The London Mercury, Volume 16Field Press Limited, 1927 - English literature |
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... described as " The Holy Family in an extended sense . UBLIC opinion which is , after all ( despite Mr. Baldwin ) the fairy godmother of slang , has dropped the phrase " Augustan Books " in favour of the easier " Six- pennies . " The ...
... described as " The Holy Family in an extended sense . UBLIC opinion which is , after all ( despite Mr. Baldwin ) the fairy godmother of slang , has dropped the phrase " Augustan Books " in favour of the easier " Six- pennies . " The ...
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... described as the Honourable Sarah Ponsonby in the Dictionary of National Biography ) was almost certainly born in 1754 , ten years after Lady Eleanor . Her father was Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby , of Ashgrove , M.P. , whose second wife ...
... described as the Honourable Sarah Ponsonby in the Dictionary of National Biography ) was almost certainly born in 1754 , ten years after Lady Eleanor . Her father was Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby , of Ashgrove , M.P. , whose second wife ...
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... described above contains more than sixteen or seventeen strokes ; most contain under ten . The fourth , of Phonetic stage , briefly mentioned in the previous para- graph , is perhaps the most extensive of the six divisions . The ...
... described above contains more than sixteen or seventeen strokes ; most contain under ten . The fourth , of Phonetic stage , briefly mentioned in the previous para- graph , is perhaps the most extensive of the six divisions . The ...
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... described with great vividness and humour . As a work of art it takes a high place in German prose . In 1898 appeared a prose work by Spitteler , entitled Lachende Wahrheiten ( Laughing Truths ) . This consists of essays on literature ...
... described with great vividness and humour . As a work of art it takes a high place in German prose . In 1898 appeared a prose work by Spitteler , entitled Lachende Wahrheiten ( Laughing Truths ) . This consists of essays on literature ...
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... described , but I know the desert a little , and the Arabs , and I do not believe that Lawrence " invented " anything in the crude sense of the word . Again , why should he ? He had eyes to see - that is all . This is how his battles go ...
... described , but I know the desert a little , and the Arabs , and I do not believe that Lawrence " invented " anything in the crude sense of the word . Again , why should he ? He had eyes to see - that is all . This is how his battles go ...
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Page 167 - There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not!) Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. No rays from the holy Heaven come down On the long night-time of that town...
Page 347 - Did Quattrocento finger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind And took a mess of shadows for its meat?
Page 348 - Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul. Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?
Page 617 - Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man.
Page 189 - I never was attached to that great sect Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion...
Page 389 - We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show...
Page 622 - Church preferment;' and in another place (p. 275) says that 'he often lays down with great confidence what turns out afterwards to be wrong.' In the House of Lords he once said that ' he did not know what the mass of the people in any country had to do with the laws but to obey them.
Page 235 - You could not tell, and yet it looked as if The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff, The cliff in being backed by continent; It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
Page 615 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 233 - The same leaves over and over again! They fall from giving shade above To make one texture of faded brown And fit the earth like a leather glove. Before the leaves can mount again To fill the trees with another shade, They must go down past things coming up. They must go down into the dark decayed.