The Quarterly Review, Volume 221William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1914 - English literature |
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... , a rebuke to facile writers who think a happy phrase or two enough to carry off a poem . There was nothing he did not write Vol . 221 .-- No . 440 . D -dramas , stories , lyrics , and even a sort MODERN FORCES IN GERMAN LITERATURE 33.
... , a rebuke to facile writers who think a happy phrase or two enough to carry off a poem . There was nothing he did not write Vol . 221 .-- No . 440 . D -dramas , stories , lyrics , and even a sort MODERN FORCES IN GERMAN LITERATURE 33.
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... carry him further ; he will grasp at misfortune itself if he can make use of it and thereby make good his claim to it . ' That is certainly the right stuff for great poetry . Yet Ricarda Huch is hardly great . Aus der Triumphgasse ' and ...
... carry him further ; he will grasp at misfortune itself if he can make use of it and thereby make good his claim to it . ' That is certainly the right stuff for great poetry . Yet Ricarda Huch is hardly great . Aus der Triumphgasse ' and ...
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... carrying trade , satisfied with the manner in which they are treated . Whether the hetero- geneous functions of the Board of Trade are worth the half - million per annum which is the total cost of this somewhat cumbrous branch of ...
... carrying trade , satisfied with the manner in which they are treated . Whether the hetero- geneous functions of the Board of Trade are worth the half - million per annum which is the total cost of this somewhat cumbrous branch of ...
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... carrying out a hide - bound system . Dickens's account , in Little Dorrit , ' of the experiences of Daniel Doyce and Arthur Clennam , is not a myth of the imagination . The recent Army Canteen scandals are only too clear a symptom of an ...
... carrying out a hide - bound system . Dickens's account , in Little Dorrit , ' of the experiences of Daniel Doyce and Arthur Clennam , is not a myth of the imagination . The recent Army Canteen scandals are only too clear a symptom of an ...
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... carry out instructions ; but the gravamen of the charge against the Education Department is that a cast- iron system has been devised , to which local circumstances must bend . A long series of Revised Codes and rules , and regulations ...
... carry out instructions ; but the gravamen of the charge against the Education Department is that a cast- iron system has been devised , to which local circumstances must bend . A long series of Revised Codes and rules , and regulations ...
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Page 507 - I say to the Government that they may tomorrow withdraw every one of their troops from Ireland. I say that the coast of Ireland will be defended from foreign invasion by her armed sons, and for this purpose armed Nationalist Catholics in the South will be only too glad to join arms with the armed Protestant Ulstermen in the North.
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Page 231 - I beg to direct your attention to Africa : I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that country, which is now open ; do not let it be shut again ! I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity ; do you carry out the work which I have begun. I LEAVE IT WITH YOU !" In a prefatory letter prefixed to the volume entitled Dr.
Page 34 - He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange the human lot; How warm the tints of Life; how hot Are Love and Hate; And what makes Truth divine, and what Makes Manhood great.