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... Turning your books to greaves , your ink to blood , Your pens to lances , and your tongue divine To a loud trumpet and a point of war ? And again : ( 2 Henry IV , IV . i . 41. ) My Lord of York , it better show'd with you , When that ...
... Turning your books to greaves , your ink to blood , Your pens to lances , and your tongue divine To a loud trumpet and a point of war ? And again : ( 2 Henry IV , IV . i . 41. ) My Lord of York , it better show'd with you , When that ...
Page 95
... turn accentuate this or that side of it , but he only , unless perhaps we may set beside him Lord Byron , is comprehensive . My ex- position of Byron's work appears in The Burning Oracle , and I can here do no justice to it , nor to the ...
... turn accentuate this or that side of it , but he only , unless perhaps we may set beside him Lord Byron , is comprehensive . My ex- position of Byron's work appears in The Burning Oracle , and I can here do no justice to it , nor to the ...
Page 96
... present war it seems proper enough that England should be outnumbered on land , and yet , if a wider space and longer period be taken , should expect to gain , in her turn , from a strength due to imperial 96 THE OLIVE AND THE SWORD.
... present war it seems proper enough that England should be outnumbered on land , and yet , if a wider space and longer period be taken , should expect to gain , in her turn , from a strength due to imperial 96 THE OLIVE AND THE SWORD.
Contents
OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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