The Quarterly Review, Volume 241William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1924 |
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Pagina 8
... become more acute as time goes on , for I am a firm believer in the usefulness and in the future of the League , so long as its affairs are conducted with wisdom and prudence . The League is still very young and lacking in experience ...
... become more acute as time goes on , for I am a firm believer in the usefulness and in the future of the League , so long as its affairs are conducted with wisdom and prudence . The League is still very young and lacking in experience ...
Pagina 15
... no reason to doubt its truth . The explanation , of course , is simple . The habit of hiding becomes so fixed in the young birds that they adhere to it long after their wings have grown . B 2 GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL 15.
... no reason to doubt its truth . The explanation , of course , is simple . The habit of hiding becomes so fixed in the young birds that they adhere to it long after their wings have grown . B 2 GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL 15.
Pagina 18
... become senti- nels automatically ; but as for any deliberate attempt at organisation , such theories originate from fairy tales . Any attempt to humanise Nature leads inevitably to a false conception of the whole scheme of things in the ...
... become senti- nels automatically ; but as for any deliberate attempt at organisation , such theories originate from fairy tales . Any attempt to humanise Nature leads inevitably to a false conception of the whole scheme of things in the ...
Pagina 19
... becoming more and more hopelessly entangled , pochards almost invariably ' fly back , ' and heedless of the fowler , retrace their way down the pipe and out to safety . A drop - net across the passage is sometimes tried , I am told ...
... becoming more and more hopelessly entangled , pochards almost invariably ' fly back , ' and heedless of the fowler , retrace their way down the pipe and out to safety . A drop - net across the passage is sometimes tried , I am told ...
Pagina 20
... becomes stationary , which means that the exasperated animal is facing its tormentors . The clamour increases , and ... become a little too plentiful at times . A white ferret is taken out and tethered by a long line in some open place ...
... becomes stationary , which means that the exasperated animal is facing its tormentors . The clamour increases , and ... become a little too plentiful at times . A white ferret is taken out and tethered by a long line in some open place ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 262 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Pagina 288 - And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full...
Pagina 263 - Play up! play up! and play the game!' The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke; The Catling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!
Pagina 347 - A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il ya plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.
Pagina 284 - Sleepless! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep! by any stealth: So do not let me wear...
Pagina 362 - The nobler a soul is, the more objects of compassion it hath.
Pagina 362 - Of that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love...
Pagina 280 - Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from Day's garish eye, While the bee with honeyed thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such concert as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep...
Pagina 279 - As bees In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters ; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs...
Pagina 320 - Of the attempts hitherto made to define or explain an element, none satisfy the demands of the human intellect. The text books tell us that an element is ' a body which has not been decomposed ;' that it is ' a something to which we can add, but from which we can take nothing,' or ' a body which increases in weight with every chemical change.