The British Empire Series: AustralasiaK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1900 |
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Stran 167
... Gordon , makes a significant critical remark . " The student , " he says . " of these unpretending volumes will be repaid for his labour . He will find in them something very like the beginnings of a national school of Australian Poetry ...
... Gordon , makes a significant critical remark . " The student , " he says . " of these unpretending volumes will be repaid for his labour . He will find in them something very like the beginnings of a national school of Australian Poetry ...
Stran 168
... Gordon was born ; only Clarke considered the " Lines on a Kangaroo " merely a quaint piece of doggerel verse , and not " the beginnings of a national school of poetry , " or of anything else . Also , while proclaiming his friend Gordon ...
... Gordon was born ; only Clarke considered the " Lines on a Kangaroo " merely a quaint piece of doggerel verse , and not " the beginnings of a national school of poetry , " or of anything else . Also , while proclaiming his friend Gordon ...
Stran 169
... Gordon by some years , he and the author of the " Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes , " were actual contemporaries , and they may be regarded as the first writers of verse in Australia who made any real impression on the Colonial public ...
... Gordon by some years , he and the author of the " Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes , " were actual contemporaries , and they may be regarded as the first writers of verse in Australia who made any real impression on the Colonial public ...
Stran 172
... Gordon's " Bush Ballads , " occupies the same position in the popular estimation of Australians as this powerful story . It has been read all over Australia , and drama- tised and acted in all the chief cities and bush town- ships . Yet ...
... Gordon's " Bush Ballads , " occupies the same position in the popular estimation of Australians as this powerful story . It has been read all over Australia , and drama- tised and acted in all the chief cities and bush town- ships . Yet ...
Stran 175
these sketches of the " old Colonial days , " as Gordon fondly called them — the " days before the gold , " as the early squatters used to say — a dozen or more years ago ; and nothing that " Rolf Boldrewood " has since done has given ...
these sketches of the " old Colonial days , " as Gordon fondly called them — the " days before the gold , " as the early squatters used to say — a dozen or more years ago ; and nothing that " Rolf Boldrewood " has since done has given ...
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Stran 170 - Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning ; they find private messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude dropped for them in every corner.
Stran iv - Except as provided in this section, this Constitution shall not impair any right which the Queen may be pleased to exercise by virtue of Her Royal prerogative to grant special leave of appeal from the High Court to Her Majesty in Council. The Parliament may make laws limiting the matters in which such leave may be asked, but proposed laws containing any such limitation shall be reserved by the Governor-General for Her Majesty's pleasure.
Stran 211 - ... a Legislative Council and a House of Assembly are constituted, called the Parliament of Tasmania. The Legislative Council is composed of eighteen members, elected by all natural-born or naturalised subjects of the Crown who possess either a freehold worth 20Z.
Stran 172 - So he rode to his death, with that careless smile, In the van of the 'Light Brigade'; So stricken by Russian grape, the cheer Rang out while he toppled back, From the shattered lungs as merry and clear As it did when it roused the pack.
Stran 177 - Oh, brave white horses ! you gather and gallop. The storm sprite loosens the gusty reins ; Now the stoutest ship were the frailest shallop In your hollow backs, or your high arch'd manes.
Stran 175 - They are rhymes rudely strung, with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds. Where with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses, Sere woodlands, and sad wildernesses, And. faint flocks and herds. Where in dreariest days, when all dews end, And all winds are warm, Wild Winter's large floodgates are...
Stran 212 - Elementary education is under the control of a director working under a ministerial head. There are several valuable scholarships from the lower to the higher schools, and from the higher schools to English universities.
Stran 86 - Britons, hold your own ! IV. Sharers of our glorious past, Brothers, must we part at last? Shall we not thro' good and ill Cleave to one another still? Britain's myriad voices call, ' Sons, be welded each and all, Into one imperial whole, One with Britain, heart and soul ! One life, one flag, one fleet, one Throne ! Britons, hold your own ! POETS AND THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
Stran 176 - Child, can I tell where the garlands go? Can I say where the lost leaves veer On the brown-burnt banks, when the wild winds blow, When they drift through the dead-wood drear, Girl ! when the garlands of next year glow, You may gather again, my dear — But I go where the last year's lost leaves go At the falling of the year.
Stran 125 - I fear, its exportation to fulfill contracts as to quantity without sufficient regard to quality ; but when the necessary care is taken, it will be found to justify the encomium of Baron von Mueller, whom we all know as a competent authority, ' that for the durability of its timber it is unsurpassed by any kind of tree in any portion of the globe...