The Anglo-Saxon Review, Volume 7John Lane, 1900 The covers are reproductions of rare bookbindings. Each volume has "Note on the binding ... By Cyril Davenport." |
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... causes , it has come about that many of them have been scattered abroad . They are always valuable , and of great interest ; but they are by no means uncommon . The largest and finest of these bindings are on the music - books , many of ...
... causes , it has come about that many of them have been scattered abroad . They are always valuable , and of great interest ; but they are by no means uncommon . The largest and finest of these bindings are on the music - books , many of ...
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... causes of the coolness , or at all events detachment of mind , between large sections of the two nations . In the first ... cause of misunderstanding lies in the fact that many of our public men do not visit the United States . There is ...
... causes of the coolness , or at all events detachment of mind , between large sections of the two nations . In the first ... cause of misunderstanding lies in the fact that many of our public men do not visit the United States . There is ...
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... cause of that yearning for Romance observable nowadays in every intelligent child - even as the real dulness of Medieval life must have acted , in its days , on children of a larger growth - that yearning which displays itself in ...
... cause of that yearning for Romance observable nowadays in every intelligent child - even as the real dulness of Medieval life must have acted , in its days , on children of a larger growth - that yearning which displays itself in ...
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... cause for this natural craving of ours for Romance . The beauty of the world first evoked it ; but in equal measure the very sordidness of our usual surroundings , the dulness of civilisation for passionate minds , the ugliness of the ...
... cause for this natural craving of ours for Romance . The beauty of the world first evoked it ; but in equal measure the very sordidness of our usual surroundings , the dulness of civilisation for passionate minds , the ugliness of the ...
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... cause of the literature he is supposed to serve such a critic will be very suspicious of any such facile and controvertible triumphs . Pessimism , he will remember , is never man's normal attitude ; the human spirit is always primarily ...
... cause of the literature he is supposed to serve such a critic will be very suspicious of any such facile and controvertible triumphs . Pessimism , he will remember , is never man's normal attitude ; the human spirit is always primarily ...
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Page 204 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 204 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 215 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 211 - I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country and Constitution all together.
Page 209 - I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 211 - I .did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
Page 206 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 32 - O Maker of sweet poets, dear delight Of this fair world, and all its gentle livers; Spangler of clouds, halo of crystal rivers...
Page 32 - ... of pride, Drooping its beauty o'er the watery clearness, To woo its own sad image into nearness: Deaf to light Zephyrus it would not move ; But still would seem to droop, to pine, to love. So while the Poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot ; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's bale.
Page 50 - For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.