The Living Age, Volume 213E. Littell & Company, 1897 |
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... , 823 · 174 NATIONAL REVIEW . 227 Hidden Dangers of Cycling , 367 " The Other Grace , " 110 125 Gibbon's Autobiography , ST . JAMES GAZETTE . The Story THE EASTERN CRISIS By W E Glad- stone, THE CRETAN QUESTION By Francis de Pressensé,
... , 823 · 174 NATIONAL REVIEW . 227 Hidden Dangers of Cycling , 367 " The Other Grace , " 110 125 Gibbon's Autobiography , ST . JAMES GAZETTE . The Story THE EASTERN CRISIS By W E Glad- stone, THE CRETAN QUESTION By Francis de Pressensé,
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... Question , 89 SPECTATOR . France and Russia in China , Waiting , 123 The True Nature of " Falsetto , " The Limits of Biography , Mr. Herbert Spencer and Lord Salis- bury , on Evolution , The Difficulties of Religious Poetry , The Dream ...
... Question , 89 SPECTATOR . France and Russia in China , Waiting , 123 The True Nature of " Falsetto , " The Limits of Biography , Mr. Herbert Spencer and Lord Salis- bury , on Evolution , The Difficulties of Religious Poetry , The Dream ...
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... question until the murder of Cavagnari . Lord Roberts expresses the misgivings he felt at the time at our resorting under the circumstances to negotiation before we had inspired the warlike Afghans with a sufficient sense of defeat to ...
... question until the murder of Cavagnari . Lord Roberts expresses the misgivings he felt at the time at our resorting under the circumstances to negotiation before we had inspired the warlike Afghans with a sufficient sense of defeat to ...
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... questions of mili- tary administration and military states- manship . The first practical question was , how to deal with Afghanistan now that we had got it . Withdrawal was felt to be out of the question until the objects of the war ...
... questions of mili- tary administration and military states- manship . The first practical question was , how to deal with Afghanistan now that we had got it . Withdrawal was felt to be out of the question until the objects of the war ...
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... question is peculiar . Transactions- such only for the moment I am content to call them - have been occurring in the East at short intervals during the last two years of such a nature as to stir our common humanity from its innermost ...
... question is peculiar . Transactions- such only for the moment I am content to call them - have been occurring in the East at short intervals during the last two years of such a nature as to stir our common humanity from its innermost ...
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Page 283 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Page 293 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Page 205 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 291 - To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Page 291 - IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.
Page 269 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
Page 542 - Corydon would kiss her then,. She said, maids must kiss no men, Till they did for good and all ; Then she made the shepherd- call • All the heavens to witness truth Never loved a truer youth. Thus with many a pretty oath, Yea and nay, and faith and troth, Such as...
Page 205 - Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood, If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Page 227 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 93 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.