The Quarterly Review, Volume 244John Murray, 1925 - English literature |
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Page 302
... retreat of the main body of the ice - sheet beyond the Arctic shores . That retreat was necessarily gradual , so that the terms ' Glacial ' and ' Post - glacial ' apply to different epochs in different American localities . Thus the ...
... retreat of the main body of the ice - sheet beyond the Arctic shores . That retreat was necessarily gradual , so that the terms ' Glacial ' and ' Post - glacial ' apply to different epochs in different American localities . Thus the ...
Page 303
... retreat of the glacial ice from middle North America . ' So far , no definite evidence has been gathered which seriously militates against the conclusion , and until archæological data of a trustworthy nature are forthcoming , it must ...
... retreat of the glacial ice from middle North America . ' So far , no definite evidence has been gathered which seriously militates against the conclusion , and until archæological data of a trustworthy nature are forthcoming , it must ...
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... retreat in the last resort . From the gateway there stretches into the sea , about a mile off , a weir , containing in the middle a dock large enough to accommodate an ocean- going craft , by the aid of which the garrison could , if ...
... retreat in the last resort . From the gateway there stretches into the sea , about a mile off , a weir , containing in the middle a dock large enough to accommodate an ocean- going craft , by the aid of which the garrison could , if ...
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... retreat . She must stand and make good her claims or else be driven in ignominy across the narrow Straits , leaving her place to Italy . The disaster of Melilla brought on the crisis . Seem- ingly it was one of those unforeseen strokes ...
... retreat . She must stand and make good her claims or else be driven in ignominy across the narrow Straits , leaving her place to Italy . The disaster of Melilla brought on the crisis . Seem- ingly it was one of those unforeseen strokes ...
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Art . 12. — SIR H. SMITH - DORRIEN AND THE MONS RETREAT . 1. 1914. By Field - Marshal Viscount French of Ypres . Constable , 1919 . 2. The March on Paris and the Battle of the Marne , 1914 . By Alexander von Kluck , Generaloberst ...
Art . 12. — SIR H. SMITH - DORRIEN AND THE MONS RETREAT . 1. 1914. By Field - Marshal Viscount French of Ypres . Constable , 1919 . 2. The March on Paris and the Battle of the Marne , 1914 . By Alexander von Kluck , Generaloberst ...
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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?