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...rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company. But this extraordinary cre... ...me of their native town, Cape Horn. The course was taken towards the north-west, and the next day the screw of the frigate was at last beating the wa-... ...quator on the 110th meridian. This passed, the frigate took a more decided westerly direction, and scoured the central waters of the Pacific. Commande... ...xtends from north to south between the two Polar Circles, and from east to west between Asia and America, over an extent of 145 degrees of longitude. ... ...ded by Legoarant de Tromelin, to Vanikoro, which had been stationed on the west coast of America. The Bayonnaise cast her an- 98 20,000 Leagues Under... ...ity. To- 246 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea wards evening it approached the Falkland group, the rough summits of which I recognised the following day. ... ...oon took their places in the pantry on board. When the last heights of the Falklands had disappeared from the horizon, the Nautilus sank to between tw...

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... giant height: Their armour, as it caught the rays, Flashed back again the western blaze, In lines of dazzling light. 12 Marmion II. Saint George’... ...th uncertain thought: Even then he mustered all his host, To meet upon the western coast: For Norse and Danish galleys plied Their oars within the fri... ...And from the southern Redswire edge, To farthest Rosse’s rocky ledge; From west to east, from south to north. Scotland sent all her warriors forth. Ma... ...ry is shown - Yet bent beneath the standard’s weight Whene’er the western wind unrolled, With toil, the huge and cumbrous fold, And gave t... ... me remind of peaceful game, When blither was their cheer, Thrilling in Falkland woods the air, 116 Marmion In signal none his steed should spare,... ...Scott That hung o’er cliff, and lake, and tower, Thou gleam’st against the western ray Ten thousand lines of brighter day. Not she, the championess...

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...le and warehouse of whatever Commerce there was between the Indian and the Western countries, Syria, Egypt, even Italy. It had at one time a populatio... ... one time a population of 100,000; buyers, forwarders of those Eastern and Western products; importers for their own behoof of provisions and corn. Th... ... high as Heaven; “We are such stuff as Dreams are made of!” That scroll in Westminster Abbey, which few read with understanding, is of the depth of an... ... but a small fraction of the English: in America, in New Holland, east and west to the very Antipodes, there will be a Saxondom covering great spaces ... ...ero-worship fail in Knox’s case? Or are we made of other clay now? Did the Westminster Confession of Faith add some new property to the soul of man? G... ...y; and he looked so strange, among the elegant Eu- phemisms, dainty little Falklands, didactic Chillingworths, diplomatic Clarendons! Consider him. An...

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... with the noble Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Locksley and Huntingdon. The abbey of Rubygill stood in a picturesque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by nature to be the retreat of monastic mortification, being on the banks of a fine trout-stream, and in the midst of woodland coverts, abounding with excell...

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...y of Rubygill stood in a pictur esque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by na... ...you undertake that?” “Will I undertake,” said the friar, “to make T rent run west ward, or to make flame burn downward, or to make a tree grow with i... ...whetting his own indigna tion against them, the sun was fast sinking to the west. They rode on till they came in view of a bridge, which they saw a p... ...his sword, and the squire proceeded; “Sir Ralph met you, as you quitted Lady Falkland’s castle, and by representing to her who you were, borrowed from...

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...he king- dom, David, Duke of Rothesay, had been thrown into the dungeon of Falkland Castle by his barbarous uncle, the Duke of Albany, there to be sta... ...‘To arms! To arms! Sir Consul, Lars Porsena is here.’ On the low hills to westward The Consul fixed his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of dust Rise... ...alled Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. A wall had once been built across the western-most of these narrow places, when the Thessalians and Phocians, who... ...eemed to have been made, and the Roman legions were guarding the north and west, while Caesar himself had crossed the Alps. Subjec- tion pressed heavi... ...y, before the Moors had been expelled from the peninsula, or the blight of Western gold had enervated the nation, the old honor and loyalty of the Got... ...ho V. called El Bravo, ventured to invest the city of Tarifa. This was the western buttress of the gate of the Mediterra- nean, the base of the northe... ...e had shown great petulance at receiving orders from the King through Lord Falkland. At eight o’clock, on the morning of the 23rd of October, King Cha...

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...the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action includes Six Days, and ... ... vigor with the hope returned, With flying foot the heath he spurned, Held westward with unwearied race, And left behind the panting chase. VI. ‘T wer... ...ace they take. VIII. The Hunter marked that mountain high, The lone lake’s western boundary, And deemed the stag must turn to bay, Where that huge ram... ...aused, so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it showed. XI. The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o’er the glen their level way; Each purp... ...ell in streamers green, kind creeping shrubs of thousand dyes Waved in the west-wind’s summer sighs. 11 Sir Walter Scott XII. Boon nature scattered, ... ...them the victory in every conflict. At length, the king, while residing at Falkland, contrived to escape by night out of his own court and palace, and...

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... and danced with fury around the devoted cottage, my eyes still fixed on the western horizon, the edge of which the moon nearly touched. A part of its... ...liberty. The memory of that unfortunate king and his companions, the amiable Falkland, the insolent Goring, his queen, and son, gave a peculiar inter... ...m Derby, still journeying northwards, we passed two months in Cumberland and Westmorland. I could now al most fancy myself among the Swiss mountains.... ...other novelties. We had scarcely visited the various lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland and conceived an affection for some of the inhabitants when t... ...The wind, which had fallen in the south, now rose with great violence in the west. The moon had reached her sum Frankenstein 149 mit in the heavens ... ...ind us and was driven with force towards the north; a breeze sprang from the west, and on the 11th the passage towards the south became perfectly free...

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...nd settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled in the West, and called their kingdom Wessex; the Northfolk, or Norfolk people, es... ...d been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the foundation of a temple to ... ... proposed peace: on condition that they should altogether depart from that Western part of England, and settle in the East; and that Guthrum should b... ...r anybody to care much about him. On Christmas Day, William was crowned in Westminster Abbey, under the title of William the First; but he is best kn... ...the Red King, being a Sunday, Fine Scholar stood before the high altar in Westminster Abbey, and made a solemn declaration that he would resign the C... ...of his men, that he died within a week), at Newbury (in which battle Lord Falkland , one of the best noblemen on the King’s side, was killed), at Lei... ...rd Cobham 344 Lord Darnley 324 Lord Essex 420 Lord Falconberg 399 Lord Falkland 376 Lord Grey of Werk 424 A Child’s Histroy of England 442 Lord...

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........................................... 155 IV . ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ............................................ 156 V . INTENDED FOR MR ROWE, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ........................................ 157 VIII. ON SIR GODFREY KNELLER, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1723. ..................................................... ....................................... 158 IX. ON GENERAL HENRY WITHERS, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1729. ................................................. ... ....................................................... 159 XI. ON MR GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. ..................................................... ...the good alone unhappy call, For ills or accidents that chance to all. See Falkland dies, the virtuous and the just! See godlike T urenne prostrate on...

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...father took us to London with him, and there Eustace was sent to school at Westminster; while I, with little Berry, had a tutor to teach us Latin and ... ... a plea of service to the King which availed at the trial that followed at Westminster. Harry had managed to secure part of the es- tate, as he had li... ... white collar fastened by two silken tassels (such as I remem- ber my Lord Falkland used to wear). It became him better than the gay coats of some of ... ...could not believe Sir Andrew when he told us that the Hebrides and all the west coast of Scotland were warmer than Paris in the winter. After this we ... ...ss cause. ‘ As to the climate, that was not so much amiss,’ said Eustace. ‘Western Scotland is better and more wholesome than these Dutch marshes. The... ...d thus we had to live very frugally in 308 Stray Pearls a little house in Westminster; but as for that, I was far hap- pier marketing in the morning ...

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...on; it was at the time when press warrants were issued, on the alarm about Falkland Islands. The woman’s husband was pressed, their goods seized for s... ...out of drums and masquerades and parties at quadrille, were passing at the west end of the town, heavy stagecoaches and scarce heavier waggons were lu... ...ce. In the fields, the lanes, the roads, in all quarters of the town—east, west, north, and south— that man was seen gliding on like a shadow. He was ... ... a dozen times more strange and singular than before, went down on foot to Westminster. Gashford, meanwhile, bestirred himself in business mat ters; ... ...sant thing in a pleasant way, give me Muster Gashford agin’ all London and Westminster! My lord an’t a bad ‘un at that, but he’s a fool to you. Ah to ... ...—eh, brother?’ Hugh answering in the affirmative, they went slowly down to Westminster, where both houses of Parliament were then sitting. Mingling in...

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...ter of rocks is situ- ated in 0 degs. 58' north latitude, and 29 degs. 15' west longitude. It is 540 miles distant from the coast of America, and 350 ... ...a clavipes of Fabricius, which was formerly said by Sloane to make, in the West Indies, webs so strong as to catch birds. A small and pretty kind of s... ...cturesque. To *Hearne’s Journey, p. 383. 54 The V oyage of the Beagle the westward the view extended over an immense level plain as far as the Mount,... ..., that of the damp winds. In the southern part of the continent, where the western gales, charged with moisture from the Pacific, prevail, every islan... ...harged with moisture from the Pacific, prevail, every island on the broken west coast, from lat. 38 degs. to the ex- treme point of Tierra del Fuego, ... ... by rain-bearing winds, has a strongly marked exception in the case of the Falkland Islands. These islands, situated in the same latitude with Tierra ... ...fted from that country, and frequently thrown on the shores of the Western Falkland. Hence perhaps it is, that there are many plants in common to the ... ...ecies is the Polyborus Novae Zelandiae, which is exceedingly common in the Falkland Islands. These birds in many respects resemble in their habits the... ...n by several, and its death hastened by their blows. The Beagle was at the Falklands only during the summer, but the officers of the Adventure, who we...

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...as species or varieties. Now Fries has re- marked in regard to plants, and Westwood in regard 59 Charles Darwin to insects, that in large genera the ... ...old climate of Faroe in the north 132 On the Origin of Species and of the Falklands in the south, and on many is- lands in the torrid zones. Hence I ... ...r generally common to very large groups of beetles, but in the Engidae, as Westwood has remarked, the number varies greatly; and the number likewise d... ...elch pony with three short parallel stripes on each shoulder. In the north-west part of India the Kattywar breed of horses is so generally striped, th... ...fer of numerous specimens from the same nest of the driver ant (Anomma) of West Africa. The reader will perhaps best appreciate the amount of differen... ...e distant South Downs; for, remem- bering that at no great distance to the west the north- ern and southern escarpments meet and close, one can safely... ...nd many is- lands situated at a much less distance are equally barren. The Falkland Islands, which are inhabited by a wolf-like fox, come nearest to a... ...; on elephants and mastodons; and Cautley on mammals of sub-Himalayan beds Falkland Island, wolf of Faults 439 Charles Darwin Fear, instinctive, in b... ...logous with branchiae; rudi- mentary, in insects Wolf crossed with dog; of Falkland Isles Wollaston, Mr., on varieties of insects; on fossil vari- eti...

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...field was very respectable in his time. The late Dr. Taylor, Prebendary of Westminster, who was educated under him, told me, that ‘he was an excellent... ...man, may be worth relating. When he and I took a journey together into the West, we visited the late Mr. Banks, of Dorsetshire; the conversation turn-... ...rved. The letter was brought to Dr. Taylor, at his house in the Cloisters, Westminster, about three in the morning; and as it signified an earnest des... ...He was enter- tained at the seats of several noblemen and gentlemen in the West of England; but the greatest part of the time was passed at Ply- mouth... ...he Reverend Zachariah Mudge, Prebendary of Exeter, who was idolised in the west, both for his excellence as a preacher and the uniform perfect proprie... ...h some Collectanea, obligingly furnished to me by the Rev. Dr. Maxwell, of Falkland, in Ire- land, sometime assistant preacher at the Temple, and for ... ...f peace which he had so beautifully recommended in his pamphlet respecting Falkland’s Islands, that I was sorry to see him appear in so unfavourable a...