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...ble of victoriously enduring the test are led to the shore of a river or a lake. If all the streams are frozen in the region, a hole is made in the ic... ...rst pub- lished his reflections on the inevitability of death and its mis- eries. 49 His second, more lengthy discussion of the death instinct 49. Sig... ...red hill sloping abruptly down to Irondequoit Bay which in turn opens onto Lake Ontario to the north. Behind the house where I live on Orenda Drive is... ...ways unusable to humans, frost, terrifying invisible menaces such as water monsters, and death and disease. He also blights the corn to make it harder... ...terests and thus add to the Creation. The Seneca Iroquois prophet Handsome Lake early in the 1800s began to see in the Good and Evil Twins something a...

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...k on the wall and wondered if I had grown taller. Galilee A storm. The lake. Two fishermen drowned. Tents blown over. Next day as I bury the dead... ...g in a borrowed tent; James and Mark are asleep inside. Yesterday, on the lake shore, I was circled by a crowd. I talked to them till late. I wish t... ... me as I lay in my tent. The wind was churning leaves and I walked to the lake to watch the waves. I felt cold but pulled my cloak around me and con... ...ghts of angels sing you on your way. When you died, Stratford teemed with monsters. Your hand in mine, such a cold hand, you said adieu. What God wa... ...floated across a valley, across a hill where coral studded the top: I saw monsters pass and re-pass, dark blue, grey, orange, fins fluted like fans ... ...r their beneficence: hark: a pox against pain: who has pain! No. Defy the monsters, prod the phoenix, bury pig- nuts, come forward magical, fecundate... ... those vessels have been returned to Liberia. Now, an American ship, the Erie, out of Portland, has been captured off the West African coast, and 8...

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...rsion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como. Their benevolent disposition Frankenstein 18 often made th... ...essed a house in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city. We res... ... to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discov eries which I hoped to make. None but those who have ex perienced them ... ...tter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake. I fear that he will become an idler unless we yield the point and p... ...n to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood. Yet I am certainly unjust. Ev... ...is all that I can receive, and it shall content me. It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be mor... ...nts shone in her eyes, but it continually gave place to distraction and rev erie. The sun sank lower in the heavens; we passed the river Drance and o...

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...nd savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something l... ...known it may be, that there are isolated spots along the line of the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older American to... ...ll can be; and the day is not distant when the whole of that vast range of lakes will become the seat of empire, and fraught with all the interests of... ...ake a chain, the water passing out of one into the other, until it reaches Erie, which is a sheet off here to the west-ward, as large as Ontario itsel... ... sheet off here to the west-ward, as large as Ontario itself. Well, out of Erie the water comes, until it reaches a low mountain like, over the edge o... ...mage of eternity; the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, drea...

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...columns of steam in the air, misshapen lumps of lime, mist-like preadamite monsters, still pools of turquoise-blue stretches of blue corn-flowers, a r... ...t when things were at their rockiest we nearly fell into a little sapphire lake—but never sapphire was so blue—called Mary’s Lake; and that between ei... ...ot count. San Francisco was a pleasure- resort as well as a city, and Salt Lake was a phenomenon. This place is the first American city I have encount... ...ally to the raising of the entire city so many feet above the level of the lake which it faces, and generally to grovel before the golden calf. But yo... ...lion inhabit- ants, situated on the seashore, which is falsely called Lake Erie. It is a peaceful place, and more like an English county town than mos...

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...eded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most mon- str... ..., though on every side Assaulted by voracious enemies, Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm’d in front or jaw, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked... ...chapter on whaling in Ribs and Trucks. “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the ... ... them thither? Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down ... ..., ye ship- owners of Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fish- eries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unsea- sonable medita... ...inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); 180 Moby Dic... ...he mate, a Vineyarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo. “‘Lakeman!—Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lak... ...an, rising in his swinging mat of grass. “On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but—I crave your courtesy—may be, you shall soon hear further of... ...or in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh- water seas of ours,—Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Su- perior, and Michigan,—possess an ocea...

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... on a fairer scene. It encourages poetry, idleness, delicious sensual rev- erie. O Jones! friend of my heart! would you not like to be a white-robed G... ...Trafalgar Square Pillar to the Egyp- tians; and that both of the huge ugly monsters were lying in the dirt there side by side. Pompey’s Pillar is by n... ...y people of El Muddee,’ he says; ‘I have thought how to relieve their mis- eries. Near them lies the fruitful land of El Guanee. It is rich in maize a... ...from the branches; grey cranes or herons were flying over the cool shining lakes, that the river’s overflow had left behind; water was gurgling throug... ...by one, over a ridge of slippery earth; now, we floundered through a small lake of mud. At last, at about half-a-mile off the Pyramid, we came to a pi... ...ich the treach- 152 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo erous lake abounded. It was nothing but joking and laughter, bullying of guides, ...

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...uthy to the fountain dry: T o empty stomachs Nature lowers: The lake was full where heaven look’d fair of yore! So, when he had spoken that... ...at at the foot of a lofty mountain of the Caucasus there lieth a deep blue lake; near to this lake a nest of serpents, wise and ancient. Now, it was t... ...rpents, wise and ancient. Now, it was the habit of a damsel to pass by the lake early at morn, on her way from the tents of her tribe to the pastures ... ...ent about their commissions. Sometimes to amuse themselves with his droll- eries, they sent for him, and were bountiful with him, and made him drink w... ...h was of gold, crusted over with devices and patterns, and heads of golden monsters, a ravishment of skill in him that executed it, cumbrous with orna...

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...ge for a few brief minutes on an open country, glittering with some bright lake or pool, broad as many an English river, but so small here that it sca... ...on the wall. One, of a fe male, over the door, he called ‘The Lady of the Lake.’ He smiled as I looked at these contrivances to while away the time; ... ...a strong impression on his mind: especially the opening of The Lady of the Lake, and the great battle scene in Marmion, in which, no doubt from the co... ...ith all his partiality for his hero, is fain to admit that the slaughtered monsters in question were of a very inno cent and simple turn; extremely g... ...COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA AS I HAD A DESIRE TO TRAVEL through the ... ... Looking down upon the filthy river after dark, it seemed to be alive with monsters, as these black masses rolled upon the surface, or came starting u... ...that evening. We put up at a comfortable little hotel on the brink of Lake Erie, lay there that night, and had no choice but to wait there next day, u... ...d a boat with Boz, he groaned, and became silent. We called at the town of Erie, at eight o’clock that night, and lay there an hour. Between five and ...

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...t I will lay aside my discourse of rivers, and tell you some things of the monsters, or fish, call them what you will, that they breed and feed in the... ...river Ganges, there be Eels of thirty feet long. He says there, that these monsters appear in that sea, only when the tempestuous winds oppose the tor... ...rse, into the sea profound; The raging sea, beneath the vallies low, Where lakes, and rills, and rivulets do flow: The lofty woods, the forests wide a... ... and shape, and other ways; and so do Trouts. It is well known that in the Lake Leman, the Lake of Geneva, there are Trouts taken of three cubits long... ...writer of good credit: and Mercator says, the Trouts that are taken in the Lake of Geneva are a great part of the merchan dize of that famous city. A... ...D ND The Compleat Angler — Walton To return to the ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES S ITE, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu /faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm To re...

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...tian Heroism’, that we can only hint at it, as at that of the ‘Helmsman of Lake Erie’, who, with the steamer on fire around him, held fast by the whee... ...Heroism’, that we can only hint at it, as at that of the ‘Helmsman of Lake Erie’, who, with the steamer on fire around him, held fast by the wheel in ... ... among the hills, sometimes encamping in the woods, sometimes crossing the lakes in small boats. Many 27 Yo n g e ladies were among them, and their s... ...ward, resolved to free their chief from this formidable enemy. There was a lake on one side, and a precipice on the other, and the king had hardly spa... ...but monstrous serpents, lions, elephants, asses with horns, and dog-headed monsters, to have a scorching sun overhead, and a noisome marsh under their... ...but the spectators needed even nobler game to be set before their favorite monsters— men were brought forward to confront them. Some of these were at ... ...e a crocodile or a serpent is uncertain. There is reason to think that the monsters of early creation were slow in becoming extinct, or it is not 122...

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...eded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrou... ..., though on every side Assaulted by voracious enemies, Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm’d in front or jaw, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked... ...Chapter on Whaling in Ribs and Trucks. “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the ... ...them thither? Once more. Say, you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down ... ...inland Strella mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still... ...e mate, a Vine yarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.” “Lakeman! — Buffalo! Pray, what is a L... ...an, rising in his swinging mat of grass. “On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but — I crave your courtesy — may be, you shall soon hear furthe... ...or in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh water seas of ours, — Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Su perior, and Michigan, — possess an oc... ...nd what are they?” “Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal. You must have heard of it.” “Nay, Senor; hereabouts in this dul...

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...rough centuries continued to lave, as with the quiet undulations of summer lakes, the sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne? The Byzantine court, wh... ...ry known variety of nautical equipment and mode of con- flict, upon a vast lake formed artificially for that express pur- pose. Mimic land-fights were... ... was such in reality. These three were also the first in that long line of monsters, who, at different times, under the title of Cæsars, dishonored hu... ...ave so long (and with so little in- vestigation of their cases) passed for monsters or for demoniac counterfeits of men, would at length be brought ba... ...ch. 82 The Cæsars North, have walked for twenty years amongst our British lakes and mountains hatless, and amidst both snow and rain, such as Romans ... ... shielding his obscure vices, and drawing over his defects the ample drap- eries of the imperatorial robe, as he was to Hadrian, his grand- father by ...

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...My Mother wept, and her sorrow got vent; but in my heart there lay a whole lake of tears, pent up in silent desola- tion. Nevertheless the unworn Spir... ... Self-help. Nevertheless a desert this was, waste, and howling with savage monsters. Teufelsdrockh gives us long details of his “fever-paroxysms of Do... ...rging into some emerald valley, where the streamlet collects itself into a Lake, and man has again found a fair dwelling, and it seems as if Peace had... ...r: only the loftier summits look down here and there as on a second plain; lakes also lie clear and earnest in their solitude. No trace of man now vis... ... of Teufelsdrockh, in whom underground humors and intricate sardonic rogu- eries, wheel within wheel, defy all reckoning: a suspicion, in one word, th...

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...h, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the great lakes of Canada. The second region begins where the other terminates, and i... ...at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas. The great lakes which bound this first region are not walled in, like most of those i... ...he north, from whence it rose; and at length, after having been delayed in lakes and marshes, it flows slowly onwards to the south. Sometimes quietly ... ...he State are surprisingly great; a canal has been established between Lake Erie and the Ohio, by means of which the valley of the Mississippi communic... ...erns what is right. But the demagogues of Europe have made strange discov- eries. A republic is not, according to them, the rule of the majority, as h... ...ts of the ideal in what is real and true, abandon them entirely and create monsters. I do not fear that the poetry of democratic nations will prove to...

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... go round the world, and play at give and take with giants and dragons and monsters, and hear hissings and roarings and bellowings and howlings; and e... ...tter inclemency of the winter winds and frosts; let no lions daunt him, no monsters terrify him, no dragons make him quail; for to seek these, to atta... ...me time to investigate and explore the origin and true source of the seven lakes com- monly called the lakes of Ruidera. Don Diego and his son commend... ... in con- ducting him to the mouth of the very cave, and would show him the lakes of Ruidera, which were likewise famous all over La Mancha, and even a... ...t of the compas- sion he seems to have felt for them, changed into so many lakes, which to this day in the world of the living, and in the province of... ...y arm can do? See what ruffians and villains come out against me; see what monsters oppose me; see what hideous countenances come to frighten us! You ... ... hack.” “If you are a jester, brother,” said the duenna, “keep your droll- eries for some place where they’ll pass muster and be paid for; for you’ll ... ... heard just what thou hast told me of the valour of the one and the droll- eries of the other; and what is more, of him they say that he is the most c... ...uixote never be cured, for by his recovery we lose not only his own droll- eries, but his squire Sancho Panza’s too, any one of which is enough to tur...

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...ote would not be recognized as true to nature. In the stone age, among the lake dwellers, among the cave men, there were Don Quixotes and Sancho Panza... ...ts of the Round Table was instituted, and the amour of Don Lancelot of the Lake with the Queen Guinevere occurred, pre- cisely as is there related, th... ...s savage howl, The horrid hissing of the scaly snake, The awesome cries of monsters yet unnamed, The crow’s ill-boding croak, the hollow moan Of wild ... ... foot of man nor sunbeam falls; Or in among the poison-breathing swarms Of monsters nourished by the sluggish Nile. For, though it be to solitudes rem... ...nquil, in somewhat less than nine years you may come in sight of the great lake Meona, I mean Meotides, which is little more than a hundred days’ jour... ...ded prodigal; and if any soldiers are to be found who are misers, they are monsters of rare occurrence. My father went beyond liberality and bordered ... ... hack.” “If you are a jester, brother,” said the duenna, “keep your droll- eries for some place where they’ll pass muster and be paid for; for you’ll ... ... heard just what thou hast told me of the valour of the one and the droll- eries of the other; and what is more, of him they say that he is the most c... ...uixote never be cured, for by his recovery we lose not only his own droll- eries, but his squire Sancho Panza’s too, any one of which is enough to tur...

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...en the lofty pillars are swathed from top to bottom in tight fitting drap eries. The cathedral is dedicated to St. Lorenzo. On St. Lorenzo’s day, we ... ...cient buildings, of a sombre brown, embellished with innumerable grotesque monsters and dreamy looking creatures carved in marble and red stone—are cl... ...outing, with their horses’ heels, the grif fins, lions, tigers, and other monsters in stone and marble, decorating its exterior. First, there came a ... ...th more birds flying in and out of chinks in the stones; and more snarling monsters for the bases of the pillars. Again, rich churches, drowsy Masses,... ...to the Lord Mayor of London; or how the town of Vevey, lying on the smooth lake of Geneva, was beautiful to see; or how the statue of Saint Peter in t... ...treets, in a very melancholy manner: we came, at dusk, within sight of the Lake of Bolsena, on whose bank there is a little town of the same name, muc... ...e exception of this poor place, there is not a cottage on the banks of the lake, or near it (for nobody dare sleep there); not a boat upon its waters;...

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...his cour- age was great, he was the chief of many villages round the great lake that is in the middle of our coun- try as the heart is in the middle o... ...ds of the earth, its sacred places, its temples and its houses, peopled by monsters— by monsters of duplicity, lust, and murder. She was a monster—he ... ... 162 Tales of Unrest trees soared up, invisible behind the festooned drap- eries of creepers. Here and there, near the glistening blackness of the wat...

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...d stories in the English tongue, and Scotland will hold him dear while her lakes and mountains last. Released from this dreaded enemy, the King made a... ...nother, false to their country, false to Heaven, false to Earth, should be monsters of ingratitude and treach ery to a helpless peasant girl. In the ... ... sent a prisoner to Lochleven Castle; which, as it stood in the midst of a lake, could only be approached by boat. Here, one Lord Lindsy, who was so ... ...n the castle of Lochleven, dull prison as it was, with the rippling of the lake against it, and the moving shadows of the water on the room walls; but... ...s of human nature. He came to the English throne with great ease. The mis eries of a disputed succession had been felt so long, and so dreadfully, th... ...ve been satisfied. But no; he let loose upon them, among other intolerable monsters, a Colonel Kirk, who had served against the Moors, and whose sold...

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...t his house, gave me my present name. He had been reading the “Lady of the Lake,” and was pleased to regard me as a suitable per- son to wear this, on... ... her grand old woods, her fertile fields, her beautiful rivers, her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy i... ...there was in Boston, near the south-west corner of Boston Common, a menag- erie. I had long desired to see such a collection as I under- stood was bei... ...there will be agitation. Nature must cease to be nature; men must be- come monsters; humanity must be transformed; Christian- ity must be exterminated... ...chester; and travelers have told me it casts its gloomy shadows across the lake, approaching the very shores of Queen Victoria’s do- minions. The pres...

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...est are kept to eleven. The meaner families who have children at these nurs eries, are obliged, besides their annual pension, which is as low as poss... ...n the air, that at first I certainly thought it was thunder. Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping hooks in their hand... ...l lotted them. When I happened to behold the reflection of my own form in a lake or fountain, I turned away my face in horror and detestation of myse... ...hich made me less for ward to enlarge his majesty’s dominions by my discov eries. To say the truth, I had conceived a few scruples with relation to ...

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...ics S onic Classics S onic Classics S onic Classics S onic Classics Series eries eries eries eries P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublicatio... ...account of its depressed level, received the sewage of the city, and had a lake, has been raised by artificial accu- mulation to a height with the oth... ... horseman would put him to, and creates me so many chimaeras and fantastic monsters, one upon another, without order or design, that, the better at le... ... and deformed, and there it is indeed, that men may justly represent those monsters upon rocks and precipices. If this pupil shall happen to be of so ... ...ost accommodated to the capacity of my age: for as for the Lancelot of the Lake, the Amadis of Gaul, the Huon of Bordeaux, and such farragos, by which... ...out not in cups, but in bits.”—Ovid, Trist., iii. 10, 23.] At the mouth of Lake Maeotis the frosts are so very sharp, that in the very same place wher...

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...r farm, that spread along the top of a slope just beyond the narrow little lake of Willey Water. Shortlands looked across a sloping meadow that might ... ..., solitary trees that stood here and there, across the water of the narrow lake, at the wooded hill that successfully hid the colliery valley beyond, ... ...or park. The view was pleasant; a highroad curving round the edge of a low lake, under the trees. In the spring air, the water gleamed and the opposit... ...arry him—for you even more than for him.’ Hermione lapsed into bitter rev- erie. ‘He is so uncertain, so unstable—he wearies, and then reacts. I could... ...without man. God could do without the ichthyosauri and the mastodon. These monsters failed creatively to de- velop, so God, the creative mystery, disp...

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...d who used to be mentioned in our nurs- ery with bated breath as a kind of monsters or criminals. I believe our mother laboured under a perpetual fear... ...o abstain. I hear of carpets, curtains, and pictures in the existing nurs- eries. They must be palaces compared with our great bare attic, where nothi... ...t then was the pet Christian name of romance, in honour of the Lady of the Lake. In the midst of her raptures, however, just as we were about to turn ... ...ts, while Clarence turned over the leaves; and I read over The Lady of the Lake, a study which I always felt, and still feel, as an act of homage to E...

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... a marsh into a mass of fragrance sur- rounded by living waters; placing a lake at the top of a hill, as the Prince de Conti did at Nointel; or produc... ... scended to kick downstairs.” “W retches!” interrupted Lucien, “say rather monsters, com- pared with whom those who are guillotined are angels. Do you... ... death of us.” This noble magistrate knew all the fascination and the mis- eries of an illicit attachment. Esther and Lucien, as we have seen, had tak...

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...is unchallenged state, in general, to the fact that Mrs. Newsome’s discov- eries were accepted at Woollett; but he knew in his bones, our friend did, ... ...metimes an actress, an artist, a great performer—but only when they’re not monsters; and in particular the right femmes du monde. You can fancy his hi... ...vents to the mention of her having met the young thing—again by some Swiss lake—in her first married state, which had appeared for the few intermediat...

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... the people, that we beheld are of a tall stature. 34 There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we ... ...ere in the cities of Ceni, 30 And that were in Arama, and that were in the lake Asan, and that were in Athach, 31 And that were in Hebron, and to the ... ...nseless children, to mock them. 26 But they that were not amended by mock- eries and reprehensions, experienced the worthy judgment of God. 27 For see... ...st hell, slept the same sleep, 14 Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul fail- ing them: for a sudden a... ...the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches. 14 And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry out one to another, there... ...d they ed into the desert of Thecua, and they pitched by the water of the lake Asphar, 34 And Bacchides understood it, and he came himself, with all ... ...n the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth, 2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the sher...

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... something as illusive as that.” He paused again, dreaming, lost in a rev- erie, then, just above a whisper, murmured: “‘That which thou sowest is not... ...walks lay vague amid the grasses, like webs of white satin on the bed of a lake. Against the east- ern wall the headstones of the graves, an indistinc... ...ind, bound, tricked, betrayed, can you not see it? Can you not see how the monsters have plundered your treasures and holding them in the grip of thei...

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...n Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford is a publica... ...advancing tribes. The Finlanders live in a land of marshes and mountains, lakes and rivers, seas, gulfs, islands, and inlets, and they call themselve... ...hat the map of Finland is to this day full of names like Pyhojarvi (sacred lake) and Pyhajoki (sacred river). Some of the Finlanders still offer goat... ...overtake the offender within a year, in punishment for his sacrilege. The lake, Eim, is still held sacred by the Esthonians, and the Eim legend is th... ... distinguished by their cunning and ferocity from the stupid, good natured monsters of Germany and Scandinavia.” Soini, for example a synonym of Kulle... ... rampart, T urn their horrid heads to meet thee; On the greensward lie the monsters, On the ground the things of evil, With their pliant tongues of ve... ...hero stumble On the serpents of the Northland; With my heel I’ll crush the monsters, Stamp the horrid things to atoms; I will banish them from Pohya, ...

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...man of the woods or of any farm life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada, Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self balanced for ... ...inds! Land of the eastern Chesapeake! land of the Delaware! Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land... ...loughs, the mower mows, and the winter grain falls in the ground; Off on the lakes the pike fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface... ... Elkhorn in my deer skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye; At home on Kan... ... assume manifold shapes, In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low, In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky, Leav... ...n Oregon, or away southward in Texas, Some in the north finding their way to Erie, Niagara, Ottawa, Some to Atlantica’s bays, and so to the great salt... ...l pleased America thou beholdest, Over the fields of the West those crawling monsters, The human divine inventions, the labor saving implements; Behol...

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...er and gold. The shadows lengthened and crept out like stealthy, gro tesque monsters across the grass. Edna and Robert both sat upon the ground—that ... ...pe. The softest carpets and rugs covered the floors; rich and tasteful drap eries hung at doors and windows. There were paintings, selected with judg... ...tomed volubility into silence. He seemed to have abandoned himself to a rev erie, and to be seeing pleasing visions in the amber bead. “Sing,” entrea... ...cows, the mules! About riding to the mill behind Gluglu; fishing back in the lake with their Uncle Jasper; picking pecans with Lidie’s little black br... ...rkies laying the cane, to thrash the pecan trees, and catch fish in the back lake. She lived with them a whole week long, giving them all of herself, ... ...co. When Arobin, one night, urged her to drive with him, she went—out to the lake, on the Shell Road. His horses were full of mettle, and even a littl...

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...Aeacus’ son: “Achilles, all the air about mine ears Is full of multitudinous eries, is full Of thunder of battle rolling nearer aye. Let us go forth t... ...thine — She sits in barren crypts of brine: she dwells Glorying mid dumb sea monsters and mid fish, Deedless, unseen! Nothing I reck of her, Nor rank... ...in his wrath Apollo shot, and laid him low, who seemed Invincible: in a foul lake of gore There lay he, covering many a rood of ground, On the broad e... ...ang, A sound as when fleet flying cranes forebode A great storm. Moaned the monsters of the deep Plaintively round that train of mourners. Fast On s... ... The Fall of Troy 76 And there triumphant the Earth shaker rode Amid sea monsters’ stormy footed steeds Drew him, and seemed alive, as o’er the de... ...he war lord Alexinomus, Who dwelt in Caunus mountain cradled, nigh The clear lake shining at Tarbelus’ feet ‘Neath snow capt Imbrus. Menes, fleetfoot...

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...s forbear To turn them o’er, lest they should only find Nothing but savage monsters of a mind,— No shapen beauteous thoughts; yet when the wise Seriou... ...e noble table writ In the old Egyptian hieroglyphic wit; Where, though you monsters and grotescoes see, You meet all mysteries of philosophy. For he w... ...eing sufficient for the forging of Hercules, who cleansed the world of the monsters and tyrants wherewith it was suppressed. My masters, the ancient P... ... and seller of eggshells. Priamus, a seller of old clouts. Lancelot of the Lake was a flayer of dead horses. All the Knights of the Round Table were p... ... was Mephitis, or the marshes of the Camerina, or the abominably unsavoury lake of Sorbona, whereof Strabo maketh mention. And had it not been that th... ...the Switzers and earnestly perpend with thyself there the situation of the lake of Wunderberlich, about four leagues distant from Berne, on the Syon-s... ...637 Rabelais through the universe, an end of all wars, plunderings, drudg- eries, robbing, assassinates, unless it be to destroy these cursed rebels t... ... his busi- ness to rid the world of tyrannies, errors, dangers, and drudg- eries; he still put to death all robbers, all monsters, all ven- omous serp...

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...ill we rely on the new; and so we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. And yet the compensations of calamity are made... ... wonderful forms of men, of women, of animals, of gardens, of woods and of monsters, and the mystic pencil wherewith we then draw has no awkwardness o... ...s impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures 186 Essays and statues are. Nothing less th... ... is it that we seek, in so many visits and hospitalities? Is it your drap- eries, pictures, and decorations? Or do we not insatiably ask, Was a man in... ... and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odor- ous south wind, which converts all trees ... ...is never far off. We can find these enchantments without visiting the Como Lake, or the Madeira Islands. We exaggerate the praises of local scenery. I...

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...ructer, imbusmd in woods, and circumwented by beautiful gardings. Theres a lake in front with boatsful of nobillaty and musitions floting on its placi... ... country north-eastward, and had the honor of fighting by the side of Lord Lake at Laswaree, Deeg, Furruckabad, Futtyghur, and Bhurtpore: but I will n... ... * As I had distinguished myself not a little during the war, Gen- eral Lake sent me up with despatches to Calcutta, where Lord Wellesley received ... ... had all the keys of the gates; and in his tremor, as he opened the menag- erie portal, left the whole bunch in the door, which I seized when the anim... ...ng wretches! England can never be a happy country until every one of these monsters is exter- minated!” or else, adopting a strain of still more savag... ...eroes must be buried in the bosoms of Frenchmen: but so be it: it is those monsters who have asked for blood, not we. It is those ruffi- ans who have ...

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...ics S onic Classics S onic Classics S onic Classics S onic Classics Series eries eries eries eries P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublicatio... ...on me as an hereditary charge, for I have natu- rally an aversion to those monsters; and if I have a mind to laugh at a fool, I need not seek him far;... ...e is bearded, has desire, and seeks contact with women. Those that we call monsters are not so to God, who sees in the immensity of His work the infin... ...shades, struck the son of Phoebus with his forked lightning to the Stygian lake.”—Æneid, vii. 770.] and his followers be pardoned, who send so many so...

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...aightway in silence fell the shaggy cheeks Of him the boatman o’er the livid lake, Around whose eyes glar’d wheeling flames. Meanwhile Those spirits, ... ...rneying by their side, Enter’d, though by a different track, beneath. Into a lake, the Stygian nam’d, expands The dismal stream, when it hath reach’d ... ... “Master! him fain would I behold Whelm’d in these dregs, before we quit the lake.” He thus: “Or ever to thy view the shore Be offer’d, satisfied... ...s ribs. All teeming nature, when her plastic hand Left framing of these monsters, did display Past doubt her wisdom, taking from mad War Such sla... ...Eric VII king of Denmark, A D. 1288, commenced a war against his successor, Erie VIII, “which continued for nine years, almost to the utter ruin an...

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...us in Pomerania, could not entirely dispel this prejudice, which the mock- eries of the courtiers continued to feed. He was called in Vienna the Snow ... ...aximilian, the leader of the League, to feel in his own dominions the mis- eries he had inflicted upon others. Neither the terrible fate of his allies... ...omenon; the blind zeal of the priests represented them to the peasantry as monsters, the children of hell, and their leader as Antichrist. No wonder, ... ...nforced, threatened Wuertemberg. At his approach, the enemy retired to the Lake of Constance, but only to show the Swedes the road into a district hit... ...ur, to prevent the en- emy from throwing supplies into the town, which the lake afforded them convenient op- portunity of doing. He, therefore, after ... ...er in Wuertemberg, the latter in Upper Suabia, in the neighbourhood of the Lake of Constance. On the extreme north of this lake, and on the most south...

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...y En- glish-speaking, English-thinking person who lives south of the Great Lakes. So long as men are content to work in the 21 H G Wells grooves set ... ...ction of employment below the minimum wage, would have swept out the rook- eries and hiding-places of these people of the Abyss. They would exist, but... ...and Co.’s Living Animals of the World, the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson’s Extinct Monsters, the Badminton vol- umes on big game shooting, mountaineering, and...