The Quarterly Review, Volume 244John Murray, 1925 - English literature |
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... Sudan , His Majesty's Government reserved those matters to their own discretion , and the status quo remained intact in regard to them . Such principles ' tallied closely with the recommendations vainly pressed on the British Government ...
... Sudan , His Majesty's Government reserved those matters to their own discretion , and the status quo remained intact in regard to them . Such principles ' tallied closely with the recommendations vainly pressed on the British Government ...
Page 147
... Sudan , on which no British Government could yield . And it was in the Sudan that the worst storm clouds were gathering . Anomalous as had been the status of Egypt under British occupation , that of the Sudan , since Kitchener finally ...
... Sudan , on which no British Government could yield . And it was in the Sudan that the worst storm clouds were gathering . Anomalous as had been the status of Egypt under British occupation , that of the Sudan , since Kitchener finally ...
Page 148
... Sudan Civil Service has been created and recruited in England . The number of Egytians in civil employ has been relatively small , and natives of the Sudan have been drafted in as fast as they could be trained up - chiefly in the Gordon ...
... Sudan Civil Service has been created and recruited in England . The number of Egytians in civil employ has been relatively small , and natives of the Sudan have been drafted in as fast as they could be trained up - chiefly in the Gordon ...
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... Sudan to full Egyptian sovereignty , and it was loudly pressed when a great controversy broke out over the Sudan irrigation schemes , and the Egyptians , backed by some British experts , alleged that they might danger- ously curtail ...
... Sudan to full Egyptian sovereignty , and it was loudly pressed when a great controversy broke out over the Sudan irrigation schemes , and the Egyptians , backed by some British experts , alleged that they might danger- ously curtail ...
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... Sudan and other parts of Africa the anti - British literature , which Moscow schools of Eastern propaganda turn out in large quantities , specially adapted for use in Mohamedan countries . But though the Sudan authorities had their ...
... Sudan and other parts of Africa the anti - British literature , which Moscow schools of Eastern propaganda turn out in large quantities , specially adapted for use in Mohamedan countries . But though the Sudan authorities had their ...
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Page 212 - This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater; and deliver'd upon the mellowing of occasion: But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.
Page 295 - Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain. And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain; And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild, And all which patient toil had reared, and all, Commune with thee had opened out — but flowers Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier In the same coffin, for the self-same grave!
Page 288 - This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, such as would have been Most sweet to my remembrance even when age Had dimmed mine eyes to blindness! They, meanwhile, Friends, whom I never more may meet again, On springy heath, along the hill-top edge...
Page 289 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree...
Page 295 - Thou in bewitching words, with happy heart, Didst chaunt the vision of that Ancient Man, The bright-eyed Mariner, and rueful woes Didst utter of the Lady Christabel...
Page 289 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 291 - Returning that same evening, I got into a metaphysical argument with Wordsworth, while Coleridge was explaining the different notes of the nightingale to his sister, in which we neither of us succeeded in making ourselves perfectly clear and intelligible.
Page 59 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Page 286 - O the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Page 286 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd. That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze. At once the Soul of each, and God of all?