The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 181A. Constable, 1895 |
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Pagina 4
... side , France on the other , and China on the third " have steadily advanced . " ' It is quite true that the gradual approach towards our frontier of Russia from the north - west and of France from the south - east has profoundly ...
... side , France on the other , and China on the third " have steadily advanced . " ' It is quite true that the gradual approach towards our frontier of Russia from the north - west and of France from the south - east has profoundly ...
Pagina 5
... side , abstaining at the same time from all avoidable interference in the interior concerns of the tribes or the rulers . But this broad rule is easier to lay down generally than to carry out in particulars . For in the first place the ...
... side , abstaining at the same time from all avoidable interference in the interior concerns of the tribes or the rulers . But this broad rule is easier to lay down generally than to carry out in particulars . For in the first place the ...
Pagina 6
... side , where a belt of independent tribal highlands is interposed between the Affghan kingdom and British India . In default of any such recognised line the tribes had been naturally prone to play off the British authorities against the ...
... side , where a belt of independent tribal highlands is interposed between the Affghan kingdom and British India . In default of any such recognised line the tribes had been naturally prone to play off the British authorities against the ...
Pagina 9
... sides ; and they desired to come to an arrangement by which a permanent barrier might be established between the posses- sions of Great Britain and France in the Indo - Chinese peninsula . Such an arrangement would be advantageous to ...
... sides ; and they desired to come to an arrangement by which a permanent barrier might be established between the posses- sions of Great Britain and France in the Indo - Chinese peninsula . Such an arrangement would be advantageous to ...
Pagina 10
... side of the river , and that speedy action on the part of France is necessary to secure for her a share in the contemplated annexation . ' It is not worth while even to summarise the series of letters , reports , and somewhat fruitless ...
... side of the river , and that speedy action on the part of France is necessary to secure for her a share in the contemplated annexation . ' It is not worth while even to summarise the series of letters , reports , and somewhat fruitless ...
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Pagina 491 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Pagina 491 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Pagina 491 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Pagina 490 - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Pagina 491 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How 'dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho
Pagina 527 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast...
Pagina 506 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Pagina 259 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed in terminating the deadly animosity that now separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into the hostile divisions of French and English.
Pagina 490 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.