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...by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne PART ONE CHAPTER I A SHIFTING REEF T H... ...But I cannot decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” ... ...h- teen wide, and fifteen high. A luminous ceiling, deco- rated with light arabesques, shed a soft clear light over all the marvels accumulated in thi... ...he Pacific. I saw in the morning, some miles to the windward, the elevated summits of the island. These wa- ters furnished our table with excellent fi... ...º 32' E. long. The earth seemed covered with verdure from the shore to the summits in the interior, that were crowned by Mount Kapogo, 476 feet high. ... ...soon showed itself through the dissipating fogs, first the shore, then the summits. The natives were there, more numerous than on the day before—five ... ...sight. Its course was N.N.E., in the direction of the Sea of Oman, between Arabia and the Indian Peninsula, which serves as an outlet to the Persian G...

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...G OF SHA OF SHA OF SHA OF SHA OF SHA GP GP GP GP GP A A A A A T T T T T AN ARABIAN ENTER AN ARABIAN ENTER AN ARABIAN ENTER AN ARABIAN ENTER AN ARABIAN... ...niversity. 3 George Meredith THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT By George Meredith AN ARABIAN ENTERTAINMENT 1898/1909 BOOK I THE THWACKINGS IT WA S ORDAINED that... ...e she the red whirlwind of the desert before whom all bowed in terror, the Arab, the wild horsemen, and the caravans of pilgrimage; and none could sta... ... as the troop advanced, wound and wid- ened, gradually receding, and their summits, which were sil- ver in the moonlight, took in the distance a robe ... ...t the jungle for the crouch- ing tiger. Once, when he was well-nigh half a league in front, he wheeled his mare, and raced back full on Bhanavar, gras... ...lofty mountain-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 co... ... forward on horseback, touching neither food nor drink. By night she was a league beyond the foremost of them, and fell upon the King en- camped in th...

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...lrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city. We resided principally in the latter, and the lives... ... my search than to exhibit that object already accomplished. I was like the Arabian who had been Frankenstein 33 buried with the dead and found a p... ... was full of imagination; and very often, in imita tion of the Persian and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At othe... ...ear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to progn... ...s obliged to pass the night at Secheron, a village at the distance of half a league from the city. The sky was serene; and, as I was unable to rest, I... ...en committed at the house of an aunt at Chene, a village situated at about a league from Geneva. On her re turn, at about nine o’clock, she met a man... ...ded every thought. The rain was pouring in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains, so that I even saw not the faces of those might... ...her the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose aerial summits hung over its recesses. Their icy and glitter ing peaks shone in... ...sed it rapturously and called her, as well as I could distinguish, his sweet Arabian. She did not appear to understand him, but smiled. He assisted he...

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.... But why should that delight me? Had he been one of the Calendars in the “Arabian Nights,” and had paid down his eye as the price of his criminal cur... ...st the tackling—rising, sinking, fluttering, trembling, praying; there for leagues I saw her as she stood, raising at intervals one hand to heaven, am... ... kindled anew in sympathy with the secret word that was flying past. Forty leagues we might have run in the cathedral, and as yet no strength of morni... ...ndeed mingle with the festivals of Death? Lo! as I looked back for seventy leagues through the mighty cathedral, I saw the quick and the dead that san... ... judges! barbarian jurisprudence!—that, sitting in your own conceit on the summits of social wisdom, have yet failed to learn the first principles of ... ...upon that fluctuating mirror—rising (like the mocking mirrors of mirage in Arabian deserts) from the fens of death-most of all are reflected the sweet... ...mrah, which is not found in Century Dictionary, is itself really plural of Arabic amir (ameer), a commander, noble- man. 15 23 THE 6TH OF EDWARD LONGS...

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...tains, fresh born in the regions majestic, That look with their eye-daring summits deep into the sky. The voice of great Nature; sublime with her loft... ...vering shine With eagerness and haste, that needs No spur to make the dark leagues fly! Whose eyes are meteors of speed; Whose mane is as a flashing f... ...Wake us in each other’s arms? 69 SONG Thou to me art such a spring As the Arab seeks at eve, Thirsty from the shining sands; There to bathe his face ... ... The lava in their fiery cusps; Nor that high-climbing robe of snow, Whose summits touch the morning star, And breathe the thinnest air of life; Nor c... ...he pitch of noon ’Tis seized with conflagration and distends Horridly over leagues of doom’d domain; Mingling the screams of birds, the cries of brute... ...ll as oak-leaves after frost. She will not speak. I will not ask. We are League-sundered by the silent gulf between. You burly lovers on the village... ... So cries my heart, the infidel! … XI Oh! for the strenuous mind in quest, Arabian visions could not vie With those broad wonders of the West, And wou...

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...om which hitherto they held aloof, and took their place high on the sunlit summits of the new political world. In that time of general baseness and sh... ...became a solemn compact made with himself, an oath after the manner of the Arabs among whom he had lived; for among them a vow is a kind of contract m... ...uchesses do not fly off like wagtails. She cannot travel faster than three leagues an hour, and tomorrow we will ride six.—Confound it! Mme de Langeai... ...w keel and light mastage, so that she might lie at anchor in safety half a league away from the reefs that secure the island from approach in this dir...

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...find my bride) Went forth again with both my friends. We rode Many a long league back to the North. At last From hills, that looked across a land of... ...tion crabbed and gnarled. Better to clear prime forests, heave and thump A league of street in summer solstice down, Than hammer at this reverend gent... ... day.’ She spake With kindled eyes; we rode a league beyond, And, o’er a bridge of pinewood crossing, came On flowery lev... ...ut above the lawns. The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And ... ...ran Through all the camp and inward raced the scouts With rumour of Prince Arab hard at hand. We left her by the woman, and without Found the gray kin...

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...ivated land, sandy plains without herbage, hemmed in on the horizon by the summits of the Correze. These mountains have neither the abrupt rise of the... ...sed horses, the famous Limousin breed, which is said to be a legacy of the Arabs when they descended by the Pyrenees into France and were cut to piece... ...se unfrequented mountains, Madame Graslin started on the first day for the summits, intending to explore those only, so as to understand the watershed... ... being conscious of God. So it was with Veronique; in the silence of those summits, from the odor of the woods, the serenity of the air, she gathered—... ...y, so smiling on one side, so ruined on the other, and at its lower end, a league away, the terraced hill-sides back of Montegnac, Farrabesche said:— ... ...have not enough to really occupy me for two hours in my day. I see my col- leagues marry, and fall into a situation contrary to the spirit of modern s... ... the side toward the commons a similar slope, covered with several feet of arable earth, still further supported this great work, which no rush of wat...

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...he poet to the robin-redbreast, for it is remarkable that Gulliver and the Arabian Nights are amongst the few books where children and men find themse... ...ration of letters there has been a cabal, an academic interest, a factious league amongst universities, and learned bodies, and individual scholars, f... ...ike Alexander Selkirk, in a frightful solitude, or like a single family of Arabs gathering at sunset about a solitary coffee- pot in the boundless des... ...at Lord Wellesley designed: ‘I leaving the woods of Cyllene, and the snowy summits of Pholoe, places that are all of them dear to Pan ’—that is what w... ...swell of the advancing tide, into the long thunder of billows breaking for leagues against the shore: ‘That to the height of this great argument I may...

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...niless, his clothes had begun to fall in tatters; he had begun to have the look of a street Arab; and captains will have nothing to say to a ragamuffi... ...mething too roguish and wanton in his face, a look too like that of a schoolboy or a street Arab, to have survived much cudgelling. It was plain that ... ...nd keep me awake in bed with all manner of quaint imaginations. Much of the pleasure of the Arabian Nights hinges upon this Asmodean interest; and we ... ...re taken shape in some significant and dramatic situation. It was hence that Gruise and his leaguers led Charles the Ninth a prisoner to Paris. Here, ... ...s, and waved it glo- riously in the air. ‘This comes from America,’ he cried, ‘six thousand leagues away!’ And the wine-shop audience looked upon it w... ...lden daylight—there will be startling rear- rangements and transfigurations of the mountain summits. A sun-dazzling spire of alp hangs suspended in mi... ...iries of Nebraska and across the vast and dismal moorlands of Wyoming, a few snowy mountain summits alone, the southern sky. It is among these mountai... ...f valley, wall-like mountains upon either hand that rise higher and higher and shoot up new summits the higher you climb; a few noble peaks seen even ...

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...w grey, with the square jointings and occasional clefts and gullies, their summits are toothed and jagged; the path ascends and passes round the side ... ..., and they were suffering from frostbite. Across the great gap between the summits a minute traveller with some provisions was going up by wire to som... ...ome cav- alry force from French north Africa. He was a handsome dark brown Arab, wearing a long yellow-white robe and a tall cap about which ran a ban... ...stuck into great silver stirrups. He might have ridden straight out of the Arabian nights. He passed thoughtfully, picking his way delicately among th... ...r the next fifty years. They are bound to play a central part in the World League for the Preservation of Peace that must follow this struggle. There ... ...bolition rests now entirely upon four or five great powers. Next comes the League of Peace idea; that there should be an International T ribunal for t... ...nt Wilson and ex-President Taft of an American initiative to found a World League for Peace, by asking if America was prepared to back that idea with ...

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...ation, and he saw The thrilling secrets of the birth of time. Meanwhile an Arab maiden brought his food, Her daily portion, from her father’s tent, ... ...dered, and wan, and panting, she returned. The Poet, wandering on, through Arabie, _140 And Persia, and the wild Carmania... ...idnight The moon arose; and lo! the ethereal cliffs Of Caucasus, whose icy summits shone Among the stars like sunlight, and around Whose caverned base... ...790 But Laon? on high Freedom’s desert land A tower whose marble walls the leagued storms withstand! 15 15 15 15 15. One summer night, in commune with... ...as power—and when the shades of evening lie On Earth and Ocean, its carved summits cast The sunken daylight far through the aerial waste. _1... ...Ere yet success the enterprise had blessed, _3545 Leagued with me in their hearts;—their meals, their slumber, Their hourly o... ...ircumvent In the scorched pastures of the South; so bent The armies of the leagued Kings around _3825 Their files of ste... ... dying statue fair and wan, If tears should cease, to weep again: And rare Arabian odours came, Through the myrtle copses steaming thence ...

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...d faculties of mind. The Baroness de Stael, forbidden to come within forty leagues of Paris, spent several months of her banishment on an estate near ... ...forth. Louis Lambert’s advent was the subject of a romance wor- thy of the Arabian Nights. I was in the fourth class at the time—among the little boys... ...e human hive which settled on the mountainous slopes of Thibet between the summits of the Himalaya and the Caucasus. “The character of the primitive i... ...e Gospel, in one book, the Koran, adapting them to the apprehension of the Arab race. Finally, Swedenborg bor- rowed from Magianism, Brahmanism, Buddh... ... the fabulous achievements of chivalry and the most fantastic tales of the Arabian Nights. I can believe now in the most fantastic excesses of love, a... ...once. Why did I not know it? We are not yet completely one in mind. At two leagues’ distance or at a thousand I ought to feel your pain and sorrows. I...

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...ions, and strike back at once for the mountains. Seen from the ship, their summits appeared inaccessible, but here and there sloping spurs extended fr... ...at had bleached them to a dazzling whiteness. The vale was more than three leagues in length, and about a mile across at its greatest width. On either... ...ined. These deep recesses, though protected from the winds that assail the summits of their lofty sides, are damp and chill to a degree that one would... ...on my sight, and almost beneath the shadow of those very cliffs from whose summits we had gazed upon the prospect. 86 Typee CHAPTER TEN THE HEAD OF T... ... greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the cour- age of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendsh...

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...eneath his foot. Ever, ever, on he rushes, Leaves the towers’ flame-tipp’d summits, Marble palaces, the offspring Of his fullness, far behind. Cedar-h... ...h the clouds he let the sunbeams enter; Painted then the soft and feathery summits Of the fresh and quicken’ d trees, behind them One by one with free... ... driven to exile. Down to the causeway now building, the distance nearly a league is, And they thitherward rush, in the heat and the dust of the noond... ...and in song Keep my course from going wrong. 1819.* THE FOUR FAVOURS. THAT Arabs through the realms of space May wander on, light-hearted, Great Allah... ...r now! 465 492 Goethe T Tell me, eyes, what ’tis ye’re seeking; 99 That Arabs through the realms of space 422 The bed of flowers 103 The dam brea...

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... “He beheld A vision, and adored the thing he saw. Arabian fiction never filled the world With half the wonders that were wr... ... people—T urks, according to my present impression, but it might have been Arabs— make an old traditional distinction (so said the French jour- nal) b... ... must suggest. But Lady Carbery reminded me of the three Calendars in the “Arabian Nights,” and argued that, as the ladies of Bagdad were justified in... ..., my uncle was in the character of his intellect; there he fell a thousand leagues below my mother, to whom he looked up with affectionate astonish- m... ...es of the classical poetry—with the nod of the Olympian Jove, or the seven-league strides of Neptune? Flying Childers had the most prodigious stride o... ...no sooner heard the trumpet of popular rights echoing melodiously from the summits of Taygetus, of Ida, of Pindus, and of Olympus, than, turning with ...

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...empt for the large fortune and to belittle the possessions, the woods, the arable lands, the mead- ows, of a neighbor who was not of noble birth. Mons... ...nt. One evening I found her pensively watching a sunset which reddened the summits with so ravishing a glow that it was impossible not to listen to th... ...e light of a window to show its crisp details, its delicate contrasts, its arabesques of color, and allow the sovereign lady to see a tear upon some p... ...; I have decided on giving you the young man we spoke of yesterday as col- league. Amuse yourself at Clochegourde, friend Cato!” and he laughed as he ... ...its surface, so do the flowers, the gravel of its shores, the rocks of the summits; storms and the loitering tribute of the crys- tal streams alike in... ...y insensible to the triple seductions of pride, devotion, and beauty. When Arabella laid at my feet the homage of a ball-room where she reigned a quee... ... were fastened on the splen- did tapestry of the yellowing oaks, the stern summits, the bronzed foothills. I asked myself if Henriette’s virtue were n...

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... the re- covery of Asia?” However, they solemnly, upon oath, con- cluded a league between them, upon these terms: that Mithridates should enjoy the fr... ...and carries away great booty, showing his al- lies, that to break a solemn league was a downright contempt of the gods, but the circumvention of an en... ...n to the bounds of Paphlagonia, he soon drew Cotys, the king of it, into a league, to which he of his own accord inclined, out of the opinion he had o... ... he had a great desire and emulation to occupy Syria, and to march through Arabia to the Red Sea, that he might thus extend his conquests every way to... ...Pompey having now by his forces under the command of Afranius, subdued the Arabians about the mountain Amanus, himself entered Syria, and finding it d... ...e Pompey the Great used to sup. Such is the story told us. The king of the Arabs near Petra, who had hitherto de- spised the power of the Romans, now ... ... a warning from the oracle at Dodona, that they should carefully guard the summits of Diana, lest haply strangers should seize them. And about this ve...

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...hese very Alps, for example, will be populous with homes, serving the vast arable levels of Upper Italy. So we shall see, as we come down by our littl... ...ressions. The time I first saw the Matterhorn, that Queen among the Alpine summits, I was distracted beyond appreciation by the tale of a man who coul... ... reasonably clear upon that point. This Oneida commu- nity was, in fact, a league of two hundred persons to regard their children as “common.” Choice ... ...her like bashful yokels, to the library, and the old gentleman reading the Arabian Nights in the armchair in the corner glances up at me with a sudden... ...ecline and Fall, and Mahomet, instead of embodying the dense prejudices of Arab ignorance, opened his eyes upon an intellectual horizon al- ready near...

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...d reality of this white hand which had drawn him thither away thousands of leagues in an eye-twinkle. Hark, how Ariel sang overhead! What splendour in... ...e of the question.” “Doctor,” replied Sir Austin, “if you had a pure-blood Arab barb would you cross him with a screw?” “Decidedly not,” said the doct... ...n your Horatian.” “He knows all!” thought Richard, and instantly drew away leagues from his father, and threw up fortifications round his love and him... ..., the glorious golden East! I dream of the desert. I dream I’m chief of an Arab tribe, and we fly all white in the moonlight on our mares, and hurry t... ... and busy contractors measure time by inches, and the air hums around: for leagues as it were myriads of bees, so the house and neighbourhood of the m... ... trunk and ravined brows, stretching all his hands up to unattainable blue summits. North-west the range had a rich white glow, as if shining to the m...

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...her achievement, and when it came to climbing it seemed foolish to toil to summits over which her spirit had flitted days before. Their Swiss expedi- ... ... and St. Petersburg and Rome take sides as though these beastly tribes and leagues and superstitions meant anything but blank, black, damnable ignoran... ...ng wise man with a roll- ing eye, a fakir under a tree, a Jewish sheik, an Arab epilep- tic….” “Would you sweep away the experience of mankind?” pro- ...

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...There was a great ottoman of Aunt Maria’s work, and a huge cushion with an Arab horse- man, that Lucy would uncover, whispering, ‘Poor mamma worked it... ...ess. The next morning, she found out that it was not the world that was in league against her, but that she had fallen into the condition which she ha... ...e timid Gilbert. His individual story was thus:—He safely rode the ‘half a league’ forward, but when more than half way back, his horse was struck to ... ... LAKE OF LUCERNE lay blue and dark in the shade of the mountains, on whose summits the evening sunshine was fast mounting, peak after peak falling int...

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... or any Spanish tirailleur’s bullet. Now is our Kate standing alone on the summits of the Andes, in solitude that is shocking, for she is alone with h... ...yes, as if by some winged patriarchal her- ald of wrath relenting—solitary Arab’s tent, rising with saintly signals of peace, in the dreadful desert, ... ...d Vandals, tainted (for which Heaven be thanked!) twice over with blood of Arabs—once through Moors, once through Jews;* whilst from her grandmother, ... ...elancholy after all was swallowed up for the present by her Vandal, by her Arab, by her Spanish fire. Catalina, seared as she was by the world, has le... ...for man and beast; the product of which eight hours was from ten to twelve leagues. On the last day but one of the journey, the travelling party, whic... ..., which was precisely the original dinner party, reached a little town ten leagues short of Cuzco. The Corregidor of this place was 131 Thomas de Qui... ...Ah! what joy, if she had not looked back to the Andes, to their dread- ful summits, and their more dreadful feet. Ah! what sorrow, if she had not been... ...er from the plots of several Saissang, (that is, Kalmuck nobles,) who were leagued together, under an oath to assassinate him; and immediately after, ...

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... St. Jago. Even the form of a cra- ter can but rarely be discovered on the summits of the many red cindery hills; yet the more recent streams can be d... ...of infinity, could have denuded the gran- ite over so many thousand square leagues? On a point not far from the city, where a rivulet entered the sea,... ...discoloration of the sea from organic causes. On the coast of Chile, a few leagues north of Concepcion, the Beagle one day passed through great bands ... ...found this to be the case only on one occasion. At the distance of several leagues from the Archi- pelago of the Galapagos, the ship sailed through th... ...with water above our horses’ knees. By crossing the stir- rups, and riding Arab-like with our legs bent up, we contrived to keep tolerably dry. It was... ...ntains them- selves, instea of the masses of vapour condensed by their icy summits. April 26th. — We this day met with a marked change i the geologica... ...in and river April 29th. — From some high land we hailed with jo the white summits of the Cordillera, as they were seen occasionally peeping through t... ...ories of the illimitable ocean. A tedious waste, a desert of water, as the Arabian calls it. No doubt there are some delightful scenes. A moonlight ni...

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...ntaneous, and the self same form Instant resumed. So mighty sages tell, The’ Arabian Phoenix, when five hundred years Have well nigh circled, dies, an... .... 140. Him who made That commentary vast, Averroes.] Averroes, called by the Arabians Roschd, translated and commented the works of Aristotle. Accordi... ...of Greek, and who was therefore compelled to avail himself of the unfaithful Arabic versions. D’Herbelot, on the other hand, informs us, that “Averroe... ...foot of the stupendous work he stood, As if bewilder’d, looking on the crowd Leagued in his proud attempt on Sennaar’s plain. O Niobe! in what a... ...t ails thee, that thou canst not hold Thy footing firm, but more than half a league Hast travel’d with clos’d eyes and tott’ring gait, Like to a man b... ...inst Brennus and th’ Epirot prince, and hosts Of single chiefs, or states in league combin’d Of social warfare; hence Torquatus stern, And Quintius na... ...urishment. The cry thou raisest, Shall, as the wind doth, smite the proudest summits; Which is of honour no light argument, For this there only have b... ...ness towards the breast, After the milk is taken; so outstretch’d Their wavy summits all the fervent band, Through zealous love to Mary: then in view ...

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...inst Brennus and th’ Epirot prince, and hosts Of single chiefs, or states in league combin’d Of social warfare; hence Torquatus stern, And Quintius na... ...ce acquir’d Their fame, which I with duteous zeal embalm. By it the pride of Arab hordes was quell’d, When they led on by Hannibal o’erpass’d The Alpi... ...urishment. The cry thou raisest, Shall, as the wind doth, smite the proudest summits; Which is of honour no light argument, For this there only have b... ...ness towards the breast, After the milk is taken; so outstretch’d Their wavy summits all the fervent band, Through zealous love to Mary: then in view ... ...t. In three eternal Persons I believe, Essence threefold and one, mysterious league Of union absolute, which, many a time, The word of gospel lore upo... ...telligence were made: mere power The lowest: in the midst, bound with strict league, Intelligence and power, unsever’d bond. Long tract of ages by the... ... Quintius Cincinnatus. E Cincinnato dall’ inculta chioma. Petrarca. v. 50. Arab hordes.] The Arabians seem to be put for the barbarians in general.... ...t traveler, who wrote before Dante, informs us, p. 138, that the wandering Arabs used their scymitars as mirrors. v. 126. Let not.] “Let not short ...

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...y auberges situated in the bare and rocky gorges which intersect the white summits of the moun- tains, the inn of Schwarenbach is a refuge for trav- e... ...ept immense, white slopes of the Balmhorn, surrounded by light, glistening summits, and shut up, blocked up, and buried by the snow which rises around... ... distance, there was a group of white, un- equal, flat or pointed mountain summits, which glistened in the sun; the Mischabel with its twin peaks, the... ...minated the immense ocean of pale mountain peaks, which stretched for many leagues around him. It seemed as if this vague brightness arose from the sn... ...n there to lay it, or the queer story of Jean Pila’s dog, who had gone ten leagues to bring back his master’s breeches which a tramp had stolen while ... ...at im- mense desert, yellow and tranquil, in which cam- els, gazelles, and Arab vagabonds roam about— where, in the rare and transparent atmosphere, t... ...evolutionary circles, she was looked upon as an active member of the great League of Free- dom, and diplomatists regarded her as an influen- tial frie...

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...guid Julia, dreaming, wait- ing for her Tibullus. Strong with the might of Arabic spells, 16 The Magic Skin the head of Cicero evoked memories of a f... ...isite miniatures; he admired a precious missal in manuscript, adorned with arabesques in gold and blue. Thoughts of peace- ful life swayed him; he dev... ...lent a Chinaman money, taking his father’s corpse as a pledge, slept in an Arab’s tent on the security of his bare word, signed contracts in every cap... ... Is it nothing to sit enthroned in a room, at a distance of thirty million leagues from the sun?” “Let us once more take a broad view of civilization,... ...ed,” came in the deep tones of Aquilina’s voice. “She never went a hundred leagues to drink in one look and a denial with untold raptures. She has not... ... the pain that overcame me on the way home through rain and snow, across a league of icy- sheeted quays, without a hope left? Oh, to think that she no... ...ing fall; a few stunted trees tor- mented by the wind, often crowned their summits; and here and there in some sheltered angle of their ramparts a clu... ... her ominous words. Thrilled with horror, he took refuge among the highest summits of the mountains, and stayed there till the evening; but yet he cou...

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...f English racehorses have come to surpass in fleetness and size the parent Arab stock, so that the latter, by the regulations for the Goodwood Races, ... ...f shells in the brackish waters of the Baltic, or dwarfed plants on Alpine summits, or the thicker fur of an animal from far northwards, would not in ... ...plants now most numerous over the wide plains of La Plata, clothing square leagues of surface almost to the ex- clusion of all other plants, have been... ...and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more 153 Charles Darwin plainly barred across the ... ...ik- ing classes of facts; namely, the existence of the same species on the summits of distant mountain-ranges, and at distant points in the arctic and... ..., some at least of the islands would have been formed, like other mountain-summits, of gran- 319 Charles Darwin ite, metamorphic schists, old fossili... ...euter, structure of Aphides attended by ants Aphis, development of Apteryx Arab horses Aralo-Caspian Sea Archiac, M. de, on the succession of species ...

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...y, or ottoman cov- erings, all upholstery of this nature should be rigidly Arabesque. As for those antique floor-cloth & still occasionally seen in th... ...music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. With no great range of imagination, th... ... are busy—a land new found— Miraculously found by one of Genoa— A thousand leagues within the golden west? A fairy land of flowers, and fruit, and sun... ...stal lakes, and over-arching forests, And mountains, around whose towering summits the winds Of Heaven untrammelled flow—which air to breathe Is Happi... ... dwell— Apart from Heaven’s Eternity—and yet how far from Hell!* *With the Arabians there is a medium between Heaven and Hell, where men suffer no pun...

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...ff, the missionary, distributed copies of Robinson Crusoe, translated into Arabic, among the Arabs, and they made a great sensation. “Robinson Crusoe’... ..., Hodyeda, and Loheya, and admired and believed!” On reading the book, the Arabians exclaimed, “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet... ...tiful, and the air is without wind; And all the heights, and the extreme summits, And the wooded sides of the mountains appear; and from the h... ...ted alternately to the sun and to the waves, as desolate as if it lay some leagues within the icy sea, and found ourselves in a narrower part of the r... ...licing the melons, which are a fruit of the East, our thoughts reverted to Arabia, Per 97 HenryDavidThoreau sia, and Hindostan, the lands of contemp... ...alm and the banian do not supply the wants of this age. The lichens on the summits of the rocks will perchance find their level erelong. As for the te... ... of New York to Sandy Hook and the Highlands of Neversink, and thence over leagues of the Atlantic, perchance to some faint vessel in the horizon, alm... ...his corse thy now entombed exile!” In the preceding evening I had seen the summits of new and yet higher mountains, the Catskills, by which I might ho...

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...or they are holy things before the Lord Aye unprofaned, though Earth should league with Hell; God’s altar grasping with an eager hand Fear, the wil... ...rge Lick his young face, and at his mouth imbreathe Horrible sympathy! And leagued with these Each petty German princeling, nursed in gore! Soul-h... ...pt’s fields that steam hot pestilence, Travels the sky for many a trackless league, Till o’er some death-doomed land, distant in vain, It broods in... ... wings imprisoned within the coils of the serpent. The pointed and shattered summits of the ridges of the rocks made a rude mimicry of human concerns,... ... gladness stirs my heart, But tim’rously beginning to rejoice Like a blind Arab, that from sleep doth start In lonesome tent, I listen for thy voic... ...’s Apparition and Evanishment. An Allegorical Romance 1833 Like a lone Arab, old and blind, Some caravan had left behind, Who sits beside a ru...

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...on their smooth surface the initials of the newly wedded pair in nonpareil arabesques. A confectioner of Yvetot had been intrusted with the tarts and ... ...e ground, whistled; the branches trembled in a swift rustling, while their summits, ceaselessly swaying, kept up a deep murmur. Emma drew her shawl ro... ...ircle gathered round a very young man who the week before had beaten “Miss Arabella” and “Romolus,” and won two thousand louis jumping a ditch in Engl... ...m the box, droning through a curtain of pink taffeta under a brass claw in arabesque. They were airs played in other places at the theatres, sung in d... ...e consulta- tions in his back-parlour. But the mayor resented it, his col- leagues were jealous, everything was to be feared; gaining over Monsieur Bo...

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...isov, showing his white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which twitched its ears as the bayo- nets touched it, and snorted, sp... ...y, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... There was peace and happiness... “I should wishing for nothing e... ...lue cloak which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab horse a little in front of his marshals. He gazed silently at the hill... ...drew ribbon over his shoulder. He was riding a very fine thoroughbred gray Arab horse with a crimson gold-embroidered saddlecloth. On approaching Alex... ... especially in the woods and fields to the left, in the valleys and on the summits of the high ground, clouds of powder smoke seemed continually to sp... ...Napoleon bowed his head and remained silent a long time. “At eight hundred leagues from France, I will not have my Guard destroyed!” he said, and turn... ...... A man who doesn’t know Paris is a savage. Y ou can tell a Parisian two leagues off. Paris is T alma, la Duchenois, Potier, the Sorbonne, the boule...