The Quarterly Review, Volume 244John Murray, 1925 |
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Pagina 161
... fog . And now and then most of them were gone away , on what business one never knew , save once , when they ... war- time forget what he saw by day , or fancied in the night ? The train ran into Fife , and I was on the alert lest I should ...
... fog . And now and then most of them were gone away , on what business one never knew , save once , when they ... war- time forget what he saw by day , or fancied in the night ? The train ran into Fife , and I was on the alert lest I should ...
Pagina 166
... War here . None ? Stay ! What craft is that , with the slim funnel and ... war make - up , what can she do ? Ah , wait ! Regard her well ! Men are working in ... fog of early morning has thinned , and now a sad , moist mist hangs over the ...
... War here . None ? Stay ! What craft is that , with the slim funnel and ... war make - up , what can she do ? Ah , wait ! Regard her well ! Men are working in ... fog of early morning has thinned , and now a sad , moist mist hangs over the ...
Pagina 412
... fog of war was peculiarly dense at that time . ' As this is not an uncommon experience in warfare , both by sea and by land , and a factor seldom allowed for in criticism of military leadership , it will be as well to recall the ...
... fog of war was peculiarly dense at that time . ' As this is not an uncommon experience in warfare , both by sea and by land , and a factor seldom allowed for in criticism of military leadership , it will be as well to recall the ...
Pagina 415
... fog of war . The sketch map in the Official History shows that the French Fifth Army on the British right was being forced back by Bülow , leaving the B.E.F. isolated and exposed to the full force of attack on both flanks by Kluck's ...
... fog of war . The sketch map in the Official History shows that the French Fifth Army on the British right was being forced back by Bülow , leaving the B.E.F. isolated and exposed to the full force of attack on both flanks by Kluck's ...
Pagina 416
... Battle of Mons had already been fired , unknown to the higher commanders , and a day of desperate and heavy fighting ... fog of war intervened . Kluck's H.Q. were at Louvain until noon on the 22nd , when they moved to Hal , to be nearer ...
... Battle of Mons had already been fired , unknown to the higher commanders , and a day of desperate and heavy fighting ... fog of war intervened . Kluck's H.Q. were at Louvain until noon on the 22nd , when they moved to Hal , to be nearer ...
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Pagina 212 - This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater; and deliver'd upon the mellowing of occasion: But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.
Pagina 295 - Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain. And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain; And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild, And all which patient toil had reared, and all, Commune with thee had opened out — but flowers Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier In the same coffin, for the self-same grave!
Pagina 288 - This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, such as would have been Most sweet to my remembrance even when age Had dimmed mine eyes to blindness! They, meanwhile, Friends, whom I never more may meet again, On springy heath, along the hill-top edge...
Pagina 289 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree...
Pagina 295 - Thou in bewitching words, with happy heart, Didst chaunt the vision of that Ancient Man, The bright-eyed Mariner, and rueful woes Didst utter of the Lady Christabel...
Pagina 289 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Pagina 291 - Returning that same evening, I got into a metaphysical argument with Wordsworth, while Coleridge was explaining the different notes of the nightingale to his sister, in which we neither of us succeeded in making ourselves perfectly clear and intelligible.
Pagina 59 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Pagina 286 - O the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Pagina 286 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd. That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze. At once the Soul of each, and God of all?