Satan, the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction |
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Page x
... living ) which had never yet come up but doubtless would some day or other . I must be forgiven if in these ravaged times I let myself dwell over - long on these spiritual gardens we used to cultivate , and for which the war has ...
... living ) which had never yet come up but doubtless would some day or other . I must be forgiven if in these ravaged times I let myself dwell over - long on these spiritual gardens we used to cultivate , and for which the war has ...
Page xxxviii
... living , that war - at least a modern war like this one - is an outrage upon life . But rather because war means a hypertrophy of the present and the near - at - hand , leaving in our mind no room for a different past and a different ...
... living , that war - at least a modern war like this one - is an outrage upon life . But rather because war means a hypertrophy of the present and the near - at - hand , leaving in our mind no room for a different past and a different ...
Page xlii
... living or deceased , for treaties sometimes virtually forgotten ( what percentage of educated English people remembered in 1914 the guarantees given to Belgium more than half a century before ? ) , treaties mostly secret and always ...
... living or deceased , for treaties sometimes virtually forgotten ( what percentage of educated English people remembered in 1914 the guarantees given to Belgium more than half a century before ? ) , treaties mostly secret and always ...
Page 6
... living souls . To think that poets and divines have packed these restful solitudes with brimstone flames , bogs of boiling mud , lakes of ice , viewless winds , all crammed with garrulous deceased humans ! Little did I guess , when I ...
... living souls . To think that poets and divines have packed these restful solitudes with brimstone flames , bogs of boiling mud , lakes of ice , viewless winds , all crammed with garrulous deceased humans ! Little did I guess , when I ...
Page 51
... living jelly of blood and trampled flesh , providing only its Head remains unhurt . And that Head , which each Nation calls its Government , but the other Nations call France or Russia or Britain or Germany THE BALLET OF THE NATIONS 51.
... living jelly of blood and trampled flesh , providing only its Head remains unhurt . And that Head , which each Nation calls its Government , but the other Nations call France or Russia or Britain or Germany THE BALLET OF THE NATIONS 51.
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