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 3
... difficulties of soldiers . The importance of military history is much more generally recognised , and the attention which Oxford and Cam- bridge devote to it shows how far the reaction has spread . Indeed , perhaps the most considerable ...
... difficulties of soldiers . The importance of military history is much more generally recognised , and the attention which Oxford and Cam- bridge devote to it shows how far the reaction has spread . Indeed , perhaps the most considerable ...
Pagina 9
... difficulties of the French , ' he had grasped the fundamental truth that the more ground the French hold down , the weaker will they be at any given point . ' ' The Emperor could not send to Spain a force sufficient to hold down every ...
... difficulties of the French , ' he had grasped the fundamental truth that the more ground the French hold down , the weaker will they be at any given point . ' ' The Emperor could not send to Spain a force sufficient to hold down every ...
Pagina 16
... difficulty in refuting Napier's assertion that the British were in a perilous position at Bussaco on the evening of September 25 , that if the French had attacked at once they would have found half the defenders not yet in position ...
... difficulty in refuting Napier's assertion that the British were in a perilous position at Bussaco on the evening of September 25 , that if the French had attacked at once they would have found half the defenders not yet in position ...
Pagina 17
... difficulties and privations , he main- tained his position for nearly five months more . It was a contest of endurance , but a contest to which there could be but one termination . Of course , the Lines alone did not check Masséna ...
... difficulties and privations , he main- tained his position for nearly five months more . It was a contest of endurance , but a contest to which there could be but one termination . Of course , the Lines alone did not check Masséna ...
Pagina 25
... difficulties of the task . M. Fournier thinks he had no conception of the terrible significance of the guerillas . ' Prof. Oman finds the fundamental error which wrecked Masséna's expedition in the Emperor's refusal to reckon the ...
... difficulties of the task . M. Fournier thinks he had no conception of the terrible significance of the guerillas . ' Prof. Oman finds the fundamental error which wrecked Masséna's expedition in the Emperor's refusal to reckon the ...
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Populaire passages
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).