...nearly related to Rule Britannia, and that if Great Britain hadn’t been an island, there could have been no Miss Pecksniffs. And being now on a nautic... ...her come the sounding voices from the cav- erns on the coast of that small island, sleeping, a thousand miles away, so quietly in the midst of angry w... ...t great speed up a beautiful bay; and presently they saw some heights, and islands, and a long, flat, straggling city. ‘And this,’ said Mr Tapley, loo... ...ver been a scourge, a torment to the world. The naked visitors to Crusoe’s Island, sir; the flying wives of Peter Wilkins; the fruit-smeared children ... ...ast attained. ‘I used to think, sometimes,’ said Mr Tapley, ‘as a desolate island would suit me, but I should only have had myself to provide for ther... ... There’s a tone!’ over the hills and far away,’ indeed. Yoho! The skittish mare is all alive to-night. Yoho! Yoho! See the bright moon! High up before...

...u will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. Engla... ...t of these Is lands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly li... ...go, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place, and the stormy sea roared round them, just ... ...r forests; but the winds and waves brought no adventurers to land upon the Islands, and the savage Islanders knew nothing of the rest of the world, an... ...carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8 in ships to these Islands, and found that they produced tin and lead; both very useful things... ...d first saw her without her seeing him, he swore she was ‘a great Flanders mare,’ and said he would never marry her. Being obliged to do it now matter...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map a...

...r of a chart she is always aim- ing for that one little spot—maybe a small island in the ocean, a single headland upon the long coast of a continent, ... ... we passed St. Helena; was laid up for a time when we were off the Western Islands, but got out of bed to make his Land- fall. He managed to keep up o... ...of the fact that it was Bangkok), a bit of manoeuvring of mine amongst the islands of the Gulf of Siam had given him an unforgettable scare. Ever sinc... ...” had she not been sighted in a snowstorm, vaguely, like a strange rolling island, by a whaler going north from her Po- lar cruising ground. There was... ...ly “Cape Horn,” and, indeed, with some reason, for Cape Horn is as much an island as a cape. The third stormy cape of the world, which is the Leeuwin,... ...w estuary is inhospitable and dangerous, and whose docks are like a night- mare of dreariness and misery. Their dismal shores 96 The Mirror of the Se...

...were called Britons. And the country he came to see? That was our very own island, England, only it was not called so then. And the place where Julius... ...k. One of their emperors, named Claudius, sent his soldiers to conquer the island, and then came to see it himself, and called himself Brittanicus in ... ... then three lovely ladies came in a boat, and carried him away to a secret island. The Welsh kept on saying, for years and years, that one day king Ar... ... There were generally about seven kings, each with a different part of the island and as they were often at war with one another, they used to steal o... ...mined to punish the cruel, treacherous king and people, and take the whole island for his own. He did punish the people, kill- ing, burning, and plund... ...uld not bear the sight of her, and said they had sent him a great Flanders mare by way of queen. So he made Cranmer find some fool- ish excuse for bre...

...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...

...eyes the city cut into three by the two arms of the river, the boat-shaped island “moored” by five bridges to the different shores, and the two unequa... ... like a peal of beals! When we compare the Farmer’s Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie, with the clever and inhumane pro- duction of half a century ea... ...lever and inhumane pro- duction of half a century earlier, The Auld Man ’s Mare ’s Dead, we see in a nutshell the spirit of the change introduced by B... ...in the light of a kill-joy. I take it, when missionaries land in South Sea Islands and lay strange em- *Champollion-Figeac, 383, 384-386. *Works, ii. ... ... Familiar Studies of Men & Books bargo on the simplest things in life, the islanders will not be much more puzzled and irritated than Charles of Orlea...