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Theological Immortal Romance

By: Kevin B. Wright

...to the stars. From hers to mine, between ours and the heavens. I will create islands out of a grain of sand, divide countries and their people and ser... ...s of holiness admire her effulgence, her wonders are a portion of the world. Neptune and Juno awaits the twinkling spheres that turn the revolving ray...

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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...racticed by monastic orders. The Benedictines in their Abbeys created true islands of culture, of work and prayer while being in contact with the wor... ... yet. To the contrary, they multiplied, because Polyphemous was the son of Neptune, who swears to get revenge on Ulysses for having blinded his son.... ...or chocolate”, if it can help refresh your memory. As the god of the sea, Neptune will attack Ulysses, his ship and his crew many different times, ... ...ave never been able to finish his journey and Zeus would have never forced Neptune to stop punishing him. If we interpret the poem in layman’s term... ...(Calypso and Polyphemous, Nausicaa and the Sirens, the Sorceress Circe and Neptune, the monster who suddenly and violently emerges from the bottom o... ...ysses up with gifts and, even though by doing so they are risking inciting Neptune’s rage, they take him home richer than when he had pillaged Troy o... ...hose who face death can create beauty that never dies. - There are many islands in Ulysses’ journey: the island of the Laestrygonians, the island...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce o... ...especting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe,... ...ttacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in Greenland -- Castaways on the shor... ... A ghostly company that come up out of the sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for wh... ...ctral ship -- Ghostly ships of extraordinary proportions -- A Monk who visited islands of the damned and the blessed -- The story that suggested Dante... ...3 A water-spout at sea..................................................... 74 Neptune and the Siren.....................................................

...ers of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the Wes...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...chnologies, there is more than enough geothermal energy available on the islands of Hawai‘i and Maui to provide firm power for the entire state. CRE... ...chnologies, there is more than enough geothermal energy available on the islands of Hawai‘i and Maui to provide firm power for the entire state. CRE... ... have been selected to host APEC 2011, and we look forward to sharing our islands, our hospitality and our aloha spirit. NEIL ABERCROMBIE Go... ...ies, CEOs and guests and wish you an enjoyable and productive stay in our islands. Hawaii’s uniqueness lies not only in its natural beauty but it... ...es, CEOs and guests and wish you an enjoyable and productive stay in our islands. Hawaii’s uniqueness lies not only in its natural beauty but its ... ...d Trojan Asteroid, a celestial body previously associated with Jupiter, Neptune and Mars. Adjacent to CHFT is the 8-meter Gemini North telescope,...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...houlish crimes, then they were burned at the stake. Or some were given to Neptune to judge. They were tossed into the water, if they sunk and drowne... ...ng the South American coasts, Africa, Australia and to other mainlands and islands. This gave him far more geologic and comparative evidence than any... ...deas in the last 200 years is like criticizing Galileo for not discovering Neptune or Pasteur for not finding viruses. The important point is that we... ...and the government was sending their welfare checks to them in the Canary islands. The Dutch welfare system was not fair from his point of view.‖ ... ...ens with Norwegians. A person gets his welfare payment sent to the Canary islands but he works there driving a taxi or opening a bar. A friend of mi... ...timacy rates. Why is Greenland over 70%? Panama and some of the Caribbean Islands have rates over 70%. Most of that area has rates over 50%. Is it t... ... million illegal immigrants in the UK. 30,000 Africans reached the Canary Islands last year along with many South Americans. Hundreds of thousands o...

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The Third Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

...rtly maiestee, That one of th’old Heroes seemes to bee: He the six Islands, comprouinciall In auncient times vnto great Britainee, ... ...ternall moniment Of thy great grace, and my great ieopardee, Great Neptune, I auow to hallow vnto thee. Then sighing softly sore, and i... ...heast, Them yielded readie passage, and their rage surceast. Great Neptune stood amazed at their sight, Whiles on his broad round backe... ...m, And through the brackish waues their passage sheare; Vpon great Neptunes necke they softly swim, And to her watry chamber swiftly ca... ... Proteus is Shepheard of the seas of yore, And hath the charge of Neptunes mightie heard; An aged sire with head all frory hore, ... ... most liuely writ. The Faerie Queene : Book III. 162 Next vnto him was Neptune pictured, In his diuine resemblance wondrous lyke: His ...

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The Fovrth Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

... As when Dan Æolus in great displeasure, For losse of his deare loue by Neptune hent, Sends forth the winds out of his hidden threasure, ... ... Thus hauing past all perill, I was come Within the compasse of that Islands space; The which did seeme vnto my simple doome, The on... ... And all their sundry kinds, and all their hid abodes. First came great Neptune with his threeforkt mace, That rules the Seas, and makes the... ...s were Of puissant Nations, which the world possest; Yet sonnes of Neptune, now assembled here: Ancient Ogyges, even th’auncientest, ... ...ghtie Albion, father of the bold And warlike people, which the Britaine Islands hold. The Faerie Queene : Book IV. 140 For Albion the sonne... ...Islands hold. The Faerie Queene : Book IV. 140 For Albion the sonne of Neptune was, Who for the proofe of his great puissance, Out of ... ... that which is th’immortall spright Liues still: and to this feast with Neptunes seed was dight. But what doe I their names seeke to reherse...

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The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare

...y Cabin: these Drummes, 1488 These Trumpets, Flutes: what 1489 Let Neptune heare, we bid aloud farewell 1490 To these great Fellowes. Soun... ...esse. I, that with my Sword, 2893 Quarter’d the World, and o’re greene Neptunes backe - 63 - The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra Shakespeare:... ...hey liu’d in: In his Liuery 3309 Walk’d Crownes and Crownets: Realms & Islands were 3310 As plates dropt from his pocket. 3311 Dol. C...

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Rewards and Fairies

By: Rudyard Kipling

...hour, all of a heat after supper— one great heaving play of dolphins and a Neptune or so rein- ing in webby-footed sea-horses, and Arion with his harp... ...better now,” I said. The more I studied my 48 Rewards and Fairies squabby Neptunes the less I liked ‘em; and Arion was a pure flaming shame atop of t... ...the seal come to my island still?’ Puck shook his head. ‘ All those little islands have been swept away.’ ‘Very possible. The tides ran fiercely down ...

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The Iliad

By: Samuel Butler

...e like Jove the lord of thunder, a waist like Mars, and a chest like that of Neptune. As some great bull that lords it over the herds upon the plain, ... ...as; the fortress of Thebes the less; holy Onchestus with its famous grove of Neptune; Arne rich in vineyards; Midea, sacred Nisa, and Anthedon upon th... ...g Agasthenes, son of Augeas. And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean islands, who dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer... ...ilips, Samos and Zacynthus, with the mainland also that was over against the islands. These were led by Ulysses, peer of Jove in counsel, and with him... ..., Crapathus, and Ca sus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of Kin... ...y the side of Jove the lord of lightning, marvelled at their great work; but Neptune, lord of the earth quake, spoke, saying, “Father Jove, what mort... ...ve from helping them, he would have to sit there sulking alone on Ida.” King Neptune was greatly troubled and answered, “Juno, rash of tongue, what ar... ...by the shore of the sound ing sea, and prayed earnestly to earth encircling Neptune that the high spirit of the son of Æacus might incline favourably... ... son has he reft from me, either by killing them or selling them away in the islands that are beyond the sea: even now I miss two sons from among the ...

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The Odyssey

By: Homer

...who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home. Now Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians, who are at the world’s end, and l... ...erings to the immortal gods that live in heaven? Bear in mind, however, that Neptune is still furious with Ulysses for having blinded an eye of Polyph... ...lyphemus king of the Cyclopes. Polyphemus The Odyssey – Book I 4 is son to Neptune by the nymph Thoosa, daughter to the sea king Phorcys; therefore ... ... Still, let us lay our heads together and see how we can help him to return; Neptune will then be pacified, for if we are all of a mind he can hardly ... ... has laid sor rows upon me of yet another kind; for the chiefs from all our islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woodland island of Zacynthus, as also a... ...of Pylos were gathered on the sea shore to offer sacrifice of black bulls to Neptune lord of the Earthquake. There were nine guilds with five hundred ... ...re fit for goats than horses, and I like it the better for that. None of our islands have much level ground, suitable for horses, and Ithaca least of ... ...alled Neritum, covered with forests; and not far from it there is a group of islands very near to one another Dulichium, Same, and the wooded island ... ... grave themselves. Sail night and day, and keep your ship well away from the islands; the god who watches over you and protects you will send you a fa...

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The Odyssey of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

... not unjustly by my doom oppress’d, Of human race the wisest and the best. Neptune, by prayer repentant rarely won, Afflicts the chief, to avenge his ... ...ore (the bright increase Of Phorcys, dreaded in the sounds and seas); Whom Neptune eyed with bloom of beauty bless’d, And in his cave the yielding nym... ...exempt but cease to mourn; Let all combine to achieve his wish’d return; Neptune atoned, his wrath shall now refrain, Or thwart the synod of the god... ... at Pylos, where Nestor and his sons are sacri ficing on the sea shore to Neptune. T elemachus declares the occasion of his coming: and Nestor relate... ...s address’d: “Whoe’er thou art, from fortune brings to keep These rites of Neptune, monarch of the deep, Thee first it fits, O stranger! to prepare T... ...k could close, The long historian of my country’s woes; Back to thy native islands might’st thou sail, And leave half heard the melancholy tale. Nine ... ...the riding fleets; He next their princes’ lofty domes admires, In separate islands, crown’d with rising spires; And deep entrenchments, and high walls... ...age flows. None match’d this hero’s wealth, of all who reign O’er the fair islands of the neighbouring main. Nor all the monarchs whose far dreaded sw... ...ll covering earth shall bury deep in dust! Then distant from the scatter’d islands steer, Nor let the night retard thy full career; Thy heavenly guard...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...arts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and 5 Jules Verne Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length of sixty yards, if they attain that... ...hat it was better to remain in deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun (perhaps because there was n... ...). The frigate passed at some distance from the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, crossed the tropic of Cancer, and made for the China Seas. We were... ...ry the game which dwells in my submarine forests. My flocks, like those of Neptune’s old shepherds, graze fearlessly in the immense prairies of the oc... ..., in the silurian pe- riod, the tops of the mountains began to appear, the islands emerged, then disappeared in partial deluges, re- appeared, became ... ...er the Sea It was indeed the ancient abode of Proteus, the old shepherd of Neptune’s flocks, now the Island of Scarpanto, situated between Rhodes and ... ... incessantly worked by un- derground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world! It is upon these b... ...truggle between the two elements, a struggle which ended in the victory of Neptune. But many ages have run out since then, and the submerged volcano i... ...old Proteus, the mythological shepherd who watched these immense flocks of Neptune. There were more seals than anything else, forming distinct groups,...

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The Shadow Line a Confession

By: Joseph Conrad

... ship, inas- much as then she belonged to that port. She traded among dark islands on a blue reefscarred sea, with the Red Ensign over the taffrail an... ...ngs, images of headlands, shapes of obscure coasts, aspects of innumerable islands, desert and otherwise. Any ship, for in- stance, bound on a trip to... ...llis looked upon himself as a sort of divine (pagan) emanation, the deputy-Neptune for the circumambient seas. If he did not actually rule the waves, ... ... have been apoplectic if it hadn’t had such a fresh appearance. Our deputy-Neptune had no beard on his chin, and there was no trident to be seen stand... ...nded it back to him with the remark that I accepted its terms, the deputy- Neptune signed it, stamped it with his own exalted hand, folded it in four ... ...ehind my back a gruff, loud, authoritative voice, the voice of our deputy- Neptune. It was addressing the head Shipping-Master who, having let me in, ... ... a dim flash from a dark lantern, showed me for a moment the broad belt of islands and reefs between that unknown ship, which was mine, and the freedo... ...re, with a stealthy power made manifest only by the changing vistas of the islands fringing the east shore of the Gulf. And there were winds, too, fit... ...or a moment I was told in accents of pity for my ignorance that our deputy-Neptune had retired and gone home on a pension about three weeks after I le...

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The Iliad of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...es and T roy, are called demi-gods, and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the blessed.” Now among the divine honours which were paid them,... ...he meads, Great as the gods, the exalted chief was seen, His strength like Neptune, and like Mars his mien; 59 Jove o’er his eyes celestial glories sp... ... meads of Haliartus stray, Or Thespia sacred to the god of day: Onchestus, Neptune’s celebrated groves; Copæ, and Thisbe, famed for silver doves; For ... ...of force divine. But those who view fair Elis o’er the seas From the blest islands of the Echinades, In forty vessels under Meges move, Begot by Phyle... ...leet and camp, flanked with towers, and defended by a ditch and palisades. Neptune tes- tifies his jealousy at this work, but is pacified by a promise... ...and those of Hector, are excellently described. Juno endeavours to animate Neptune to the assistance of the Greeks, but in vain. The acts of Teucer, w... ...rnia’s soul; She shook her throne, that shook the starry pole: And thus to Neptune: “Thou, whose force can make The stedfast earth from her foundation...

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The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

...not; the fire, and cracks 316 Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune 317 Seeme to besiege, and make his bold waues tremble, 318 ... ... Ant. And sowing the kernels of it in the Sea, bring 765 forth more Islands. 766 Gon. I. Ant. Why in good time. 767 Gon. Sir... ...eport this now, would they beleeue me? 1553 If I should say I saw such Islands; 1554 (For certes, these are people of the Island) 1555 Who... ...ye, that on the sands with printlesse foote 1986 Doe chase the ebbing-Neptune, and doe flie him 1987 When he comes backe: you demy- Puppets, ...

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The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...t simultaneously from three observa- tories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that wheel about the sun, had bec... ...por- tion of whose inhabitants were unaware of the existence of the planet Neptune, nor outside the astronomical profession did the subsequent discove... ...erent from the orderly progress of the planets, and that the deflection of Neptune and its satellite was becoming now of an unprecedented kind. Few pe... ...acant immensity that almost defeats the imagi- nation. Beyond the orbit of Neptune there is space, vacant so far as human observation has penetrated, ... ...uchaine’s opinion that this strange new planet would probably collide with Neptune. The leader writers enlarged upon the topic; so that in most of the... ...en death. China was lit glowing white, but over Japan and Java and all the islands of Eastern Asia the great star was a ball of dull red fire because ... ...shing by and one had reached the sea— the limitless sea, with its thousand islands, its thousands of islands, and its ships seen dimly far away in the...

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The New Atlantis

By: Francis Bacon

..., knowing how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown, and might have islands or continents that hitherto were not come to light. Wherefore we ... ...d description which is made by a great man with you, that the descendants of Neptune planted there, and of the magnificent temple, palace, city, and h... ...transporta tions from port to port, and likewise by sailing unto some small islands that are not far from us, and are under the crown and laws of thi...

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The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

...unning were not; the fire and cracks Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread tri... ...pple. ANTONIO: And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth more islands. GONZALO: Ay. ANTONIO: Why, in good time. GONZALO: Sir, we were ... ...d groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back; you demi puppets that By moonshi...

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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare

... No, to my cabin. These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what! Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell To these great fellows: sound and be h... ...st my baseness. I, that with my sword Quarter d the world, and o er green Neptune s back With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack The courage o... ...ment they lived in: in his livery W alk d crowns and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropp d from his pocket. DOLABELLA: ...

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