WWI Wider Reading
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- What strikes me about this...
- What strikes me about this in retrospect is how little I seem to have prepaired for writing what is in any view and ambitious novel
- Farwell...
- Farwell to memories
- This book is not about...
- This books is not ab out heroes. English poetry in bot get fit to speak of them.
- Gl...
- Glozed
- the great and....
- the great and flashing magpie he flies as artists might
- But days shall...
- but days shall clasp him with firm hands and night shall fold him if soft wings
- Ten to...
- Ten to make and the match to win
- Tally ho, pip...
- Tally ho, pip pip and how's your uncle? Yes, in England we say hello.
- Your wait...
- Your wait for certain death is almost over.
- You worship...
- You worship decoration. You think Chivalry redeems wars disgrace. You make us shells.
- King and...
- King and country is "the biggest work of fiction since vows of fidelity were introduced into the french mariage service"
- Raleigh: (Laughing shortly...
- Raleigh: (Laughing shortly) I can't imagine the end of six days here
- Clearly Field marshall ...
- Clearly Field marshall Haig is going to make a gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin
- Boldly they rode and well...
- Boldly they rode and well, into the jaws or death, into the mouth of hell
- His landmark...
- his landmark is a kopje crest
- And two things ...
- And two things have altered not since first the world began, the beauty of the wild green earth and the bravery of man
- (nature) learns to the...
- (nature) leans to the suns gaze glorying
- Ah! Yes, the...
- Ah! Yes, the special mission
- Raleigh: Were you and I...
- R: Were you and I picked specially?
- Remember: Captain Dar...
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Remember: Captain Darling and I are behind you
B: Yes, about 30 miles behind you. - Colonel: I'm certain...
- Colonel: I'm certain you'll put on a good show
- (no candles) in the...
- (no candles) in the hands of boys but in their eyes shall shine holy glimmers of goodbye
- If any question...
- If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied
- Even our...
- Even our acne had a strange nobility about it
- Only the stuttering...
- Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle
- No hurincane...
- No hurricane of bullets met him, no tearing metal kiss
- (Bladric uses a...
- (Bladric uses a rat to polish a boot)
- Lieu: It's a leg, sir...
- Lieu: It's a leg sir CO:Well get rid of it Sargent: An' what the bloody 'ell will I hang my equiptment on
- Stanhope: After coming out of this night air...
- Stanhope: After coming out of the night air this place must have reeked of candle-grease and rats - and whiskey
- schlegel family =
- schlegel family - "german of the dreadful sort"
- Raleigh: The German are really...
- Raleigh: The German are really quite decent aren't they? I mean, outside of the newspapers
- SM: Alright, Sonny,...
- SM: Alright, Sonny, we ain't going to hurt you
- Sings well for...
- Sings well for a bastard, don't 'e?
- He thought how "Jack"...
- He thought how "Jack", cold footed, useless swine had paniced down the trench
- Hibert: Go on, then, ...
- Hibert: Go on, then, shoot!, I swear I'll never go back into those trenches again. Shoot!-And thank god
- Who'll grip...
- Who'll grip and tackle the job unaffraid?
- Osbourne: He's a splendid...
- Osbourne: He's a splendid chap Raleigh: Isn't he? He was skipper for rugger at Barford and kept wicket for the eleven.
- Hodge forever be...
- Hodge forever be/ his homely northern breast and brain
- That there is some corner
- That there is some corner of a foreigh field that is forever England
- The last great...
- The last Great English man is low
- So there it ...
- So there it is. They have trains now in England
- Schlegel =...
-
Germans of the dreadful sort
English to the back bone - With an empires...
- with an empires lamentation
- The last...
- The last great Englishman is low
- some corner of...
- some corner of a foreign field which is forever England
- Honor the charge they...
- honor the charge they made, honor the lightbrigade, noble six hundred
- I cannot, even with the best motives...
- I cannot, even with the best motives in the world, but myself up behind scholastic walls and pretend as if I am forgetting the war
- Then they gave him...
- Then they gave him morphia - and you know the rest
- Glo...
- Glozed
- Worried by silence sentries whisper...
- worried by silence, sentries curious, nervous, but nothings happens
- are more...
- are more than I can tell
- His blood is in...
- his blood is in the roses veins... the earth on his seale(accent)d eyes
- MArch of the....
- march of the galdiators: Circuis parade is lead by a pierrot, cartwheeling
- Ungen...
- ungenerated
- Eva: Force them to...
- Eva: Force them to tell us properly
- Boom boom boom...
- boom boom boom, let me guess, boom etc
- The soldier dying ...
- The soldier dying dies upon a kiss, the very kiss of christ
- Chide thou no ...
- Chide thou no more, O thou unsacraficed
- Such a brave...
- Such a brave, gay coverlet to such a bed
- Your country is up to her...
- Your country is up to her neck in a fight, and she's looking and calling for you
- You have not died...
- You have not died, it is not true, instead you seek adventure in some other place
- There's a scarlet...
- There's a scarlet cross on my breast, my dear, and a torn cross with your name
- Would I were...
- Would I were lying where he lies, sleeping sweetly by his side
- You love us when ...
- You love us when we're heroes, home on leave, or wounded in some mentionable place
- Half a league, half ...
- Half a league, half a league all in the valley of death, rode the six hundred
- (What 'appens if the boche ...
- (What 'appens if the boche 'as got all round the back of us) Stanhope: Then we advance and win the war
- If I should die...
- If I swhould die, think only this of me
- And strange eye'd...
- And strenge eye'd constellations rule his stars eternally
- Drooping tongues...
- Drooping tongues from jays that slob their relish
- England, in...
- England, in this great fight
- You have your...
- You have your quarrel just
- Ten to ...
- Ten to make and the match to win
- Who's for the trench -...
- Who's for the trench - Are you my laddie
- With no lance...
- With no lance broke in life's tournament
- That there is some corner...
- that there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever England
- His Landmark is...
- His landmark is a kopje crest
- I cannot, even...
- I cannot, even with the best motives in the world, shut myself up behind scholastic walls and pretend as if I am forgetting the war.
- We'll get that bloody...
- We'll get that bloody mayor stood in front of us
- What passing...
- What passing bells for those who die as cattle
- A war which would have been a dam sight...
- A war which would have been a dam sight simple if we had simply stayed in England and shot fifty thousand of our own men a week
- War's Hell....
- War's hell, and if you doubt the same
- I am making this statement...
- I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority
- Loved and were loved...
- Loved and were loved, and now we lie in flanders flieds
- poppies blow between...
- poppies blow between the crosses
- Hide that red we thing...
- Hide that red wet /thing, I must somehow forget
- Hide that...
- Hide that red wet/thing I must somehow forget