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...Vizitam mina Queen din oraselul asezat între dealuri, dar cochet, Bisbee. N-am stiut ca pe la începutul secolului Bisbee era cea mai mare localitate din Arizona (datorita mineritului). Mergem cu masina lui Ely, MAZDA ’84 – are deja peste 120.000 de mile la bord. Mina Queen a fost deschisa în 1917, în 1920 electrificata, în 1941 închisa, iar în 1975 refacut...

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...ochet, Bisbee. N-am ştiut ca pe la începutul secolului Bisbee era cea mai mare localitate din Arizona (datorit ă mineritului). Mergem cu ma şina l... ...şine când nu ştiu ceva (chiar fundamental ori elementar). Motiveaz ă, cu mare indiferen ţă, c ă nu-i intereseaz ă... (Pe când un român ar intra în ... ...ngleur (ne spue c ă a şa î şi duce existen ţa). Cu focul, popice, o minge mare şi-o p ăl ărie în care strângea banii (fiecare cât dorea sau nimic). ... ...c de s ăracul înghi ţitor de s ăbii al lui Alexandru Sahia... “Cea mai mare gr ădin ă zoologic ă!” La “San Diego Zoo”. Suntem plimba ţi cu auto... ...de minute şi putem vedea 80% dintre animalele expuse. Cic ă ar fi cea mai mare gr ădin ă zoologic ă din lume (zic ei!). La americani, neap ărat ceva... ...it ă chiar Hawaii (precum întreg arhipelagul), o zi, 139 $. Zbur ăm inter-islands cu Aloha – companie local ă, 35 de minute din Honolulu în Kona. Ai...

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... SAPPHO’S JOURNAL Sappho, walking on her island beach, pauses by a broken amphora: With one foot, she nudges the... ... 9 Villa Poseidon, Mytilene 642 B.C. he great storm beats across the island, rattling the olive and the cypress, piling the surf on the beach... ...of my terra cotta lamp is cold. Some say that a storm will wash away our island, but I do not believe it. Our island will be here long after I hav... ...rs sweeping him away. Ten years we had lived with fear creeping about our island. Ten years—how my fingers trembled. I saw those years, there on the... ...ercolas and I had such fun, when we were newly married and rode our white mares, across the island and along the shore, sometimes swimming them. Whe... ..., on the beach, beneath the thatch of her stable. Cercolas took the other mare, to die with him at war, I suppose it was. How can I know? Our horse... ... their white faces peering, yellow manes shining: white, in memory of our mares, white as gulls. I wish I could hear their whinnying across the fiel... ...ey race toward me. Warriors brag about their fearless horses but I prefer mares that nip my hands and tug my clothes. P Music is a tree, a cave wi... ... with other horsemen, perhaps a dozen of us, Duke Lorenzo on his favorite mare, both of us a little to the front of the Medici pennants, flags, and ...

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...PPHO’S JOURNAL Sappho, walking on her island beach, pauses by a broken amphora: With one foot, she nudges the... ... 5 Villa Poseidon, Mytilene 642 B.C. he great storm beats across the island, rattling the olive and the cypress, piling the surf on the beach... ...of my terra cotta lamp is cold. Some say that a storm will wash away our island, but I do not believe it. Our island will be here long after I hav... ...rs sweeping him away. Ten years we had lived with fear creeping about our island. Ten years—how my fingers trembled. I saw those years, there on the... ...ry. I wish to pay my re- spects, and offer my thanks for our return to our island. I know how beautiful it is...” There was a murmur of appreciation... ...ercolas and I had such fun, when we were newly married and rode our white mares, across the island and along the shore, sometimes swimming them. Whe... ..., on the beach, beneath the thatch of her stable. Cercolas took the other mare, to die with him at war, I suppose it was. How can I know? Our horse... ... their white faces peering, yellow manes shining: white, in memory of our mares, white as gulls. I wish I could hear their whinnying across the fiel... ...ey race toward me. Warriors brag about their fearless horses but I prefer mares that nip my hands and tug my clothes. P Music is a tree, a cave wi...

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...OF THE PERVERSE.............................................................................................................................. 122 THE ISLAND OF THE FAY .................................................................................................................................... 127 THE ASSIGNATION .........................................................

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..................................................................... 122 THE ISLAND OF THE FA Y ........................................................... ...s I have related, up hill and down hill until, at length, we arrived at an island, many hundreds of miles in cir- cumference, but which, nevertheless,... ...of little things like caterpillars’”* “Hum!” said the king. “‘Leaving this island,’ said Sinbad — (for Scheherazade, it must be understood, took no no... ... took no notice of her husband’s ill-man- nered ejaculation) ‘leaving this island, we came to another where the forests were of solid stone, and so ha... ...attention, continued in the language of Sinbad. “‘Passing beyond this last island, we reached a country where there was a cave that ran to the distanc... ...t breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight—an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off—incumbent eter- nally upon my heart! ... ...e,” and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, “agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi.” 229 V olume Two We will sa...

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... find some other occupation. So Onund and his party returned to the Southern Islands, where they met many of their friends. There was a man named Ofei... ...ere Helgi the Lean and Snaebjorn. When Thrand and Onund came to the Southern Islands they found there Ofeig Grettir and Thormod Shaft, with whom they ... ...hrand and Onund went out against them and learned that they had sailed to an island called Bot. Onund and Thrand followed them thither with five ships... ...uld easily retire by merely backing their oars. One ship he brought under an island lying on their beam, and carried a great stone to a place on the f... ...ck fire warming. “You are to do what I tell you,” said Asmund. “I have a dun mare with a dark stripe down her back whom I call Keingala. She is very k... ... cold work, and fit for a man to do; but it seems to me rash to trust to the mare, when to my knowledge no one has done so before.” So Grettir took to... ...r,” he said, “if they cannot control it.” The stallions were led out and the mares tethered together in the front on the bank of the river. There was ... ...f his ribs were broken and Odd fell into the pool with his horse and all the mares that were tethered there by the bank. Some people swam out and resc... ...he often composed verses which it was a delight to listen to. He had a brown mare, the swiftest of horses, which he called Saddle head. Once Grettir l...

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...lish prejudices which have made Rabelais misunderstood, and M. Burgaud des Marets set the text on a quite new base. Having proved, what of course is v... ...nd the value of its notes, which are short and very judicious, Burgaud des Marets’ edi- tion is valuable, and is amongst those which should be known a... ... To the heaven’s guests, shall in its beacon come. Then shall the breeding mares, that benumb’d were, Like royal palfreys ride trium- phant there. And... ...ime. Chapter 1.XVI. How Gargantua was sent to Paris, and of the huge great mare that he rode on; how she destroyed the oxflies of the Beauce. In the s... ... sent out of the country of Africa to Grangousier the most hideously great mare that ever was seen, and of the strangest form, for you know well enoug... ...l take into your hands Majorca, Minorca, Sardinia, Corsica, with the other islands of the Ligustic and Balearian seas. Going alongst on the left hand,... ...e we will sail eastwards, and take Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Cyclade Islands, and set 115 Rabelais upon (the) Morea. It is ours, by St. Trenian... ... Verron, of Coulaines, of Chose, of Varenes, of Bourgueil, of the Bouchard Island, of the Croullay, of Narsay, of Cande, of Montsoreau, and other bord... ...did after the battle. Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat...

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...it declivia ripis; Quae, diversa locis, partim sorbentur ab ipsa; In mare perveniunt partim, campoque recepta Liberioris aquae, pro ripis lit... ... buds until the waters subside. You shall perhaps run aground on Cranberry Island, only some spires of last year’s pipe grass above water, to show whe... ...at on the west side of a little rising ground which in the spring forms an island in the river. Here we found huckleberries still hanging upon the bus... ... preserve the memory of its freshness to mid day. As we passed the various islands, or what were islands in the spring, row ing with our backs down s... ...tream, we gave names to them. The one on which we had camped we called Fox Island, and one fine densely wooded island surrounded by deep water and ove... ...ike a mass of ver dure and of flowers cast upon the waves, we named Grape Island. From Ball’s Hill to Billerica meeting house, the river was still tw...

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...t distance to the east- ward, although perfectly discernible, extended the islands of Great Britain, the entire Atlantic coasts of France and Spain, w... ...indled into a dim speck, the dark Mediterranean sea, dot- ted with shining islands as the heaven is dotted with stars, spread itself out to the eastwa... ...elow me in the ocean lay a cluster of black specks, which undoubtedly were islands. Far away to the northward I perceived a thin, white, and exceeding... ...rn, being now of a grayish-white, and of a lustre dazzling to the eye. The islands were no longer visible; whether they had passed down the horizon to... ...; the east being to the left, etc. Deceived, perhaps, by the vague titles, Mare Nubium, Mare Tranquillitatis, Mare Faecunditatis, etc., given to the d... ...is but a literal copy of Peter Wilkins’ account of the wings of his flying islanders. This simple fact should have induced suspi- cion, at least, it m...

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... Hanno, he whose slackness had assisted to lose the battle of the Aegatian islands; and as to his victory at Hecatompylos over the Libyans, even if he... ...Both the Suffets are agreed, and this one is imposing on you! Remember the Island of Bones, and Xanthippus, whom they sent back to Sparta in a rotten ... ...gether with the Iberians, Lusitanians, and the men of the West, and of the islands; all those who spoke Greek had asked for Spendius on account of his... ...untains reared themselves, and in the middle of the im- mense lake rose an island perfectly black and pyramidal in form. On the left, at the extremity... ...their capitals and forming continuous porticoes all round the basin. On an island in the centre stood a house for the marine Suffet. The water was so ... ...e; the Garamantians, masked with black veils, rode behind on their painted mares; others were mounted on asses, onagers, ze- bras, and buffaloes; whil...

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...ught before it reached the ground in the ill-groomed mane of the old white mare standing motionless at the door. Charles from horseback threw her a ki... ...er-knots of liveries. The lad from the posting house who came to groom the mare every morning passed through the passage with his heavy wooden shoes; ... ...nkled with silver stars, and with red cheeks, like an idol of the Sandwich Islands; and, finally, a copy of the “Holy Family, presented by the Ministe... ... prancing stallions that neighed with dilated nostrils looking towards the mares. These stood quietly, stretching out their heads and flowing manes, w... ...all right; for on arriving at a patient’s he first of all looked after his mare and his gig. People even said about this— “ Ah! Monsieur Canivet’s a c... .... T owards evening they took a covered boat and went to dine on one of the islands. It was the time when one hears by the side of the dockyard the cau... ...on the decks of vessels. She took off her bonnet, and they landed on their island. They sat down in the low-ceilinged room of a tavern, at whose door ... ...r desires. At night they returned. The boat glided along the shores of the islands. They sat at the bottom, both hidden by the shade, in silence. The ...

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...kes its own away and, roar- ing like the sea, rushes on at will; where the islands, flung into its midst, have pressed it farther from their shores, a... ...ed the ferry-boat, and after a three hours’ sail reached the shores of the island of Khortitz, 32 Gogol where at that time stood the Setch, which so ... ...let the prisoners once be got to the bazaars of Asia Minor, Smyrna, or the island of Crete, and God knows in what places the tufted heads of Zaporozht... ...at and small which empty into the Dnieper, and all the fords and 90 Gogol islands of the Dnieper; they had been in Moldavia, Wallachia, and Turkey; t... ...xcitement. He usually went, first of all, to the stable to see whether his mare was eating her hay; for he had a bay mare with a white star on her for... ...had a bay mare with a white star on her forehead, and a very pretty little mare she was too; then to feed the turkeys and the little pigs with his own... ...carriage and a cart, surrounded by sacks of flour, and whipping up his bay mare with her colt trotting by her side. The aspect of the marketplace is m... ...ressing his aide-de-camp, an active well-made young officer, “have the bay mare brought here. You shall see for yourselves, gentlemen.” At these words... ...ere let out the smoke which he had kept in his mouth till then—”the little mare.” “It is long since your excellency—” puff—puff—puff— ”condescended to...

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... from the river Cam, which after washing the western side, playing through islands, turns to the east, and divides the town into two parts, which are ... ..., CONSISTING OF the two kingdoms of England and Scot- land, is the largest island in the world, encompassed by the ocean, the German and French seas. ... ...hief riches of the inhabitants, great sums of money being brought into the island by merchants, chiefly for that article of trade. The dogs here are p... ... and though he might then have taken that of the merchant to himself, “Per mare, per terras, currit mercator ad Indos.” He might also have said, and t...

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... Laertes’ son? 62 Matthew Arnold Ulysses. I am Ulysses. And thou, too, sleeper? Thy voice is sweet. It may be thou hast foll... ... They see the Scythian On the wide stepp, unharnessing His wheel’d house at noon. 63 Selected Poems He tethers his beast down, and... ... The Gods behold him. They see the Heroes Sitting in the dark ship On the foamless, long-heaving Violet sea. At sunset n... ...ued Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions...

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...ge come crying out, “Where is, where is that obdurate one?” I do not think Maremma 1 A vulgar mode of contemptuous defiance, thrusting out the fist w... ...ne shore and the other 10 I saw as far as Spain, far as Mo- rocco and the island of Sardinia, and the rest which that sea bathes round about. I and m... ... drowned near to the Cattolica, by treachery of a fell tyrant. Between the islands of Cyprus and Majorca Nep- tune never saw so great a crime, not of ... ...if, between July and Septem- ber, from the hospitals of Valdichiana and of Maremma and of Sardinia 3 the sick should all be in one ditch together, 1 ... ...is favor. This Gianni did, but with a clause leaving to himself a favorite mare of Buoso’s, the best in all T uscany. 104 The Divine Comedy – Hell ha... ...e language Dante calls il volgare di ci. (Convito, i. 10.) 5 T wo little islands not far from the mouth of the Arno, on whose banks Pisa lies. 6 Wi...

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...e naked Chalybs, castor rank From Pontus, from Epirus the prize palms O’ the mares of Elis. Such the eternal bond And such the ... ... down, Which Lesbos from Methymna’s tendril plucks. Vines Thasian are there, Mareotids white, These apt for richer soils, for lighter those: Psithian ... ...tell how timorous stags the battle join? O’er all conspicuous is the rage of mares, By V enus’ self inspired of old, what time The Potnian four with r... ...s is filled with falling snow; The cattle perish: oxen’s mighty frames Stand island like amid the frost, and stags In huddling herds, by that strange ... ...! what may not then We lovers look for? soon shall we see mate Griffins with mares, and in the coming age Shy deer and hounds together come to drink. ...

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...d Rhene the meadows wear, A battel soil for grain, for pasture good, Their islanders with them, who oft repair Their earthen bulwarks ‘gainst the ocea... ... There, where the stream did part and meet again And in the midst a gentle island made, A pillar fair was pight beside the main, Near which a little f... ... the world hath not so strange a thing, Twixt east and west, as this small island hides, Then pass and see, without more tarrying.’ The hasty youth to... ...ire breaks out by night, black smoke by day. XXXV About the hill lay other islands small, Where other rocks, crags, cliffs, and mountains stood, The I... ...they be, Y et not so rich as fame reports they were.” This said, toward an island fresh she bore, The first of ten, that lies next Afric’s shore; XXXV... ... always wone, That in vile rest from fight sequestered far, Feeds with the mares at large, his service done, If arms he see, or hear the trumpet’s jar... ...th sandy deserts waste, And thence with Euphrates’ rich flood embraced. VI Maremma, myrrh and spices that doth bring, And all the rich red sea it comp...

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... very shyness awakened in this married woman, the unprincipled wife of the marechal de noblesse of a district where Nekhludoff was present at an elect... ...ing any kind of danger. 15 Tolstoy But his excitement passed at once. The marechal do noblesse, of the district in which his largest estate lay, wrot... ...e roads, as a strong opposition by the reactionary party was expected. The marechal was a liberal, and was quite engrossed in this fight, not even not... ...to turn to. “At any rate, before I get an answer from Mary Vasilievna (the marechal’s wife), and finish completely with her, I can do nothing,” he sai... ...he doctor, and on his right, a visitor, Ivan Ivanovitch Kolosoff, a former Marechal de Noblesse, now a bank director, Korchagin’s friend and a Liberal... ... kept passing. She was thinking that nothing would induce her to go to the island of Sakhalin and marry a convict, but would arrange matters somehow w... ...aces of confinement, from the Peter and Paul Fortress in Petersburg to the island of Sakhalin, hun- dreds and thousands of victims were pining? What d... ...heir surroundings, seemed only to increase the sense of coziness. As on an island in the midst of the sea, these people felt themselves for a brief in...

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...tches; sometimes they had to jump over them. In certain places, Liebard’ s mare stopped abruptly . He waited patiently till she started again, and tal... ...ne can come back from England and Brittany; but America, the colonies, the islands, were all lost in an uncertain region at the very end of the world....

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...ing round, as if from the beginning, and in this way rounding or making an island of our fantastic existence,— that is human life; that the inevitable... ...oliage—a belt of trees, such as we see in the lovely parks of England, but islanded by a screen (though not everywhere occupied by the usurpations) of... ...ldoune in the north, and many monkish local prophets for every part of the island; but latterly England had no ter- rific prophet, unless, indeed Nixo... ...me sav- age ignorance appears, and only not so often, in the bread of this island. Myriads of families eat it in that early stage of sponge which brea... ...all varieties of misery. But the per- fection of barbarism, as regards our island cookery, is reserved for animal food; and the two poles of Oromasdes... ...rce—how slow was its de- velopment! Before such works as the Consolato del Mare had been matured, how wide must have been the experience, and how slow...

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...covered, in these later ages, whole nations, at the bay of Soldania, in Brazil, [in Boranday,] and in the Caribbee islands, &c., amongst whom there wa... ... of a God, who has not also the idea of fire. I doubt not but if a colony of young children should be placed in an island where no fire was, they woul... ...w, son-in-law, husband, friend, enemy, sub- ject, general, judge, patron, client, professor, European, Englishman, islander, servant, master, possesso... ... we have reason to think this is not impossible, since mules and jumarts, the one from the mixture of an ass and a mare, the other from the mixture of...

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...d more than anything to argue with La Dolciquita; to retire with her to an island and point out to her the damnation of her point of view and how salv... ...Ride Leonora could not, that season—her head was too bad. Each pace of her mare was an anguish. But she drove with efficiency and precision; she smile... ...f together; attempt to chaff Nancy about a stake and binder hedge that her mare had checked at, or talk about the habits of the Chitralis. That was wh...

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...ce and thinner in another, so that the reeds and willow bushes swayed like islands in this mist. At the edge of the marsh and the road, peasant boys a... ...d-humored smile as she recog- nized him. Behind rode Vronsky on a dark bay mare, obviously heated from galloping. He was holding her in, pulling at th...

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... jostling masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence... ...tols. He rode up to Kirsten. The staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a walk to meet him. His face with its long mustache was seriou... ... V ery well. Next day, which was yesterday, those gentlemen, messieurs les marechaux,* Murat, Lannes,and Belliard, mount and ride to bridge. (Observe ...

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...ars after the flight of the two boys from Moncrief House, a lady sat in an island of shadow which was made by a cedar-tree in the midst of a glitterin... ... embark- ing in a great shell and being drawn by swans to some en- chanted island. Her playing reminds me of myself as I was when I believed in fairyl... ...ce; and the police were naturally reluctant to admit that they had found a mare’s nest. In proof that the fight had been premeditated, and was a prize...

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...rietors such as we are, to St. Helena; making us a handsome present of the island by way of indemnity! W e are such a restless, unhappy lot, that I do... ...nd so— “‘Jack shall have Jill, Nought shall go ill, The man shall have his mare again; And all shall be well.’” 227 GB Shaw APPENDIX LETTER TO THE AU...

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...ext morning Zhílin saw the red Tartar, followed by three others, leading a mare out of the village. When they were beyond the village, the red bearded... ...rew a dagger and sharpened it on a whetstone. The other Tartars raised the mare’s head, and he cut her throat, threw her down and began skin ning her... .... Women and girls came and began to wash the entrails and the inwards. The mare was cut up, the pieces taken into the hut, and the whole village colle... ...t for a funeral feast. For three days they went on eating the flesh of the mare, drinking buza, and praying for the dead man. All the Tartars were at ... ...n away to town, and took the grey stallion. And Iván was left with one old mare, to lead his peasant life as before, and to support his father and mot... ...them. I should like to hear. What were you pointing at?’ ‘Why, that little island you can just see over there,’ answered the man, pointing to a spot a... ... the man, pointing to a spot ahead and a little to the right. ‘That is the island where the hermits live for the salvation of their souls.’ Twenty thr... ...s.’ Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “The Three Hermits” 159 ‘Where is the island?’ asked the Bishop. ‘I see noth ing.’ ‘There, in the distance, if y... ... Below it and a bit to the left, there is just a faint streak. That is the island.’ The Bishop looked carefully, but his unaccustomed eyes could make ...

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...rs live in a land of marshes and mountains, lakes and rivers, seas, gulfs, islands, and inlets, and they call themselves Suomilainen, Fen dwellers. T... ... and offerings of bread and broth are made to him every morning. Putting a mare’s collar on one’s neck and walking nine times around a church is thoug... ...wrecked so often, Where so many lives have perished. Thus created were the islands, Rocks were fastened in the ocean, Pillars of the sky were planted,... ...nd gloomy dwelling, Hence to wander from the ocean, Hence to walk upon the islands, On the dry land walk and wander, Like an ancient hero wander, Walk... ...ING WING WING WING WING Then arose old Wainamoinen, With his feet upon the island, On the island washed by ocean, Broad expanse devoid of verdure; The... ...re; There remained be many summers, There he lived as many winters, On the island vast and vacant, well considered, long reflected, Who for him should...

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...er attack, my- self. July 4. I am decidedly taken again; for my old night- mares have returned. Last night I felt somebody leaning on me who was sucki... ...t mad. I have seen —I have seen—I have seen!—I can doubt no longer — *Frog-island. 67 Selected Writings I have seen it! I was walking at two o’clock ... ...ensual love that she had never be- stowed on men. “One thing is certain: a mare roaming in a meadow with a foal at its side, a bird’s nest full of you... ... stout, commonplace mother, a human layer and 133 Selected Writings brood mare, a machine of flesh which procreates, without mental care save for her... ...re traces be- hind him. Some time afterward, Madame von Chabert was on the Island of Heligoland, for the sea-bathing; and one day she saw Escovedo-Rom... ...it down close to it.” The skiff seemed to glide. They saw the trees on the island, the banks of which were so low that they could look into the depths...

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...row; and had not rather its Ancestor alive when Hengst and Horsa overran thy Island? Friend, thou seest here a living link in that Tissue of History, ... ...actual horizon there is not a looming as of Land; a promise of new Fortunate Islands, perhaps whole undiscovered Americas, for such as have canvas to ... ... existence was a bright, soft element of Joy; out of which, as in Prospero’s Island, wonder after wonder bodied itself forth, to teach by charming. “N... ... will meet with adventures. Nay, as we forthwith discover, a certain Calypso Island detains him at the very outset; and as it were falsifies and overse... ...stand, of Ireland, where its chief seat still is; but known also in the main Island, and indeed everywhere rapidly spreading. As this Sect has hith e... ... neither horse nor man could be injured; her Regiment, namely, of Tailors on Mares? Thus everywhere is the falsehood taken for granted, and acted on a...

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...d Rhene the meadows wear, A battel soil for grain, for pasture good, Their islanders with them, who oft repair Their earthen bulwarks ‘gainst the ocea... ... There, where the stream did part and meet again And in the midst a gentle island made, A pillar fair was pight beside the main, Near which a little f... ... the world hath not so strange a thing, Twixt east and west, as this small island hides, Then pass and see, without more tarrying.’ The hasty youth to... ...ire breaks out by night, black smoke by day. XXXV About the hill lay other islands small, Where other rocks, crags, cliffs, and mountains stood, The I... ...they be, Y et not so rich as fame reports they were.” This said, toward an island fresh she bore, The first of ten, that lies next Afric’s shore; XXXV... ... always wone, That in vile rest from fight sequestered far, Feeds with the mares at large, his service done, If arms he see, or hear the trumpet’s jar... ...th sandy deserts waste, And thence with Euphrates’ rich flood embraced. VI Maremma, myrrh and spices that doth bring, And all the rich red sea it comp... ... your distress I grieve, 366 “Man goeth forth to labor with the sun, 132 Maremma, myrrh and spices that doth bring, 374 Mast great the spear was wh...

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...and, and make the Libyan shores. Within a long recess there lies a bay: An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to... ...s, with a prosp’rous wind, And leave the cities and the shores behind. “An island in th’ Aegaean main appears; Neptune and wat’ry Doris claim it their... ... Then round th’ Italian coast your navy steer; And, after this, to Circe’s island veer; And, last, before your new foundations rise, Must pass the Sty... ...rs rely! Such, and so vast as Polypheme appears, A hundred more this hated island bears: Like him, in caves they shut their woolly sheep; Like him, th... ...d ethereal fire; Whom Circe stole from her celestial sire, By substituting mares produc’d on earth, Whose wombs conceiv’d a more than mortal birth. Th... ...y of men. A shepherd’s solitary life he led; His daughter with the milk of mares he fed. The dugs of bears, and ev’ry salvage beast, He drew, and thro...

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... jostling masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence... ...ols. He rode up to Kirsten. The staff captain on his broad- backed, steady mare came at a walk to meet him. His face with its long mustache was seriou... ...V ery well. Next day , which was yesterday, those gentlemen, messieurs les marechaux,* Murat, Lannes,and Belliard, mount and ride to bridge. (Observe ... ...rrow pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he moved... ... by his suite of officers and courtiers, was riding a bob- tailed chestnut mare, a different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bend... ...ed ravines and the copses, which at the end of August had still been green islands amid black fields and stubble, had become golden and bright-red isl... ... their talk with a serious and thoughtful air, and then got up again. “The island of Madagascar,” she said, “Ma-da-gas- car,” she repeated, articulati... ... her arms round his neck, and he pranced along with her. “No, don’t... the island of Madagascar!” she said, and jumping off his back she went downstai... ...the house. Several limes in the old garden had been cut down and a piebald mare and her foal were wandering in front of the house among the rosebushes...

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...r country, and be poor! VARIATIONS. After VER. 6, in the MS.— Yon see that island’s wealth, where, only free, Earth to her entrails feels not tyranny.... ... then that dirty stable-boy thy care? What mean those visits to the sorrel mare? 30 Say, by what witchcraft, or what demon led, ... ...’st thou litter to the marriage-bed? Some say the devil himself is in that mare: If so, our Dean shall drive him forth by prayer. Some think you mad, ... ...ps my Gulliver? Oh tell me where!’ The neighbours answer, ‘With the sorrel mare!’ At early morn I to the market haste ... ...y’s corn. ’Tis not for that I grieve; oh, ’tis to see The groom and sorrel mare preferr’d to me! 60 These, for some moments when y... ...hose very na- tions again reduced to her dominion: then distinguishing the island of Great Britain, shows by what aids, by what per- 222 The Poetical...

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...hich I found, about a year ago, tightly corked up in a jug floating in the Mare Tenebrarum—a sea well described by the Nubian geographer, but seldom v... ...al pleasure garden. Paradise, it appears, has been, literally speaking, an island time out of mind —that is to say, its northern boundary was always (... ...ened until it attained its present breadth—a mile. The whole length of the island is nine miles; the breadth varies materially. The entire area (so Pu... ... that went by the names of Wealth and Fashion. In the end, it is said, the island became, nine tenths of it, church. The women, too, it appears, were ... ...g in the centre of the emperors garden, (which, you know, covers the whole island), some of the workmen unearthed a cubical and evidently chiseled blo... ...ve, after four days of intense dis- tress, upon the beach opposite Roanoke Island. We remained here a week, were not ill-treated by the wreckers, and ...

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...the house. Several limes in the old garden had been cut down and a piebald mare and her foal were wandering in front of the house among the rose- bush... ...loose the cavalry to gather in the baggage wagons. So it had been at Lodi, Marengo, Arcola, Jena, Austerlitz, Wagram, and so on. But now something str... ...eld was superb,” because fifty thousand corpses lay there, but even on the island of St. Hel- ena in the peaceful solitude where he said he intended t... ...ld not permitit. It was not Napoleon alone who had experienced that night- mare feeling of the mighty arm being stricken powerless, but all the genera...

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...similar circum- stance of a tribe of Samaritan Jews dwelling on one of the islands in the Red Sea. 20 “The calf came forth (Ex. xxxii. 24) lowing and... ...The Commentators say that the word used in the origi- nal implies that the mares stood on three feet, and touched the ground with the edge of the four...