady! Joy that ne'er was given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy, Lady!
Page 10 - By it they understand that compensation will be made by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea, and from the air.
Page 13 - The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts the responsibility of herself and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
Page 19 - State further accepts and agrees to embody in a Treaty with the said Powers such provisions as they may deem necessary to protect freedom of transit and equitable treatment of the commerce of other nations.
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Page 57 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 192 - Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle In the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own countries ; The High Contracting Parties, moved by sentiments of justice and humanity, as well as by the desire to secure the permanent peace of the world, agree to the following : — i.