The Quarterly Review, Volume 224William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1915 - English literature |
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Page 120
... enemies he had to resist were pressing from the north and the east , not from the west . It may have been a recognition of the uselessness of the fortress that brought it the not very compli- mentary name of Choiridokastron , Pig's ...
... enemies he had to resist were pressing from the north and the east , not from the west . It may have been a recognition of the uselessness of the fortress that brought it the not very compli- mentary name of Choiridokastron , Pig's ...
Page 142
... , as in August last , at the date of the opening of the war , the bulk of the employees and all the managers of the two London branches of the Bank were enemy aliens . Dr Preziosi dealt trenchantly with 142 GERMAN METHODS IN ITALY.
... , as in August last , at the date of the opening of the war , the bulk of the employees and all the managers of the two London branches of the Bank were enemy aliens . Dr Preziosi dealt trenchantly with 142 GERMAN METHODS IN ITALY.
Page 143
... enemy aliens . Dr Preziosi dealt trenchantly with the defence in his second pamphlet , published in April last . Though he possibly overstates the case , in essentials he appears to be right ; but this is not an opportune moment for ...
... enemy aliens . Dr Preziosi dealt trenchantly with the defence in his second pamphlet , published in April last . Though he possibly overstates the case , in essentials he appears to be right ; but this is not an opportune moment for ...
Page 161
... enemy , inefficiency may come from many other causes , among which mental strain stands first . I asked an old veteran , thin , brown and worn from twenty- one days ' continuous fighting in the trenches , what would be the deciding ...
... enemy , inefficiency may come from many other causes , among which mental strain stands first . I asked an old veteran , thin , brown and worn from twenty- one days ' continuous fighting in the trenches , what would be the deciding ...
Page 172
... enemy of Islam , and , like them , submitted only when he could not help it . The title to the caliphate was the sword in the one case as in the other . There was a wide difference , however , between the two dynasties . Mo'awiya had ...
... enemy of Islam , and , like them , submitted only when he could not help it . The title to the caliphate was the sword in the one case as in the other . There was a wide difference , however , between the two dynasties . Mo'awiya had ...
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Page 403 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 240 - The trade of neutrals with belligerents in articles not contraband is absolutely free, unless interrupted by blockade; the conveyance by neutrals to belligerents of contraband articles is always unlawful, and such articles may always be seized during transit by sea. Hence, while articles, not contraband...
Page 79 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrests To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha
Page 318 - And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Page 316 - And none to pity thee ! . . . Thou little thing That curlest in my arms, what sweet scents cling All round thy neck! Beloved; can it be All nothing, that this bosom cradled thee And fostered; all the weary nights, wherethrough I watched upon thy sickness, till I grew Wasted with watching? Kiss me. This one time; Not ever again. Put up thine arms, and climb About my neck: now, kiss me, lips to lips.
Page 240 - Hence, while articles, not contraband, might be sent to Matamoras and beyond to the rebel region, where the communications were not interrupted by blockade, articles of a contraband character, destined in fact to a State in rebellion, or for the use of the rebel military forces, were liable to capture though primarily destined to Matamoras. We are obliged to conclude that the portion of the cargo which we have characterized as contraband must be condemned.
Page 231 - Article 4 A blockade is not regarded as raised if the blockading force is temporarily withdrawn on account of stress of weather. Article 5 A blockade must be applied impartially to the ships of all nations.
Page 49 - Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world ! " Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth, Matter unformed and void ; darkness profound Covered the abyss ; but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth, Throughout the fluid mass...
Page 413 - Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary...
Page 413 - Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.