The Quarterly Review, Volume 219William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1913 |
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Pagina 1
... criticisms , the care and research devoted to its production , easily account for the reluctance of writers to challenge comparison with a competitor of a reputation so deservedly high . Since Napier wrote an enormous amount of fresh ...
... criticisms , the care and research devoted to its production , easily account for the reluctance of writers to challenge comparison with a competitor of a reputation so deservedly high . Since Napier wrote an enormous amount of fresh ...
Pagina 2
... critics ; it must come up to the standard by which scientific histories are judged , and it must also pass muster on the professional side . Civilians , out of touch with military life and thought and writing without experi- ence of war ...
... critics ; it must come up to the standard by which scientific histories are judged , and it must also pass muster on the professional side . Civilians , out of touch with military life and thought and writing without experi- ence of war ...
Pagina 4
... criticisms are sane and reasonable ; there is no attempt to prove Wellington infallible ; and the new sources from which he has drawn have naturally enabled him to clear up many controversial points . If his book is open to criticism ...
... criticisms are sane and reasonable ; there is no attempt to prove Wellington infallible ; and the new sources from which he has drawn have naturally enabled him to clear up many controversial points . If his book is open to criticism ...
Pagina 17
... critic has done ( ' Imperial Strategy , ' pp . 170-1 ) , that the Lines were of no value to Wellington is not merely par adoxical , but almost too ridiculous to need refutation ; at any rate , neither Prof. Oman nor Mr Fortescue has ...
... critic has done ( ' Imperial Strategy , ' pp . 170-1 ) , that the Lines were of no value to Wellington is not merely par adoxical , but almost too ridiculous to need refutation ; at any rate , neither Prof. Oman nor Mr Fortescue has ...
Pagina 18
... criticisms and con- clusions are even more convincing ; and the narrative moves on no less lucidly or briskly . Barrosa , Fuentes de Oñoro and Albuera give him a splendid theme : his treatment is worthy of it . Masséna's tenacity in ...
... criticisms and con- clusions are even more convincing ; and the narrative moves on no less lucidly or briskly . Barrosa , Fuentes de Oñoro and Albuera give him a splendid theme : his treatment is worthy of it . Masséna's tenacity in ...
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Pagina 173 - I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
Pagina 171 - Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.
Pagina 177 - He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!
Pagina 175 - Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine of various colours and fragrance, filling this earthen vessel to the brim. My world will light its hundred different lamps with thy flame and place them before the altar of thy temple.
Pagina 242 - ... flowers, which in that heavenly air Bloom the year long ! Nay, barren are those mountains and spent the streams : Our song is the voice of desire, that haunts our dreams, A throe of the heart, Whose pining visions dim, forbidden hopes profound, No dying cadence nor long sigh can sound, For all our art. Alone, aloud in the raptured ear of men We pour our dark nocturnal secret ; and then, As night is withdrawn From these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May, Dream, while the innumerable...
Pagina 203 - Tu excitas, ut laudare te delectet; quia fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te.
Pagina 259 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years. But it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Pagina 141 - The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us !" writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Pagina 177 - Deliverance ? Where is this deliverance to be found ? Our Master Himself has joyfully taken upon Him the bonds of creation ; He is bound with us all for ever.
Pagina 483 - Statement exhibiting the moral and material progress and condition of India during the year 1870-71 (ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 13th June 1872).