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  • Binyon does not see Georgia as a worthy candidate for NATO membership.

    russia disturbed us caucasus plans 2008

  • Michael Binyon, political reviewer for the British Times newspaper, who appeared on the same broadcast, said that there is no hope of reuniting Abkhazia and South Ossetia with Georgia.

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  • Binyon does not see Georgia as a worthy candidate for NATO membership.

    27 « August « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • Michael Binyon, political reviewer for the British Times newspaper, who appeared on the same broadcast, said that there is no hope of reuniting Abkhazia and South Ossetia with Georgia.

    russia disturbed us caucasus plans 2008

  • The pantheon of British war poets most certainly includes Isaac Rosenberg, who died in action in 1918, at age 27, but his poems -- unlike those of Owen, Brooke or Binyon ( "They will not grow old, as we who are left grow old") -- have somehow failed to find a place in our collective memory.

    One Man's Verse in No Man's Land 2009

  • By the way, contrary to what Bayley or Binyon says, Pushkin was one of the very few Russians of his time who could actually read Byron in English.

    languagehat.com: MISUSAGE. 2004

  • The descendants of Kanoka made all that was greatest in the art of their country from the ninth to the eleventh century, and then it but passed to other dynasties, in whom, as Mr. Binyon says, ‘the flower of genius was being continually renewed and revived in the course of many generations’.34 How serene their art, no exasperation, no academic tyranny, its tradition as naturally observed as the laws of a game or dance.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • The descendants of Kanoka made all that was greatest in the art of their country from the ninth to the eleventh century, and then it but passed to other dynasties, in whom, as Mr. Binyon says, ‘the flower of genius was being continually renewed and revived in the course of many generations’.34 How serene their art, no exasperation, no academic tyranny, its tradition as naturally observed as the laws of a game or dance.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Laurence Binyon gives an analogous fable in Chinese art: ‘A great artist painted a dragon upon a temple wall, and as he put the final touch to it, the dragon, too instinct with life, soared crashing through the roof and left an empty space’ Painting in the Far East: An Introduction to the History of Pictorial Art in Asia especially China and Japan London: Edward Arnold, 1908, p.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Laurence Binyon gives an analogous fable in Chinese art: ‘A great artist painted a dragon upon a temple wall, and as he put the final touch to it, the dragon, too instinct with life, soared crashing through the roof and left an empty space’ Painting in the Far East: An Introduction to the History of Pictorial Art in Asia especially China and Japan London: Edward Arnold, 1908, p.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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