The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 - English literature |
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... German Neighbour 92 the War 7. War Relief and War Service 8. German Methods of Penetration in Belgium before and during • 9. The Censorship and its Effects 111 130 148 10. British Diplomacy in the Near East . 164 11. Belgian Refugees in ...
... German Neighbour 92 the War 7. War Relief and War Service 8. German Methods of Penetration in Belgium before and during • 9. The Censorship and its Effects 111 130 148 10. British Diplomacy in the Near East . 164 11. Belgian Refugees in ...
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... German Neighbour 92 7. War Relief and War Service 111 the War 8. German Methods of Penetration in Belgium before and during • 9. The Censorship and its Effects 10. British Diplomacy in the Near East 130 148 164 11. Belgian Refugees in ...
... German Neighbour 92 7. War Relief and War Service 111 the War 8. German Methods of Penetration in Belgium before and during • 9. The Censorship and its Effects 10. British Diplomacy in the Near East 130 148 164 11. Belgian Refugees in ...
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... German an imprudent question about the Navy , if you are lucky he will refer you to the German Admiralty ; if you are unlucky , you will probably be the guest of the Government the next day , if not sooner . If you take his advice and ...
... German an imprudent question about the Navy , if you are lucky he will refer you to the German Admiralty ; if you are unlucky , you will probably be the guest of the Government the next day , if not sooner . If you take his advice and ...
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... German drawings . The maps ac- companying these articles , viz . the general map , including the Kiel Canal ; those of the German coast defences on the North Sea and Heligoland ; the large - scale plan of Wilhelmshaven , and the map of ...
... German drawings . The maps ac- companying these articles , viz . the general map , including the Kiel Canal ; those of the German coast defences on the North Sea and Heligoland ; the large - scale plan of Wilhelmshaven , and the map of ...
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... German North Sea coast - in short , a verit- able banquet of German Navy delicacies , with , as pièce de resistance , a trip through the Kiel Canal . And this is what I have now to tell you about . ( 2 ) GERMANY'S COAST DEFENCES . From ...
... German North Sea coast - in short , a verit- able banquet of German Navy delicacies , with , as pièce de resistance , a trip through the Kiel Canal . And this is what I have now to tell you about . ( 2 ) GERMANY'S COAST DEFENCES . From ...
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Page 130 - eyes to England's faults, about which his Sonnets use harder words than they ever use about her enemy: ' Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more; The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household lawn.
Page 124 - fiery heart' and 'tumultuous harmony' to prefer the stockdove's song, ' Slow to begin and never ending ; Of serious faith and inward glee; That was the song—the song for me !' yet the ' glee' remained, if now more inward than outward ; and so did the poet's faith in the heart of man
Page 128 - There ! that dusky spot Beneath thee, that is England; there she lies. Blessings be on you both! One hope, one lot, One life, one glory! I with many a fear For my dear Country, many heartfelt sighs, Among men who do not love her, linger here.
Page 131 - For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 131 - the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child 1
Page 402 - 1 grow old. ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind ? Do I dare to eat a
Page 131 - art Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unnlial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 402 - I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.' Here, surely, is the reduction to absurdity of that
Page 392 - you as she sent you, long ago, South to desert, east to ocean, west to snow, West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides 1 must go Where the fleet of stars is anchored, and the young Star-captains glow.' Such melody and such imagery as this are in the true
Page 476 - digestive medicament had but little pain, and their wounds without inflammation or swelling, having rested fairly well that night; the others, to whom the boiling oil was used, I found feverish, with great pain and swelling about the edges of their wounds. Then I resolved never more to burn thus cruelly poor men with gunshot wounds.