...to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history — passing back and back, through the cloud of years, to older and ever older memories. The other passage is from Mr. James Joyce: — The grainy sand had gone from under his feet. His boots...

...to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history — passing back and back, through the cloud of years,...Beaconsfield — to Lord Palmerston's queer clothes and high demeanour, and Albert's first stag at Balmoral . . . and Lord M. dreaming at Windsor with the rooks...

...to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history — passing back and back, through the cloud of years,...Beaconsfield — to Lord Palmerston's queer clothes and high demeanour, and Albert's face under the green lamp, and iLee, 587-9; Quarterly Review, cxciii, 809....

...to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history — passing back and back, through the cloud of years,...spring woods at Osborne, so full of primroses for Lord Beaconsfleld, to Lord Palmerston's queer clothes and high demeanour, and Albert's face under the green...

...float before It and retraced for the last time the vanished visions of that long history—passing back and back through the cloud of years to older and ever older memories—to the Spring woods at Osborne, so full of primroses for Lord Beaconsfield—to Lord Palmerston's...

...to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history — passing back and back, through the cloud of years,...Beaconsfield — to Lord Palmerston's queer clothes and high demeanour, and Albert's face under the green lamp, and Albert's first stag at Balmoral, and Albert...

...to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history — passing back and back, through the cloud of years, to older and ever 1056 , older memories — to the spring woods at Osborne, so full of primroses for Lord Beaconsfield...

...to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history — passing back and back, through the cloud of years to older and ever older memories. . . . This is not an altogether bad piece of prose : it is not sufficiently bad to avert the reader....

...'the life' by having the dying queen remember her experiences in reverse chronology, turning back: To the Spring woods at Osborne, so full of primroses...Beaconsfield — to Lord Palmerston's queer clothes and high demeanour, and Albert's face under the green lamp, and Albert's first stag at Balmoral, and Albert...

...to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history — passing back and back, through the cloud of years,...high demeanor, and Albert's face under the green lamp . . ." 20. See especially Hacker, Insight and Illusion, revised edition, pp. 134 ff.; Coffa, The Semantic...