The Quarterly Review, Volum 241John Murray, 1924 |
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... centuries may have passed since greylegs reared their enormous nests on the lowlands of England , in all probability they would be there to - day were suitable conditions available . The same principle applies to the wilder districts of ...
... centuries may have passed since greylegs reared their enormous nests on the lowlands of England , in all probability they would be there to - day were suitable conditions available . The same principle applies to the wilder districts of ...
Pàgina 10
... century of independence can make them . An adult cock sprung from a strain which has been self - supporting for several generations is no mean quarry . When shooting a year or two ago near Sprydon Forest it took a party of three a solid ...
... century of independence can make them . An adult cock sprung from a strain which has been self - supporting for several generations is no mean quarry . When shooting a year or two ago near Sprydon Forest it took a party of three a solid ...
Pàgina 23
... centuries of history . Yet of the three factors in the agricultural industry - land , capital , and man — the human ... century behind . To the citizen the rural population is a mystery ; he scarcely conceives of rural interests as ...
... centuries of history . Yet of the three factors in the agricultural industry - land , capital , and man — the human ... century behind . To the citizen the rural population is a mystery ; he scarcely conceives of rural interests as ...
Pàgina 24
... century progress that national life should be rotting at its vital roots . For lovers of the country its villages have a peculiar fascination . But it is a dispiriting reflexion that , albeit in dependence , squalor , poverty , and ...
... century progress that national life should be rotting at its vital roots . For lovers of the country its villages have a peculiar fascination . But it is a dispiriting reflexion that , albeit in dependence , squalor , poverty , and ...
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... century foretold that ' thorn and horn will make England forlorn , ' or , in other words , that pasture fields enclosed by hedges , and stock farming , would strip England of her rural population . East Hendred has so far escaped these ...
... century foretold that ' thorn and horn will make England forlorn , ' or , in other words , that pasture fields enclosed by hedges , and stock farming , would strip England of her rural population . East Hendred has so far escaped these ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 262 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Pàgina 288 - And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full...
Pàgina 263 - Play up! play up! and play the game!' The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke; The Catling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!
Pàgina 347 - A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il ya plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.
Pàgina 284 - Sleepless! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep! by any stealth: So do not let me wear...
Pàgina 362 - The nobler a soul is, the more objects of compassion it hath.
Pàgina 362 - Of that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love...
Pàgina 280 - Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from Day's garish eye, While the bee with honeyed thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such concert as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep...
Pàgina 279 - As bees In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters ; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs...
Pàgina 320 - Of the attempts hitherto made to define or explain an element, none satisfy the demands of the human intellect. The text books tell us that an element is ' a body which has not been decomposed ;' that it is ' a something to which we can add, but from which we can take nothing,' or ' a body which increases in weight with every chemical change.