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...; and Alan has been three years in the West Indies, and then he was in the Mediterranean, and now on the coast of Africa, in the Atalantis. You must h... ...g. Lately, our sailor-guest has inspired him with a vehement wish to go to sea; I wish it was not neces- sary that the decision should be made so earl... ... “They had got into my head too much; my ears sang like the roaring of the sea, and I thought my feet were frozen on to an iceberg: then came darkness... ...nd I thought my feet were frozen on to an iceberg: then came darkness, and sea monsters, and drowning—it was too horrid!” and his face ex- pressed all... ...w on each arm of the chair. “I want you to speak to papa about my going to sea. It is high time to see about it—I shall be thirteen on the fourth of M... ...rself be drawn into mischief here for want of Norman, what would you do at sea?” “I should be an officer!” “I am afraid,” said Margaret, smiling, “tha...

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...as Glaucus 10 became on tasting of the herb which made him consort in the sea of the other gods. Transhumanizing can- not be signified in words; ther... ...f fire, drawn upward by the eyes of Beatrice. 10 A fisherman changed to a sea-god. The story is in Ovid (Metamorphoses, xiii.). 11 Just cited, of Gl... ...ir source; 17 wherefore they are moved to diverse ports through the great sea of being, and each one with an instinct given to it which may bear it o... ...e King who inwills us with His will. And His will is our peace; it is that sea whereunto is moving all that which It creates and which nature makes.” ... ..., took from the asp sudden and black death. With him it ran far as the Red Sea shore; with him it set the world in peace so great that on Janus his te... ... for Italy, used only by the poets. 12 Bari on the Adriatic, Gaeta on the Mediterranean, and Catons at the too of Italy, together with the two rivers... ... here, and they are no less unfamiliar in Italian than in English. 21 The Mediterranean. 37 Dante – Paradise was wont to make the horizon. 22 I was...

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...to offer, with its beautiful white sand, crystal clear water, and the warm Mediterranean climate. There are no lifeguards on the beaches in Greece, so... ...d practice all summer long and run the time trials before the start of the sea- son. (Time trials are where a runner or a team of runners are timed in... ...o needless to say, I stayed on the team. I ran a glorious, record breaking sea- son and owe it both to Greg and persever- ance. It was then that I lea...

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...r primal source. Thus they to different havens are mov’d on Through the vast sea of being, and each one With instinct giv’n, that bears it in its cour... ...hores The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise 5 Revisit, nor put out to open sea, Where losing me, perchance ye may remain Bewilder’d in deep maze. Th... ... Took from the adder black and sudden death. With him it ran e’en to the Red Sea coast; With him compos’d the world to such a peace, That of his templ... ...From where the Trento disembogues his waves, With Verde mingled, to the salt sea flood. Already on my temples beam’d the crown, Which gave me sov’reig... ... slake thy thirst, no less constrained were, Than water flowing not unto the sea. Thou fain wouldst hear, what plants are these, that bloom In the bri... ...h one had six wings.” Isaiah, c. vi. 2. v. 80. The valley of waters.] The Mediterranean sea. v. 80. That.] The great ocean. v. 82. Discordant sh... ...nt shores.] Europe and Africa. v. 83. Meridian.] Extending to the east, the Mediterranean at last reaches the coast of Palestine, which is on its ho...

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...approached to its conclusion, he probably worked with redoubled vigour, as sea- men increase their exertion and alacrity when they have a near prospec... ... His negro servant, Francis Barber, having left him, and been some time at sea, not pressed as has been supposed, but with his own con- sent, it appea... ...should forget me, than that I should forget you.’ As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rol... ... 315 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ‘I think I had not been on this side of the sea five days before I found a sensible improvement in my health. I ran a r... ...He took occa- sion to enlarge, as he often did, upon the wretchedness of a sea-life. ‘A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, be... ...man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world; th... ...most all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.’ The General observed, that ‘The Mediterranean would be a no...

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...me a holiday boy, and the whole six climbed rocks, paddled, boated, hunted sea weeds and sea animals, lived on the beach from morning to night; and we... ...CHICKENS But when our father came not here, I thought if we could find the sea We should be sure to meet him there, And once again might happy be. —Ba... ...nd that we ought to go after them, and there was the bright path along the sea, and I thought we would go too, and that it would be nicer if Jock went... ... those who never saw the like before it gives, like the first sight of the sea or of a snowy mountain, a sensation never to be forgotten. Fret, fatigu... ...n at first. “Well, it is,” said Carey, looking up. “If one was sent out to sea in a boat, it wouldn’t be near so bad as long as one 83 Yonge could se... ...far more than he knew. After his winters under genial skies, close to blue Mediterranean waves, English weather was trying; and, in contrast with sout...

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...sed so piteously. And even as one who with spent breath, issued out of the sea upon the shore, turns to the perilous water and gazes, so did my soul, ... ...en of the moon, nearest to the earth. 4 The Virgin. 21 Dante whereof the sea hath no vaunt?” In the world never were persons swift to seek their goo... ... smites me. I had come into a place mute of all light, that bellows as the sea does in a tempest, if it be combated by opposing winds. The infernal hu... ...he wind, as now, is hushed for us. The city where I was born sits upon the sea-shore, where the Po, with its followers, descends to have peace. Love, ... ...ack from so far that hardly could the eye reach it. And I turned me to the Sea of all wisdom; I said, “This one, what says it? and what answers that o... ...ht be averse to talking with a man of the strange modern world. 10 Of the Mediterranean. 11 Piu oltre non; the famous Ne plus ultra, adopted as his ...

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...ome back with his luggage later in the day. After purifying himself of his sea-stains, he left his hotel and walked up the Fifth Avenue with all a new... ...d out of the window of his inn at Havre, an hour after his arrival at that sea- port, his adventure did not strike him as having any great freshness. ... ...o Europe to spend the precious remnant of his youth in a malodorous Norman sea-port. The weather was very hot, and neither the hotel nor the town at l... ...etter humor with his situation; the air was freshened by a breeze from the sea; the bloom- ing country, without walls or fences, lay open to the trave... ...ment, na- ture, embodied in the clear, gay sunshine, in the blue and quiet sea, in the daisied grass of the high-shouldered downs, had an air of invit... ...er ten days I may count upon their starting together for the shores of the Mediterranean. The shores of the Mediterra- nean, you know, are lovely, and...

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...ous physical life and long journeys, particu- larly long journeys upon the sea. He owned a little sailing yacht, named after one of his books, “Bel- A... ... Seine, and in the description in “La Vie Errante” of a night spent on the sea,—”to be alone upon the water under the sky, through a warm night,”—in w... ...ce. Incredulous people declare that it is nothing but the screaming of the sea birds, which occasionally resembles bleatings, and occasionally human l... ...e. It knocks down men, and blows down buildings, uproots trees, raises the sea into mountains of water, de- stroys cliffs and casts great ships on to ... ...to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furi- ous and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called madness. I certainly should think t... ..., who spoil Italy, poison Switzerland, render the charm- ing cities of the Mediterranean uninhabitable, carry everywhere their fantastic manias, their...

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...liated our infant commerce to the matron splendors of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean; next, as the central resort of thrme jewellers, or “goldsmit... ...to his admiring and admired friend Lord Bolingbroke. For as to the fear of sea-sickness, that did not arise until a late period of his life; and at an... ...rdly counterbalance the loss which Pope sustained this year from the South Sea Bubble. One thing, by the way, is still unaccountably ne- glected by wr... ... relation 101 Thomas de Quincey to the absolute sum invested in the South Sea fund? The truth is, Pope practised on this, as on other occasions, a li... ... broke down. Lord Bolingbroke, returning from exile, met the bishop at the sea- side; upon which it was wittily remarked that they were “ex- changed.”... ... years succeeding to his school days, he had held a clerkship in the South Sea House. In 1795, he was transferred to the India House. As a junior cler... ...ays to every village throughout Germany. From the po- lar latitudes to the Mediterranean, from the mouths of the Rhine to the Euxine, there was no oth...

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... a cow for the little ones; or else while I go to seek the Lord beyond the sea, I may lose Him in myself.’ Then Elisha fell asleep, and slept till mor... ...twenty kopeks left. ‘Well, ’ thought he, ‘it is no use trying to cross the sea with this. If I beg my way it may be worse than not going at all. Frien... ...ew comrade among them. The an chors were weighed, and the ship put out to sea. All day they sailed smoothly, but towards night a wind arose, rain cam... ...t some white bread. They lay there for twenty four hours, and then put to sea again. At Smyrna they stopped again; and at Alexandria; but at last the... ...ou want more, come back, and I’ll make them. There is plenty of straw this sea son.’ Simon the Soldier at once took command of his army, collected an... ...PASSANT. ) NEAR THE BORDERS OF F RANCE AND I TALY, on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, lies a tiny little kingdom called Monaco. Many a small c...

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...having her title. Miss Dunstable swore that she would wed none but a South Sea Islander; and to Mark was offered the income and duties of Bishop of Sp... ...t the mouth speaketh. But he spoke to an impatient listener. ‘D— the South Sea Islanders, ’ said Mr Sowerby. ‘You’ll have it all your own way in a few... ... of civilization—yes, my friends, the process of civilization? These South Sea islanders have all that a kind Providence can bestow on them; but that ... ...mething about Sundays, I believe. ’ ‘She hoped you would not put the South Sea Islanders up to Sabbath travelling, ’ said Mr Sowerby. ‘And specially b... ...jeering. ‘Do?’ said Mrs Robarts. ‘Yes, something must be done. If I were a Mediterranean I should go to Switzerland, of course; or, as the case is a b... ...ybody except the country publicans, and had of course destroyed the London sea- son among other things. Mrs Harold Smith had only just managed to catc...

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...I was happy once more. I had always wanted to go to that great port of the Mediterranean, where one has new colors and strange customs, and where the ... ... fore or since. But I did not close my eyes: for all about me there rose a sea of most extraordinary sound … the hitherto empty and minute room became... ... that’s soupe!” I said, “My God, I thought Marseilles was somewhere on the Mediterranean Ocean, and that this was a gendarmerie.” “But this is M-a-c-é... ... the threshold. The maps to my right and left, maps of France, maps of the Mediterranean, of Europe, even, were abashed. A little anaemic and humble b... ... squared kindness of cheeks, eyes like cool keys—his heart always with the Sea. The little Machine-Fixer (le petit bonhomme avec le bras cassé as he s... ...thieves of yesterday …. He had been in New York one day. One child died at sea. “Les landes” he cried, towering over The Enormous Room suddenly one ni... ..., its enormous hairy chest heav- ing and tumbling like a monstrous hunk of sea-weed, its flat soiled feet curling and uncurling their ten sour mutilat... ...s window close to which we are talking, that America is, in fact, over the sea. The sea: is that water?—“c ’est de l’eau, monsieur?” Ah: a great quant...

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... “that it is which has been my ruin. A sweet milord of the land across the sea told me so often that I had fine eyes, and kissed them so well, that I ... ...he hand of her child, who wept, although her own eye was as dry as the Red Sea when the Hebrews crossed it under the leadership of Baron Moses, for it... ...ich, as you are probably aware, is an island situated in the corner of the Mediterranean Sea, and formerly celebrated—one knight met in a wood another... ...e probably aware, is an island situated in the corner of the Mediterranean Sea, and formerly celebrated—one knight met in a wood another knight, who h... ...was widowed of the pope. While they were passing the Rhodane, to reach the Mediterranean coast, one of the three pilgrims, who had with him a son abou... ...Pan is slain!” A cry which was heard by some persons navigating the Eubean Sea, and preserved by a Father of the Church. Madame Imperia died without b...

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...invited to spend a week with his sister in Northamptonshire, before he went to sea. Their eager affection in meeting, their exquisite delight in being... ...or William’s sake, “they can write long letters.” “Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excellence as a corre spondent, makes her th... ... excellence as a corre spondent, makes her think you too severe upon us.” “At sea, has she? — In the King’s service of course.” Fanny would rather ha... ...Miss Crawford proceeded to inquire if she had heard lately from her brother at sea, and said that she had quite a curiosity to see him, and imagined h... ...ry fine young man, and advised Fanny to get his picture drawn before he went to sea again — she could not help admitting it to be very agreeable flatter... ...pinned against the wall, a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago from the Mediterranean by William, with H. M. S. Antwerp at the bottom, in lette... ...ply for information as to the probable period of the Antwerp’s return from the Mediterranean, &c.; and the good luck which attended his early examinat... ...ll. Young as he was, William had already seen a great deal. He had been in the Mediterranean — in the West Indies — in the Mediterranean again — had b...

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...er, level and solid, spread the big green cricket-field, like the bed of a sea of light. Children played in the bluish shadow of the pavilion. Many ro... ...ge shipping firm, and at the midsummer his chief offered him a trip in the Mediterranean on one of the boats, for quite a small cost. Mrs. Morel wrote... ...ve a chance again, and I should love to think of you cruising there in the Mediterranean almost 91 D.H. Lawrence better than to have you at home.” Bu... ... at home.” But William came home for his fortnight’s holiday. Not even the Mediterranean, which pulled at all his young man’s desire to travel, and at... ...n slowly into her lading-can. “I wish this boiler was at the bottom of the sea!” she exclaimed, wriggling the handle impatiently. She had very handsom... ... the seaside he wrote long letters to Mrs. Leivers about the shore and the sea. And he brought back his beloved sketches of the flat Lincoln coast, an... ...h shame, and in a moment got down. “They say if you can swing you won’t be sea-sick,” he said, as he mounted again. “I don’t believe I should ever be ... ... the front garden. But they loved the house that lay so soli- tary, with a sea-meadow on one side, and immense ex- panse of land patched in white barl...

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...t? STRAKER. Paris to Biskra at forty mile an hour average, not countin the Mediterranean. TANNER. How many killed? STRAKER. T wo silly sheep. What doe... ... and swagger about with the consciousness of hav- ing the blood of the old sea kings in his veins. Call him liar and thief; and he will only take an a... ...UE. Stuff! As an old soldier I admit the coward- ice: it’s as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little. But that about putting an idea in...

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... future be required to move her family to that residence during the London sea- sons. The sort of conversation which grew from such a commencement may... ...in the magnanimity of his reticence. It is sometimes becoming enough for a Mediterranean to wrap himself in the digni- fied toga of silence, and procl... ...conversation passed in this wise. The site of the passionate scene was the sea-shore, on which they were walking, in autumn. Gentleman. ‘Well, Miss —,... ...kill. Sir Roger hav- ing been declared contractor for cutting a canal from sea to sea, through the isthmus of Panama, had been making a week of it; an... ...ll that tea at the Junction if they will; but if China were sunk under the sea it would make no difference to them. ’ Dr Thorne always was in a fever ... ...g? As to flotsam and jetsam—there was a little property, Mr Critic, on the sea-shore—that was a matter that had to be left unsettled at the last. Such...

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...eed to bottle, like wave rippling after wave along the sunny shores of the Mediterranean, and disappear as if the T euton possessed the absorbing powe... ...nd disappear as if the T euton possessed the absorbing power of sponges or sea sand. Perfect harmony prevails meanwhile; there is none of the racket t...