Littell's Living Age, Volume 286Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1915 - Literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 33
... perhaps , is the inevitable fate of a small and bi - lingual nation . Yet all these years Belgium , rich in material things , has been rich also in artistic and literary endeavor , and , above all , she has possessed a poet of the ...
... perhaps , is the inevitable fate of a small and bi - lingual nation . Yet all these years Belgium , rich in material things , has been rich also in artistic and literary endeavor , and , above all , she has possessed a poet of the ...
Page 42
... perhaps M'sieur is not of the faith ; she would hardly feel the pain -indeed , she would have entered into the blessedness of the Lord . " I smiled and looked at the face of the old priest , lit with the fervency of his belief ; and ...
... perhaps M'sieur is not of the faith ; she would hardly feel the pain -indeed , she would have entered into the blessedness of the Lord . " I smiled and looked at the face of the old priest , lit with the fervency of his belief ; and ...
Page 48
... Perhaps the Ar- rageois themselves have not yet recov- ered from the attentions of their fel- low - citizens , Robespierre and Lebon , at the time of the Terror . I do not think it could have surprised anyone who knows Arras to hear of ...
... Perhaps the Ar- rageois themselves have not yet recov- ered from the attentions of their fel- low - citizens , Robespierre and Lebon , at the time of the Terror . I do not think it could have surprised anyone who knows Arras to hear of ...
Page 61
... perhaps when it was first made six or eight months ago a flavor of national prejudice and self- righteousness . It is now by consent of the world merely a truism . ex- From these considerations there fol- lows a conclusion which many ...
... perhaps when it was first made six or eight months ago a flavor of national prejudice and self- righteousness . It is now by consent of the world merely a truism . ex- From these considerations there fol- lows a conclusion which many ...
Page 69
... perhaps the clearest proof of Italy's desire to come to a settlement . It must also be remembered that they were formulated by a triplicist , Baron Son- nino . The proposed cession of terri- tory affects only a portion of those ...
... perhaps the clearest proof of Italy's desire to come to a settlement . It must also be remembered that they were formulated by a triplicist , Baron Son- nino . The proposed cession of terri- tory affects only a portion of those ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Allies American army asked Austria beautiful Belgium Billy Sunday British Bryan Buldoo called Captain Falconer Caroline Caroline Gordon century child Church Dardanelles dear death East Prussia Emily Brontë enemy England English eyes face fact familiar quotations feel felt fighting fire force France French friends Galicia German girl give Government guns hand heart Helpstone human Italy knew Lady Wendover land less looked Louvain Lusitania Maryvonne means Mélanie ment military mind moral nation nature neutral never night officer once Palestine passed peace Pierre poems poet poetry political Pomm present Richard Barham Rose Russians secret seemed Serbia ships side Slaney social soldier soul spirit story submarine tell things Thomas Atkins thought tion to-day told Trollope troops turned verse Vistula voice whole woman women words young
Popular passages
Page 444 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer; 'Piper, pipe that song again.
Page 444 - I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not...
Page 108 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Page 600 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 401 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 388 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Page 297 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 607 - March would constitute, were its provisions to be actually carried into effect as they stand, a practical assertion of unlimited belligerent rights over neutral commerce within the whole European area, and an almost unqualified denial of the sovereign rights of the nations now at peace.
Page 444 - Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped: he wept to hear. "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.
Page 6 - No. 100, of 1863 (Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field), and to have been decided in favor of the permanency of these regulations.