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...n injustice. As he went forward on his journey, and was come as far as the river Cephisus, some of the race of the Phytalidae met him and saluted him,... ...eir country both famine and pestilence lay heavy upon them, and even their rivers were dried up. Being told by the oracle that, if they appeased and r... ...ng that had happened; but Soloon, the thing being desperate, leaped into a river near the seaside and drowned himself. As soon as Theseus was acquaint... ...f Apollo, Pythopolis, and, in honor of the unfortunate youth, he named the river that runs by it Soloon, and left the two surviving brothers entrusted... ...the rest: that Achilles and Patroclus overcame Paris in Thessaly, near the river Sperchius, but that Hector took and plundered the city of the T roeze... ...for the sweetness, abun- dance, and coolness of the streams; one they call Phoenix, the other Elaea, even to the present time, as if Lucina had not be... ...which means Philopoemen was educated by him, as Homer says Achilles was by Phoenix, and from his infancy molded to lofty and noble inclinations. But E...

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...ou would have sought him in vain; only in a few temperate and sub-tropical river val- leys would you have found the squatting lairs of his little herd... ...and pursued it and began pictorial art, moulded the soft, warm clay of the river brink between his fingers, and found a pleasure in its patternings an... ...m of vessels, and found that it would hold water. He watched the streaming river, and wondered from what bountiful breast this incessant water came; h... ... though he died blindly unknowing. At last, in the generous levels of warm river valleys, where food is abundant and life very easy, the emerging huma... ...and fertility, and the king ruled peace 9 H G Wells and war. In a hundred river valleys about the warm, temper- ate zone of the earth there were alre... ...ties and wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were only the last phoenix blaze of the former civilisation flaring up about the beginnings of...

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...re to hear some- thing noteworthy. Nay, perhaps to hear a whole series and river of the most memorable utterances; such as, when once thawed, he would... ...rom below; the little Kuhbach gushing kindly by, among beech-rows, through river after river, into the Donau, into the Black Sea, into the Atmosphere ... ...pirit, yet spiritualized, vapor- ized. Fact unparalleled in Biography: The river of his His- tory, which we have traced from its tiniest fountains, an... ...ine and ploughshare? Where are they?—Preserving their Game!” CHAPTER V THE PHOENIX Putting which four singular Chapters together, and along- side of t... ...s hitherto placed in the Past, is Before us.”—But listen again:— “When the Phoenix is fanning her funeral pyre, will there not be sparks flying! Alas,... ...cautious beards will get singed. “For the rest, in what year of grace such Phoenix-cre- mation will be completed, you need not ask. The law of Perseve... ...nd sacredness had evaporated out of them. And then, finally, what time the Phoenix Death-Birth itself will re- quire, depends on unseen contingencies.... ... (alas, with quite other fuel than spice-wood); in the faith that she is a Phoenix; and that a new heaven-born young one will rise out of her ashes! W...

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...e bridge at Arcis is of wood. About four hundred feet above the bridge the river is crossed by another bridge, on which rise the tall wooden sides of ... ...is with its park and gardens, its outer walls and trees which overhand the river above the bridges, and the rather scanty pastures of the left bank. T... ...he rue du Pont, contrasting in this respect with the tran- quillity of the river flowing downward between the garden of Monsieur Grevin, whose house i... ...here.” “Ah ca!” said Olivier Vinet, “then he is not a man; he’s a devil, a phoenix, he will poculate—” “Ah, fie! monsieur,” said Madame Mollot, “you u... ...cheteau, “I will go up and get my hat and walk up and down the bank of the river until you are ready.” “That’s right; and be sure you watch the door o... ...ich miller named Laurent Goussard, who possesses two or three mills on the river Aube. This man, formerly a member of the revo- lutionary municipality...

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...ect,— “‘Tink-a-tink, tink-a-tink, By the light of the star, On the blue river’s brink, I heard a guitar. “‘I heard a guitar, On the blue waters ... ...arrel with Government re- garding certain articles published by him in the Phoenix news- paper. With the third bottle, he becomes overpoweringly great... ...ed from the hotel), she gave us to un- derstand that the great walk by the river was altogether infe- rior to the principal avenue of Molloyville Park...

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...f a man of erudition in polite literature and cosmography, manage that the river Tagus shall be named in your story, and there you are at once with an... ...th another famous annota- 48 Don Quixote – Part I tion, setting forth—The river Tagus was so called after a King of Spain: it has its source in such ... ...rivalled in wit, unequalled in courtesy, unapproached in gentle bearing, a phoenix in friendship, generous without limit, grave without arrogance, gay... ...another ‘He of the Unicorn,’ this one ‘He of the Damsels,’ that ‘He of the Phoenix,’ another ‘The Knight of the Griffin,’ and another ‘He of the Death... ...say is, that the shepherd, they say, came with his flock to cross over the river Guadiana, which was at that time swollen and almost overflowing its b... ...d told him, when he failed to keep count of the goats that had crossed the river and the story remained unfinished; but to return to the Ragged One, h... ... to contemplate mar- 267 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. riage, even with a Phoenix.” The last words of his master about not wanting to marry were so d... ...ay be seen in the book, where it is related that as he was sailing along a river there came up out of the midst of the water against him a fiery serpe...

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...a,” said his mother; “his shoes looked as if he had been walking through a river.” “Well, but so were all the others,” said Fred. “Very likely, but th... ... masterly eyes are not common among our gentle- men. You will be quite her phoenix; and how much ‘Thomson’s Seasons’ you will have to hear! I dare say... ...ugh, but was too anxious to attend to her. I thought he was drowned in the river,” said Alex. “No, it was in the deep pool under the weeping willow, w... ...as there,” said the boy. “And thought wrong; the poor man was found in the river two miles off.” “I always heard it was at Knight’s Pool,” repeated Ca... ...ld cathedral town, with its nest of trees, and the chalky hills; the quiet river creeping through the meadows: the “beech-crowned steep,” girdled in w...

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... hospitality. Some club, however, or tavern per- haps, in the summer, some river bank would be chosen as the scene of these festivities. T o a few,—if... ...of pleasure,— in his own brougham. But on this occasion he walked down the river side, and then walked from the Mansion House into a dingy little cour... ...al attack which had been made upon it. ‘Well, Phineas; how do you like the Phoenix?’ Phineas Finn had flown back to London at the instigation of proba... ... a hazy retrospect of past glories, and a delight in the beauty of his own river, his own park, and his own house. Sir Alured, with all his foibles, a... ...s the park up to the house, and left Arthur Fletcher standing alone by the river’s bank. And so by degrees the blow had come full home to him. He had ... ...me time.’ ‘ And therefore one has to be chopped up, like a reed out of the river, as the poet said, and yet not give sweet music after- wards.’ The Du...

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...holy men, ash smeared fakirs by their brick shrines under the trees at the riverside, with whom he was quite familiar–greeting them as they re turned... ... where it touched earth, there broke out a stream which presently became a River, whose nature, by our Lord’s beneficence, and that merit He acquired ... ...tten,’ said the Curator sadly. The lama drew a long breath. “Where is that River? Foun tain of Wisdom, where fell the arrow?” ‘Alas’, my brother, I d... ...ow! We know the arrow fell! We know the stream gushed! Where, then, is the River? My dream told me to find it. So I came. I am here. But where is the ... ...tains freedom from the Wheel of Things,’ the lama went on, unheeding. ‘The River of the Arrow! Think again! Some little stream, maybe–dried in the hea... ...hrill tongued fifes: We shouldered arms, W e marched–we marched away. From Phoenix Park We marched to Dublin Bay. The drums and the fifes, Oh, sweetly...

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... they also that dwelt in Anemorea and Hyampolis, and about the waters of the river Cephissus, and Lilæa by the springs of the Cephissus; with their ch... ...Opous, Calliarus, Bessa, Scarphe, fair Augeæ, Tarphe, and Thronium about the river Boagrius. With him there came forty ships of the Locrians who dwell... ...ke of Helen. The men of Pylos and Arene, and Thryum where is the ford of the river Alpheus; strong Aipy, Cyparisseis, and Amphigenea; Pteleum, Helos, ... ...s, son of Hercules by Astyochea, whom he had carried off from Ephyra, on the river Selleis, after sacking many cities of val iant warriors. When Tlep... ...t Peræbi, who dwelt about wintry Dodona, and held the lands round the lovely river Titaresius, which sends its waters into the Peneus. They do not min... ...f Achilles son of Peleus without delay . Let those go whom I shall name. Let Phoenix, dear to Jove, lead the way; let Ajax and Ulysses follow, and let... ...e them. As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Ajax made a sign to Phoenix, and when he saw this, Ulysses filled his cup with wine and pledg... ...y displea sure lasts the one that they have now hit upon may not be. As for Phoenix, let him sleep here that he may sail with me in the morning if he... ...the stern ness with which he had denied them, till presently the old knight Phoenix in his great fear for the ships of the Achæans, burst into tears ...

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...– the China boy, by this time, perhaps, baiting his line by the banks of a river in the Flowery Land; – and in particular the Scot who was then sick a... ...sky and the free air, delighted him like wine; and the hoarse chafing of a river on his left sounded in his ears agreeably. It was past eight at night... ...eye lighted upon two bright windows on his left hand, between the road and river. He turned off by a by-road, and in a few minutes he was knocking wit... ... ‘Sir,’ said the old man, in a very stately, shaky manner, ‘you are at the River Farm, and I am Killian Gottesheim, at your disposal. We are here, sir... ...eckon ourselves part Grunewalders here, lying so near the borders; and the river there is all good Grunewald wa- ter, every drop of it. Yes, sir, a fi... ...he held up, for Otto’s inspection, a pewter medal bearing the imprint of a Phoenix and the legend Libertas. ‘And so now you see you may trust me,’ add... ...ardon me,’ said the Prince. ‘I will even tell you what that medal bears: a Phoenix burning, with the word libertas.’ The medallist remaining speechles... ...rone has fallen – great was the fall of it! – and your good friends of the Phoenix bear the rule.’ The red-faced miller looked supreme astonishment. ‘...

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... parts of his body, and lost his horse, yet, nevertheless, swam across the river Rhone in his armor, with his breastplate and shield, bearing himself ... ...Spanish shore on his right hand, he landed a little above the mouth of the river Baetis, where it falls into the Atlantic sea, and gives the name to t... ...or of Baetica, with the loss of two thousand Romans, near the banks of the river Baetis; Lucius Domitius, proconsul of the other province of Spain, wa... ...y three and fifty cohorts. And when now all the cities on this side of the river Ebro also united their forces together under his command, his army gr... ... put in practice against the Characitanians. These are a people beyond the river Tagus, who inhabit neither cities nor towns, but live in a vast high ... ...o troops of foreign horse, commanded by Pharnabazus, son to Artabazus, and Phoenix of T enedos, with order to charge as soon as ever they saw the enem... ...- ing specially to recommend him, but his lucky fancy of call- ing himself Phoenix, Alexander Achilles, and Philip Peleus, was therefore well enough e... ...o accept of their repentance for what was past, he only de- manded of them Phoenix and Prothytes, the authors of the rebellion, and proclaimed a gener... ... along with him, declaring he was neither older nor inferior in courage to Phoenix, Achilles’s guardian. For when, quitting their horses, they began t...

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...hn. Guadiana your squire, likewise bewailing your fate, was changed into a river of his own name, but when he came to the surface and beheld the sun o... ...ndarte. And the fourth thing is, that I have ascertained the source of the river Guadiana, heretofore unknown to mankind.” “You are right,” said Don Q... ...ibed, two days after quitting the grove Don Quixote and Sancho reached the river Ebro, and the sight of it was a great delight to Don Quixote as he co... ...this bark is no enchanted one, but belongs to some of the fishermen of the river, for they catch the best shad in the world here.” As Sancho said this... ...the bank. But when Sancho saw himself somewhere about two yards out in the river, he began to tremble and give himself up for lost; but nothing dis- t... ...that sort which their writings are full of. And then when they promise the Phoenix of Arabia, the crown of Ariadne, the horses of the Sun, the pearls ...

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...f a man of erudition in polite literature and cosmography, manage that the river Tagus shall be named in your story, and there you are at once with an... ... there you are at once with another famous annota- tion, setting forth—The river Tagus was so called after a King of Spain: it has its source in such ... ...rivalled in wit, unequalled in courtesy, unapproached in gentle bearing, a phoenix in friendship, generous without limit, grave without arrogance, gay... ...another ‘He of the Unicorn,’ this one ‘He of the Damsels,’ that ‘He of the Phoenix,’ another ‘The Knight of the Griffin,’ and another ‘He of the Death... ...say is, that the shepherd, they say, came with his flock to cross over the river Guadiana, which was at that time swollen and almost overflowing its b... ...d told him, when he failed to keep count of the goats that had crossed the river and the story remained unfinished; but to return to the Ragged One, h... ...t is impossible for me for a moment to contemplate mar- riage, even with a Phoenix.” The last words of his master about not wanting to marry were so d... ...ay be seen in the book, where it is related that as he was sailing along a river there came up out of the midst of the water against him a fiery serpe... ...that sort which their writings are full of. And then when they promise the Phoenix of Arabia, the crown of Ariadne, the horses of the Sun, the pearls ...

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...able.” This, from the nature of the ground, never happened. We crossed the river at Garrat, out of sight from the enemy’s position; and, on our return... ...ds are carried variously combined through the at- mosphere, or by means of rivers, by birds, by winds, by wa- ters, into remote countries. But the rea... ...ck of the conquering party is relieved, and at liberty to return. From the river you see it ascending. The plume-crested officer in command rushes for... ...ways for me rank as a great man.” We willingly accompanied the earl to the Phoenix Park, where the lord lieutenant was then residing, and were private... ... with the great events of Elizabeth’s or Cromwell’s era—at- tending at the Phoenix Park. But the persons whom I re- member most distinctly of all whom... ... of the place, which had no sort of defences except the natural one of the River Slaney. This, however, was fordable, and that the assailants knew. Th... ...would have missed. His further history was briefly this:— Somewhere in the River of Plate he had effected his escape from the pirates; and a long time...

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...t. The hill on which the houses of Sancerre are grouped is so far from the river that the little river-port of Saint-Thibault thrives on the life of S... ...m Paris to Sancerre by the southern road were no longer ferried across the river from Cosne to Saint-Thibault; and this of itself is enough to show th... ...in the capital of Le Berry. Every one was afraid lest in entertaining this phoenix of the Department, the conversa- tion should not be clever enough; ... ...any con- fidences; and the Parisian, seeing herself so far superior to the phoenix of Mademoiselle Chamarolles’ school, showed her 31 Balzac provinci... ...sed, ‘since you were so barbarous as to throw your husband’s body into the river, why did you not get rid of the head? Then there would have been no p... ...deringly, to Dinah. “Madame la Baronne was chilled by the cool air off the river,” replied Lousteau. “Bianchon advised her to put on a warm dress.” 1...

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...ently exceedingly beautiful.’ Mr. Wisbottle hummed, ‘Flow on, thou shining river. ’ ‘We have some splendid steam-vessels in Ireland, ’ said O’Bleary. ... ...re, ’ replied the affrighted Mrs. Tibbs. ‘But thank God I’m insured in the Phoenix!’ ‘The moment I have secured your mistress, my dear,’ said a man’s ... ...ersation, the City of Lon- don Ramsgate steamer was running gaily down the river. Her flag was flying, her band was playing, her passen- gers were con... ...‘Shove her off!’ cried Mr. Percy Noakes, and away the boat glided down the river; Mr. Percy Noakes seated on the recently mopped seat, and the waterme... ...ior and junior, retired to rest, with the vague idea of emigrating to Swan River early in the ensuing week. Rose Villa has once again resumed its wont... ... ran quickly from the spot, and paused not for breath until he reached the river-side. He crept softly down the steep stone stairs that lead from the ...

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...sed Eugenie so deeply that before she slept she dreamed long dreams of her phoenix cousin. The loto-numbers were drawn very slowly, and presently the ... ...s high horse. “Jean, fill up all the holes except those at the bank of the river; there you are to plant the pop- lars I have bought. Plant ‘em there,... ...immer seizes the over- hanging branch of a willow to draw himself from the river and lie at rest upon its shore. Did no dread of a coming ab- sence sa... ...aden with sacks, they all had their comments to make:— “Water flows to the river; the old fellow was running after his gold,” said one. “He gets it fr...

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...nnecticut. They flung them- selves on the grass and tossed stones into the river; they talked like old friends. Rowland lit a cigar, and Roderick refu... ...owland watched the shadows on Mount Holyoke, listened to the gurgle of the river, and sniffed the balsam of the pines. A gentle breeze had be- gun to ... ...ummits, and brought the smell of the mown grass across from the elm-dotted river meadows. He sat up beside his companion and looked away at the far- s... ...rra-cotta tubs, and an oleander that never flowered. The unclean, historic river swept beneath; behind were dusky, reeking walls, spotted here and the... ...he Villa Doria. The place was crumbling and shabby and melancholy, but the river was delightful, the rent was a trifle, and everything was picturesque... ...wandering in yonder boschetto with a penniless artist.” “He is certainly a phoenix of princes! The signora must be in a state of bliss.” The Cavaliere...

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...to another, the very picture of the general uncle. It chanced that Flora had met Mr. Robbie in the course of the afternoon. ‘Now, Miss Flora,’ he had ... ...; at first through pleasant country roads, and afterwards along a succession of bays of a fairylike prettiness, to our destination—Cramond on the Almo...