The National Review, Volume 117W.H. Allen, 1941 - English literature |
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Page 79
... face was grained ; Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground , And no guns thumped or down the flues made moan . But , for all the horror , and for all the disillusion of Owen's vision , there is no cynicism in the thought . And ...
... face was grained ; Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground , And no guns thumped or down the flues made moan . But , for all the horror , and for all the disillusion of Owen's vision , there is no cynicism in the thought . And ...
Page 201
... face into a charming smile or look through people with unseeing iciness . I do not know to what nationality she belonged , but she spoke more languages indifferently than I have ever heard come from the lips of one human being . It was ...
... face into a charming smile or look through people with unseeing iciness . I do not know to what nationality she belonged , but she spoke more languages indifferently than I have ever heard come from the lips of one human being . It was ...
Page 526
... face to face with a supreme emergency ; we are all absolutely in one boat and have got to sink or swim together . There can be no thought of the individual interests of the Allied nations . . . they have all one supreme interest ...
... face to face with a supreme emergency ; we are all absolutely in one boat and have got to sink or swim together . There can be no thought of the individual interests of the Allied nations . . . they have all one supreme interest ...
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