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..., and devised for him the toil of a troublous voyage, in order that on the sea or among strangers he might lose his home return. (ll. 18 22) The ship... ...t now I will tell the lineage and the names of the heroes, and of the long sea paths and the deeds they wrought in their wanderings; may the Muses be ... ... of the Thespians, well skilled to foretell the ris ing wave on the broad sea, and well skilled to infer from sun and star the stormy winds and the t... ...fore it proved the most excellent of all ships that have made trial of the sea with oars. (ll. 115 11 7) After them came Phlias from Araethyrea, wher... ...mighty Tityos, bare to Poseidon. He was wont to skim the swell of the grey sea, and wetted not his swift feet, but just dipping the tips of his toes w... ...om Aenete the daughter of goodly Eusorus bare. But these men the Earthborn monsters, fearful though they were, in nowise harried, owing to the pro te... ...he younger he roes and he quickly bent his back springing bow against the monsters and brought them to earth one after an other; and they in their t... ...ey in their turn raised huge ragged rocks and hurled them. For these dread monsters too, I ween, the goddess Hera, bride of Zeus, had nurtured to be a... ... that, once sodden with brine, they may receive the strong bolts; so these monsters at the en trance of the foam fringed harbour lay stretched one af...

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...tween me and the deserted “Rescue” like the smooth hazy spaces of a dreamy sea. Yet I never actually lost sight of that dark speck in the misty distan... ...AIM OF LIFE AND THE TOLL OF DEATH PART I. THE MAN AND THE BRIG THE SHALLOW SEA that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand islands, big and l... ...eir lawful and unlawful instincts. Their country of land and water—for the sea was as much their country as the earth of their islands—has fallen a pr... ...and intelligence; who had only his sympathy with the people of forests and sea he un- derstood and loved so well. They can not be said to be forgotten... ...etween the deep waters of two oceans. I OUT OF THE LEVEL BLUE of a shallow sea Carimata raises a lofty barrenness of grey and yellow tints, the drab e... ...ftly. “One comes across monstrous things. But I assure you that of all the monsters that wait on what you would call a normal existence the one I drea...

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.... Kind? what kind? Chimeras, crotchets, Christmas solecisms, Seven-headed monsters only made to kill Time by the fire in winter.’ ... ... half in doze I seemed To float about a glimmering night, and watch A full sea glazed with muffled moonlight, swell On some dark shore just seen that ... ...abours for the world. Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolli... ... are used to that: for women, up till this Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo, Dwarfs of the gynæceum, fail so far In high desire, they kn... ...ow, I thought, That surely she will speak; if not, then I: Did she? These monsters blazoned what they were, According to the coarseness of their kind... ...r will, and everything was changed. Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea; The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape With fold to ... ...k cloud Drag inward from the deeps, a wall of night, Blot out the slope of sea from verge to shore, And suck the blinding splendour from the sand, And...

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...s supply , (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. Nothin... ...l’d the food, Taught to command the fire, controul the flood, Draw forth the monsters of th’ abyss profound, Or fetch th’ aerial eagle to the ground, ... ...etna, if a sage requires, Forget to thunder, and recall her fires? On air or sea new motions be imprest, Oh blameless Bethel! to relieve thy breast? W... ... these betray . Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows, From dirt and sea–weed as proud Venice rose; In each how guilt and greatness equal ran,...

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... they who bang the drum outnumber the silent ones as do the billows of the sea the ships that swim, or the grains of sand the trees that grow; a noisy... ...anches in a wind, and the puckers of her visage moved as do billows of the sea to and fro, and the anticipations of a fair young bride are not more ea... ...ued their journey toward the mountains and across the desert that was as a sea asleep in the blazing heat, and the sun till his setting threw no shade... ...t approach me?’ And he replied: Long we the less for the pearl of the sea 36 The Shaving of Shagpat Because in its depths there ‘s the deat... ...ain-rise; below them the sun, shooting a current of gold across leagues of sea. Then he that had spoken with Bhanavar said, ‘A sail will come,’ and a ... ...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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...would be at Jerusalem on that day—to purchase eighteen shirts and lay in a sea stock of Russia ducks,—was the work of four-and-twenty hours; and on th... ...- surable distance. The ship went rolling over a heavy, swelter- ing, calm sea. The breeze was a warm and soft one; quite different to the rigid air w... ...h. The sight of that noble scene cured all the woes and discom- fitures of sea-sickness at once, and if there were any need to 6 Notes on a Journey f... ...s of a bull-fight, to take place the next evening (there was no opera that sea- son); but it was not a real Spanish tauromachy—only a theat- rical com... ...bright and pleasant remains the recollection of the fine city and the blue sea, and the Spanish flags floating on the boats that danced over it, and J... ...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...

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...e sermon was, ‘Thine heart shall be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea shall be con- verted unto thee, the forces also of the Gentiles shall c... ...John Thynne, with whom he was to go through Italy. The journey was made by sea from Marseilles to Naples, where the old regime was still in force. Sha... ...ch a state as to involve a reaction of feeling. Of course if I am seedy at sea for a few days I shall feel low-spirited also most likely, and miss you... ...here are a few extracts from Patteson’s journal- letter during the voyage. Sea-sickness was very slightly dis- abling with him; he was up and about in... ...th anni- versary of my baptism to begin with, and then Easter Day spent at sea! ‘ April 20th, lat, 4° N., long. 25° W .—Rather hot. It is very fine to... ... even in a small parish to stand up and fight against so many many- headed monsters. I should give in, and shirk the contest. The more I pray that you...

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...wers massed pallid under the gaslight of the market-hall. For himself, the sea and the sunlight opened great spaces tomorrow. The moon was full above ... ...she lay curled up asleep at the core of the glamour, like the moon; on the sea rocking backwards and forwards till it rocked her island as she slept. ... ... of Wight, tomorrow. Helena, with her blue eyes so full of storm, like the sea, but, also like the sea, so eternally self-sufficient, solitary; with ... ..., silken and light as wind- flowers, would be his tomorrow, along with the sea and the downs. He clung to the exquisite flame which flooded him.... Bu... ... a kaleidoscope down the street. The train crawled on, drawing near to the sea, for which Siegmund waited breathless. It was so like Helena, blue, bea... ...swelling, like the mooing of some great sea animal, alone, the last of the monsters. The whole fog gave off the sound for a second or two, then it die... ...hips slowly realizing before him. In the bay were two battleships, uncouth monsters, lying as naïve and curi- ous as sea-lions strayed afar. Siegmund ... ... mate, amid red flowers of flags, and soft birds of ships, and slow-moving monsters of steamboats. ‘For me the day is transparent and shrivelling. I c...

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...things that make and pass, striving upon a hidden mission, out to the open sea. To Frederick Soddy’s INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM This story, which owes l... ...and carved wood, made pottery, paddled down his river until he came to the sea, discovered the wheel and made the first roads. But his chief activity ... ...tine and the field,’ thought Holsten, ‘there have also been wonder and the sea.’ He turned his head and looked up over the back of the seat at the gre... ...the world’s roads was instantaneous. In three years the frightful armoured monsters that had hooted and smoked and thundered about the world for four ... ...and the gradual cleansing of the Lon- don atmosphere as the smoke-creating sea-coal fires gave place to electric heating. The building of laboratories... ...the crowing of cocks…. The sky above the indistinct horizons of this cloud sea was at first starry and then paler with a light that crept from north t...

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...shrill sounding throat Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To h... ..., Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o’er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your ... ... 21 Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath. HAMLET: It waves... ...uffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; an... ..., if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell. ... ...NG CLAUDIUS : What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? QUEEN GERTRUDE : Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend Which is the mightier: in his lawless fi...

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...deed an “extensive Volume,” of boundless, almost formless contents, a very Sea of Thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will; yet wherein the tough-... ...gh- est pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients. Directly on the first perusal, almost on t... ...ean in his exterior and environ- ment, we seem to look into a whole inward Sea of Light and Love;—though, alas, the grim coppery clouds soon roll toge... ...mong beech-rows, through river after river, into the Donau, into the Black Sea, into the Atmosphere and Universe; and how “the brave old Linden,” stre... ... Self-help. Nevertheless a desert this was, waste, and howling with savage monsters. Teufelsdrockh gives us long details of his “fever-paroxysms of Do... ...d? Say rather, heart swelling in presence of the Queen of Hearts; like the Sea swelling when once near its Moon! With the Wanderer it was even so: as ...

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...ishop to greet the gathering daylight. It became a little clamour, a misty sea of sound in which individuality appeared and disappeared. For a time a ... ... Day of Judgment was com- ing in the sky and the earth was opening and the sea was giving up its dead. He’d send ‘em to the seaside. Such things as th... ...e rebels against that high God of the stars and crys- tals and poisons and monsters and of the dead emptiness of space…. The Manicheans and the Persia... ...t the world—and then suddenly walked out through a door and discovered the sea and the mountains and stars. So it was with me and the Anglican Church.... ...shells and rifle fire and the smoke and flame of burning brushwood. In the sea of Marmora a big ship crowded with T urkish troops was sinking; and, pu... ...trained as nurses go nor very well-educated women, were snatching a little sea air upon the front after an eventful night. They were too excited still...

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...night the tracks made by day, and also by boats which cross the arm of the sea that makes the port of Croisic. This fascinating little town is therefo... ... carriage in Guerande, that of a lady or some invalid going to Croisic for sea-bathing (thought to have greater virtue among those rocks than at Boulo... ...ful mall which surrounds the town from gate to gate on the side toward the sea. Sometimes the image of this town arises in the temple of memory; she e... ...ed to Guerande in 1813, as quietly and simply as if he had merely passed a sea- son at Nantes. During his stay in Dublin the old Breton, despite his f... ... Republic, his exile, the perils of his five crossings through a turbulent sea in open boats, had weighed upon his head, and he looked a hun- dred; th... ...e you most unhappy; for I am jealous. I see lions lurking in the path, and monsters in drops of water. I am made wretched by trifles that most women p...

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...he second attempt was more disastrous. In a garden outside the city on the sea-shore, he con- structed, with the help of the gardener, a Spaniard, a h... ... thou see thou art carrying water to the cat: Biscayan on land, hidalgo at sea, hidalgo at the devil, and look, if thou sayest otherwise thou liest.” ... ...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 ... ...ll-boding croak, the hollow moan Of wild winds wrestling with the restless sea, The wrathful bellow of the vanquished bull, The plaintive sobbing of t... ...9 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. Or in among the poison-breathing swarms Of monsters nourished by the sluggish Nile. For, though it be to solitudes rem... ...Don Quixote. “That,” said the galley slave, “is like a man having money at sea when he is dying of hunger and has no way of buying what he wants; I sa... ...heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to throw water into the sea. If I had believed thy words, I should have avoided this trouble; but i... ...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 ... ...tes of Hircania, all those palfreys, and damsels-errant, and serpents, and monsters, and giants, and marvellous adventures, and enchantments of every ...

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...d up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist. In the c... ...rom Sulaco for a change of air and write a few pages of the “Mirror of the Sea.” But gener- ally, as I’ve said before, my sojourn on the Conti- nent o... ...rt with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo. The clumsy deep-sea galle- ons of the conquerors that, needing a brisk gale to move at all,... ...urning draperies of cloud. On one side of this broad curve in the straight sea- board of the Republic of Costaguana, the last spur of the coast range ... ...p rocks and stony levels cut about by vertical ravines. It lies far out to sea like a rough head of stone stretched from a green-clad coast at the end... ..., and European fur- niture, low, and cushioned all over, like squat little monsters gorged to bursting with steel springs and horsehair. There were kn...

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...ght spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world. 15 Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2. IN WHICH... ...ent its philosophical composure from being disturbed by the rolling of the sea. Such extraordinary precautions were taken in every instance to save ro... ...tself, partaking of the general infection, seemed almost to become a snug, sea- going, ship-shape concern, wanting only good sea-room, in the event of... ...lf to a second glass of the old Madeira, with increased relish. ‘As to the Sea,’ he pursued, ‘that’s well enough in fic- tion, Wally, but it won’t do ... ... rubbed his hands with an air of stealthy en- joyment, as he talked of the sea, though; and looked on the seafaring objects about him with inexpressib... ...e knows all about the deep sea, and the fish that are in it, and the great monsters that come and lie on rocks in the sun, and dive into the water aga...

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... of the floor and the bare brown surround were the water channels and open sea of that continent of mine. I still remember with infinite gratitude the... ...s—Oh, God! one wants a gale out of Heaven, one wants a great wind from the sea! 3 3 3 3 3 While I lived at Penge two little things happened to me, tri... ...London. It became tangible instead of being a frame almost as universal as sea and sky. 84 The New Machiavelli At Cambridge my ideas ceased to live i... ...been presented to me in my schooldays not so much as men as the pantomimic monsters of political caricature, while I was getting them reduced in my im... ...ad made them wealthy, had cut their chil- dren off from the general social sea in which their own awk- ward meeting had occurred, without necessarily ... ...nd sunlight accumu- lators. Altiora thought trees hopelessly irregular and sea cliffs a great mistake… . I got things clearer as time went on. Though... ...ne sees at night about Lambeth is minute and pitiful beside the industrial monsters that snort and toil there—mix up inextricably with my memories of ...

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...pact body—a movement suggesting the scramble for places in a life- boat at sea—and were engulfed in its large interior. Then the life-boat—or the life... ...h his crayon poised. “My dear Eugenia,” he murmured, “were you so happy at sea?” Eugenia got up; she still held in her hand the drawing her brother ha... ...ttle of it,” the young man rejoined. “But it was all over there—beyond the sea. I don’t see any here. This is a paradise.” Gertrude said nothing; she ... ...n the Celestial Empire: pagodas of ebony and cabinets of ivory; sculptured monsters, grinning and leer- ing on chimney-pieces, in front of beautifully... ...w, the relations of young people are so extraordinary that one is quite at sea. They are not engaged when you would quite say they ought to be. Take C...

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...hen he was seasick, and he was frequently seasick, was still master of the sea. Benham developed two leading ideas about fear; one that it is worse at... ...ich and the towed liners, the inces- sant tugs, the heaving portals of the sea…. His time was far too occupied for him to carry out a tithe of these e... ...ect it can achieve! There is something in those downland views which, like sea views, lifts a mind out to the skies. All England it seemed was there t... ...ducts of the “life force” and resumed his pensive survey of the coast. The sea was deserted save for a couple of little lateen craft with suns painted... ...or a couple of little lateen craft with suns painted on their gaudy sails, sea butterflies that hung motionless as if unawakened close inshore…. The t... ... that, with the convic- tion that headless, soulless, blood-drinking metal monsters were breeding all about me. I felt that science was producing a po...

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...her. Anyhow, I comes back. London’s my mark. Says I, I’ll see a bit o’ the sea, and steps aboard a collier. We were as nigh wrecked as the prophet Pau... ... your Bible,” said the tinker. “We pitched and tossed—’tain’t that game at sea ’tis on land, I can tell ye! I thinks, down we’re a-going—say your pray... ...rth! Now those abominations whom you call precocious boys— your little pet monsters, doctor!—and who can wonder that the world is what it is? when it ... ...of prejudice she had to contend against. She bowed, and said, Clare wanted sea-air—she had never quite recovered the shock of that dreadful night. How... ...chard tell him Mrs. Forey’s address? he had heard she was somewhere by the sea. Richard did not remember the address, but said he would willingly take... ...nnocents! The tide of colour has ebbed from the upper sky. In the West the sea of sunken fire draws back; and the stars leap forth, and tremble, and r... ...et rooted out their old brood of dragons. Wherever there is romance, these monsters come by inimical attraction. Because the heavens are certainly pro...