The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 115Atlantic Monthly Company, 1915 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Allies American army asked Austria Belgian Belgium believe better Billy Sunday British called century Christian church cial civilization Cossacks course Denmark door England English eugenists Europe eyes fact faith feel felt fight force France French friends German girl give hand heart hope human ical idea interest Italy Joffre Jonadab keep knew land less live London look marriage means ment military mind Monroe Doctrine moral morning mother ness neutrality never night Norway once party peace play political present question religion Russia russification of Finland seemed Sézanne sion Sir Edward Grey social soldiers soul spirit Street Swakopmund Sweden tell things thought tion to-day told treaty turn uncon United whole woman women young
Popular passages
Page 218 - There is a willow grows aslant 'a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them...
Page 471 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 102 - Cooperation is possible only when supported at every turn by the orderly processes of just government based upon law, not upon arbitrary or irregular force.
Page 103 - concessions" to foreign capitalists in Latin America. You do not hear of concessions to foreign capitalists in the United States. They are not granted concessions. They are invited to make investments. The work is ours, though they are welcome to invest in it.
Page 108 - ... shall, when diplomatic methods of adjustment have failed, be referred for investigation and report to a permanent International Commission, to be constituted in the manner prescribed in...
Page 147 - We are now in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law. Our troops have occupied Luxemburg and perhaps are already on Belgian soil. Gentlemen, that is contrary to the dictates of international law. It is true that the French Government has declared at Brussels that France is willing to respect the neutrality of Belgium, as long as her opponent respects it. We knew, however, that France stood ready for invasion.
Page 344 - SWEET are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song; Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to view A fate more pleasing, a delight more true Than that in which the brother Poets joy'd, Who with combined powers, their wit employ'd To raise a trophy to the drama's muses.
Page 262 - A SONG of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be that sing it well. Let them sing it loud and long, We lift our hearts in a loftier song: We lift our hearts to Heaven above, Singing the glory of her we love, — England!
Page 209 - Congress or either House or any committee or Member thereof by officers or employees in the civil service of the united States shall be transmitted through the heads of their respective departments or offices, who shall forward them without delay with such comment as they may deem requisite in the public interest.
Page 344 - Maud' every now and then — 'There's a wonderful touch. That's very tender. How beautiful that is.' Yes, and it was wonderful, tender, beautiful, and he read exquisitely in a voice like an organ, rather music than speech.