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...ne) Calls thee to this thrice-honorable prize; Montaigne, no cragg'd Mountaine, but faire plaine. And who would resty rest, when SHEE bids ... ...oney?' Xerxes whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill Athos: And Cyrus for many daies together ammused his whole armie to be rev... ...o Francis our King, and over all his forces, which he then had beyond the Mountaines in Italie, a man highly favoured in al our court, and otherwise... ...o shewing him to the Lord of Villiers, Commissarie of the Artillerie, hee mounted a culverin so levell, that had not the Marquis perceived the fire, ... ... is ours, if we compare it with eternitie, or equall it to the lasting of mountains, rivers, stars, and trees, or any other living creature, is not ... ...sheep, and also by partridges and hares, that grow white by the snow upon mountaines. There was lately seene a cat about my owne house, so earnestly ...

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...ge!” “No, I was drunk. And yet, since the amusement seemed to me rather tame, I proposed to Chevalier de Rieux that we should be spectators instead of... ...e and passed, the day after, a week; I then wrote to the cardinal. The same day they came for me and took me to the Bastile. That was five years ago. ... ...se.” “Therefore, whenever you find any opportunity of say- ing something in my behalf—” 26 Twenty Years After “I shall say it, and you?” “I shall do ... ...into the depths of an immense pocket. “Well, then, all is settled; you are to set off,” said the cardinal. “Yes, my lord.” “Apropos, what are the name... ... long as he was surrounded by his friends he retained his youth and the poetry of his char- acter. He was one of those fine, ingenuous natures which a... ...s of others. Athos imparted to him his greatness of soul, Porthos his enthusiasm, Aramis his elegance. Had D’Artagnan contin- ued his intimacy with th... ...me in gazing at Bazin. Bazin wore his dress, it may be observed, with equal dig- nity and saintly propriety. It was not difficult to understand that h... ...ith! I neither know nor care. What I do care for now, is to make my way into the Jesuits’ convent; so to horse and let us knock at their door. Happen ... ...enough.” “Sir,” said Planchet when he saw D’Artagnan on the sum- mit of the ladder, “this way is easy for Monsieur Aramis and even for you; in case of...

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... which he was soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the names of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. 4 The Three Musketeers We must confess these t... ...this manuscript, our last hope, we found at the twentieth page the name of Athos, at the twenty-seventh the name of Porthos, and at the thirty-first t... ...abbe. Be one or the other, but not both,” replied Porthos. “Y ou know what Athos told you the other day; you eat at everybody’s mess. Ah, don’t be ang... ...g of you, that would be useless; you know what is agreed upon between you, Athos and me. You go to Madame d’Aguillon’s, and you pay your court to her;... ...ossible, D’Artagnan drew his sword. 52 The Three Musketeers The blood had mounted to the head of D’Artagnan, and at that moment he would have drawn h... ...re, I can assert that they have hitherto discovered no gold mines in their mountains; though the Lord owes them this miracle in recompense for the man... ...he began service. Then it became the turn of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis to mount guard with D’Artagnan when he was on duty. The company of M. le Cheva... ...n in black, who rummaged every place and took all the papers. The last two mounted guard at the door during this exami- nation; then, when all was ove... ...idered himself an outraged, betrayed, and ridiculed lover. Blood and anger mounted to his face; he was resolved to unravel the mystery. The young man ...

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...elt for the banister, a silk dress which rubbed against each side of the staircase. At every false step made by Raoul, his conductress cried, “Hush!” ... ...rive better than that to do without papa’s consent. Ask Malicorne else!” And at these words the girl pushed Raoul out of the room by the shoulders. He... ...een curled by mortal passions; a form straight and supple; an irreproachable but thin hand — this was what remained of the illustrious gentleman whom ... ...rses. The pages and people of the cardinal marched behind. Next came the carriage of the queen-mother, with her maids of honor at the doors, her gentl... ...urther have appeared, if not in- convenient, at least extraordinary, to a stranger, was, that the side of the castle destined for monsieur le cardinal... ...itted him to hear the sound of his own footsteps, accompanied with the jingling of his spurs upon the stone slabs. This guard was one of the twenty mu... ...ior of the palace. But he himself remained an in- stant under the porch watching the departing Charles II., till he was lost in the turn of the next s... ...e gentleman to whom our house is indebted for such a noble example of devotedness and generosity. Hold my horse, my friend, if you please.” And, throw... ...ave, for a long time, had the expres- sion of a profound gratitude to bring you. I am Charles II., son of Charles Stuart, who reigned in England, and ...

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... treasures it brings down at eve. THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH A breath of the mountains, fresh born in the regions majestic, That look with their eye-dar... ...From the winding river-reaches, Mellowing in amber haze. Thro’ the flaming mountain gorges Lo, the River leaps the plain; Like a wild god-stridden cou... ... of light it looks! How glorious with rare suggestive grace! The ploughman mounting up the height Becomes a glowing shape, as though ‘T were young T r... ... day in the grass of our own beloved country; Revel all day, till the lark mounts at eve with his sweet ‘tirra-lirra’: T rilling delightfully. See, o... ... forth, and all was still. Swathed round in mist and crown’d with cloud, O Mountain! hid from peak to base – Caught up into the heavens and clasped In... ...ance may change of masks midway demand, Albeit the man rise mountainous as Athos, The woman wild as Cape Leucadia stand. II For this the Comic Muse ex...

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... low rim, or seat, and about five yards over. The whole is hewn out of the mountain, is rude, indistinct, and probably of the most remote antiquity.” ... ...he motion of Hector’s plumes in the epithet Korythaiolos, the landscape of Mount Neritus in that of Einosiphyllos, and so of others, which particular ... ...ave justice done them by circumlocution; as the epithet einosiphyllos to a mountain, would appear little or ridiculous translated literally “leaf-shak... ...eaf-shak- ing,” but affords a majestic idea in the periphrasis: “the lofty mountain shakes his waving woods.” Others that admit of different significa... ...ded power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, 4 And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, 5 And fo... ...n’d; Nor once her flying foot approach’d the ground. Then taking wing from Athos’ lofty steep, She speeds to Lemnos o’er the rolling deep, And seeks t...

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...y the waters of eddying Apidanus; he dwelt at Peiresiae near the Phylleian mount, where mighty Apidanus and bright Enipeus join their streams, com in... ... of Pherae rich in sheep, stay behind beneath the peak of the Chalcodonian mount. (ll. 51 56) Nor at Alope stayed the sons of Hermes, rich in corn la... ... flame as it gleamed on every side from the sacrifice, and the smoke of it mount ing up with good omen in dark spiral columns; and quickly he spake o... ...d the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky; and how the mountains rose, and how the resounding rivers with their nymphs came into b... ... and the heroes themselves wielding the oars. And there came down from the mountain top to the sea Chiron, son of Philyra, and where the white surf br... ...ng all night with the wind. And at dawn before them as they journeyed rose Athos, the Thracian moun *i.e. The Starting. The Argonautica 24 tain, whi...

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...o the crag, that Hermes loves, Of Lemnos; thence unto the steep sublime Of Athos, throne of Zeus, the broad blaze flared. Thence, raised aloft to shoo... ... hest of flame Swift shot the light, above Gorgopis’ bay, To Aegiplanctus’ mount, and bade the peak Fail not the onward ordinance of fire. And like a ... ... shimmers the Saronic bay, And thence leapt light unto Arachne’s peak, The mountain watch that looks upon our town. Thence to th’ Atreides’ roof in li... ...— No dumb surmise, nor tongue of flame in smoke, Fitfully kindled from the mountain pyre; But plainlier shall his voice say, All is well, Or but away,...

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...ce Through the most Gothic gentlemen of Spain; A better cavalier ne’er mounted horse, Or, being mounted, e’er got down again, Than Jose, w... ... was like th’ aerial bow, Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, Mounting at times to a transparent glow, As if her veins ran lightnin... ... to our story: ‘T was in November, when fine days are few, And the far mountains wax a little hoary, And clap a white cape on their mantles bl... ...ans, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer, Who kill’d himself for love (with wi... ...am and roll, with strange convulsions rack’d, Drinking salt water like a mountain stream, Tearing, and grinning, howling, screeching, swearing, ... ...And hew out a huge monument of pathos, As Philip’s son proposed to do with Athos. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Twelve” 266 Here the twelfth Canto o...

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... _125 And where the burning wheels Eddied above the mountain’s loftiest peak Was traced a line of lightning. Now far above a ro... ... _195 Over the sinking sphere: Thou must have marked the billowy mountain clouds, Edged with intolerable radiancy, T owering like rocks of j... ...orning rise, Whilst still no land to greet the wanderer spread Its shadowy mountains on the sunbright sea, Where the loud roarings of the tempest-wave... ...5 The Daemon called its winged ministers. Speechless with bliss the Spirit mounts the car, That rolled beside the crystal battlement, Bending her beam... ... _140 And Persia, and the wild Carmanian waste, And o’er the aerial mountains which pour down Indus and Oxus from their icy caves, In joy and e... ...icken breezes kissed With their cold lips, fled, and the summit shone Like Athos seen from Samothracia, dressed In earliest light, by vintagers, and o... ...to the anathema, his Holiness might as well have thrown his mitre at Mount Athos for any effect that it pro- duced. The chiefs of the Greeks are almos...

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...........................14 THE BEAR AND THE FOX ......................................14 THE SWALLOW AND THE CROW .............................14 THE MOUNTAIN IN LABOR ...................................14 THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION .......................15 THE TORTOISE AND THE EAGLE ...........................15 THE FLIES AND THE HONEY-POT ..........................1...

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...winter.” Fair weather friends are not worth much. THE M OUNTAIN IN L ABOR A MOUNTAIN was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard, an... ...ied her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the mome... ...rried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear. He entreated his ... ... out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains. The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him... ... to his standard, the Soldier put on his charger its military trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail. The Horse fell down straig... ...ng out his instructions he found a MS. at the convent of St. Laura, on Mount Athos, which proved to be a copy of the long sus pected and wished for c...

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...istory, no History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by un- k... ...Chancery suitors; but rather the gravity as of some silent, high-encircled mountain-pool, perhaps the crater of an extinct volcano; into whose black d... ...r all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,—to the length of sixpence.—Clothes too, which began i... ...g. Nevertheless he can use Tools; can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; he kneads glowing iron, as if it... ... Dream; and without such Sheet or Mantle, would sink to endless depths, or mount to inane limbos, and in either case be no more.” By what chains, or i... ... intervals) a not-inconsider- able resemblance to that Superstition of the Athos Monks, who by fasting from all nourishment, and looking intensely for...

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...The next morning when I came on deck I found a new world indeed. The wind was fair; the sun mounted into a cloudless heaven; through great dark blue s... ... before him into the distance, and shows him the far-off spires of some city, or a range of mountain-tops, or a rim of sea, perhaps, along a low horiz... ...r I had crossed the little zone of mist, the path began to remount the hill; and just as I, mounting along with it, had got back again, from the head ... ... me only for a moment as I followed the footpath. Wendover lay well down in the midst, with mountains of foliage about it. The great plain stretched a... .... There was a wonderful sentiment of distance and atmosphere about the day and the place. I mounted the hill yet farther by a rough staircase of chalk... ...rob- able that in its noble natural condition this was the very wine of Anjou so beloved by Athos in the ‘Musketeers.’ Now, if the reader has ever was...

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... large disheveled trees, a stretch of meadow in the background, and jagged mountains on the horizon. Lisa looked over his shoulders at his work. “In d... ...THE MORNING AFTER the day we have described, at ten o’clock, Lavretsky was mounting the steps of the Kalitins’ house. He was met by Lisa coming out in... ...aching carriage, the long ditches, over- grown with mugwort, wormwood, and mountain ash; and as he watched the fresh fertile wilderness and solitude o... ...r your great-grandfather had, I do assure you, a magic amulet; a monk from Mount Athos made him a present of this amulet. And he told him, this monk d... ... great-grandfather had, I do assure you, a magic amulet; a monk from Mount Athos made him a present of this amulet. And he told him, this monk did, “I... ...ecious, mysterious, and holy on earth. It breathed of deathless sorrow and mounted dying away to the heavens. Lavretsky drew himself up, and rose cold...

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... rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea. We have followed you, Sir Insolence! for your ... ...r shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains—for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of t... ...his earth: mightiest were they , and when they fought the fiercest tribes of mountain savages they utterly overthrew them. I came from distant Pylos, ... ...turning home in their ships. As when some great forest fire is raging upon a mountain top and its light is seen afar, even so as they marched the glea... ...ith him there came ninety ships. And those that held Arcadia, under the high mountain of Cyllene, near the tomb of Æpytus, where the people fight hand... ...opmost crests she sped without ever setting foot to ground. When she came to Athos she went on over the, waves of the The Iliad – Book XIV 216 sea t...

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...hia, the nurse of men; seeing there lieth between us long space of shadowy mountains and sounding sea; but thee, thou shameless one, followed we hithe... ...hey were and with the mighti est fought they, even the wild tribes of the Mountain caves, and destroyed them utterly. And with these held I converse,... ...gat not her son’s charge, but rose up from the sea wave, and at early morn mounted up to great heaven and Olympus. There found she Kronos’ son of the ... ...r dear native land. Even as ravaging fire kindleth a boundless forest on a mountain’s peaks, and the blaze is seen from afar, even so as they marched ... ... ninety hollow ships. And of them that possessed Arkadia beneath the steep mountain of Kyllene, beside the tomb of Aipytos, where are warriors that fi... ...ven over the topmost crests, nor grazed the ground with her feet, and from Athos she fared across the foaming sea, and came to Lemnos, the city of god...

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...tile and pottery, grow (as it had ages since) to a height equal to that of Mount Gurson,—[In Perigord.]—and thrice the width of it, appeared to show a... ...rum Romanum’, of which the fall seems quite recent, like that of some huge mountain split into horrible crags, it does not look as if more than two su... ... raised by artificial accu- mulation to a height with the other hills, and Mount Savello has, in truth, grown simply out of the ruins of the theatre o... ... the loss of their money? Xerxes whipped the sea, and wrote a challenge to Mount Athos; Cyrus employed a whole army several days at work, to revenge h... ...oss of their money? Xerxes whipped the sea, and wrote a challenge to Mount Athos; Cyrus employed a whole army several days at work, to revenge himself... ...dered himself to the Duke of Alva) earnestly entreated that he might first mount the scaffold, to the end that death might disengage him from the obli...

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...owever, some- thing had caused me to forget; and when next I saw the young mountaineer, I forgot that I had forgotten it. Consequently, at first I was... ... those countries, and in the neighborhood of a river-system so awful, of a mountain-system so unheard-of in Europe, there would probably, by blind, un... ...Lord Oranmore, distin- guished for his horsemanship, and always splendidly mounted from his father’s stables at Castle M’Garret, to whom our stormy co... ...cts for contemplation: one, bright as Aurora—that radi- ant Koh-i-noor, or mountain of light—the eight hundred thousand pounds; the other, sad, fuscou... ...very judiciously re- peated to him the Lord’s Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount, by both of which the Khan was profoundly affected, and often recurre... ... and ultimately took refuge in great numbers amongst the convents on Mount Athos, which also were driven into re- volt by the severity of the Pacha. H...

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...fortunes at home. Having bad weather in his journey, and traveling through mountainous countries, and the inhabitants stop- ping the way, and demandin... ...by Sylla, finding Julius unassail- able, sat down short at the foot of the mountains in perplex- ity. But a certain Calpurnius, surnamed Lanarius, hav... ...ompeting incessantly with the swift attacks and retreats of a set of fleet mountaineers, or to endure hunger and thirst, and live exposed like them to... ...ose who were the strongest and swiftest of foot, and sent them through the mountains, with order that when they had delivered the water, they should c... ...aecias, pre- vailing most in those parts, coming up out of moist plains or mountains covered with snow, at this particular time, in the heat of summer... ...ad met before, he had told him, that of all the mountains he knew, that of Athos in Thrace was the most capable of being adapted to represent the shap...

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...n hills.’ ‘No, it is hard on Hampshire downs to compare them to Cumberland mountains.’ ‘But it is so sunny and beautiful,’ said the bright young bride... ...thing wanting but that that hill should be Helvellyn.’ ‘You should see the mountain convents in Albania,’ said John; and she was soon charmed with his... ...instance of that lady, who, whatever hobby her friends were riding, always mounted behind. Luncheon was half over, when the young pair came in, flushe... ...hing and encouraging. ‘Fools’ paradise!’ thought Theodora, as she silently mounted the steps. ‘That is a remarkably pretty little hat,’ said Miss Gard... ...y. Let them be freely partaken, we shall be first still. The masses cannot mount higher without raising us.’ ‘A levelling theory,’ said Mrs. Nesbit. ‘... ...! he has begun on the old monk we found refresh- ing the pictures at Mount Athos! Ay, talk yourself, ’tis the only way to stop her mouth; only mind wh...

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...s way and that th’ impatient captives tend, And, pressing for release, the mountains rend. High in his hall th’ undaunted monarch stands, And shakes h... ...heir fury to those dark abodes, And lock’d ‘em safe within, oppress’d with mountain loads; Impos’d a king, with arbitrary sway, T o loose their fetter... ...Dispose of empire, which I hold from you.” He said, and hurl’d against the mountain side His quiv’ring spear, and all the god applied. The raging wind... ...long the ground; Then, settling on the sea, the surges sweep, Raise liquid mountains, and disclose the deep. South, East, and West with mix’d confusio... ..., And rent the sheets; the raging billows rise, The Aeneid Virgil 6 And mount the tossing vessels to the skies: Nor can the shiv’ring oars sustain ... ...g in his force His jointed armor rattles in the course. Like Eryx, or like Athos, great he shows, Or Father Apennine, when, white with snows, His head...

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...he voice of prayer. In early spring tide, when the icy drip Melts from the mountains hoar, and Zephyr’s breath Unbinds the crumbling clod, even then... ...he system of the Signs. And as toward Scythia and Rhipaean heights The world mounts upward, likewise sinks it down T oward Libya and the south, this p... ...e, and on Ossa to up roll amain Leafy Olympus; thrice with thunderbolt Their mountain stair the Sire asunder smote. Seventh after tenth is lucky both ... ...ortal hearts of every kindred sunk In cowering terror; he with flaming brand Athos, or Rhodope, or Ceraunian crags Precipitates: then doubly raves the... ... are mellowest then; Then sleep is sweet, and dark the shadows fall Upon the mountains. Let your rustic youth T o Ceres do obeisance, one and all; And... ...morants on dry land Besport them, and the hern, her marshy haunts Forsaking, mounts above the soaring cloud. Oft, too, when wind is toward, the stars ...

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...heism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth. Alyosha would hav... ...d in our monasteries, though in the orthodox East, especially in Sinai and Athos, it has existed over a thousand years. It is maintained that it exist... ...e is a recent instance. A monk was suddenly commanded by his elder to quit Athos, which he loved as a sacred place and a haven of refuge, and to go fi... ...Don’ t suppose, holy father, that I mean any harm. But do you know that at Athos not only the visits of women are not allowed, but no creature of the ... ...ed and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that him- self, yet he will be the firs... ...v impatiently, crossing and recrossing his legs. “Oh, well, we have no mountains,” cried Father Iosif, and turning to the elder he continued: “Obs... ...pon something quite unexpected. Over the hurdle in the garden, Dmitri, mounted on some- thing, was leaning forward, gesticulating violently, becko... ...in the Scripture that if you have faith, even as a mustard seed, and bid a mountain move into the sea, it will move without the least delay at your bi...

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...; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. En...

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...g iron skerries, pitiless breakers, and great sea-lights; much of heathery mountains, wild clans, and hunted Covenanters. Breaths come to him in song ... ... began to think it had been dropped at press; and when at last I found it, mounted on the shoulders of so many succes- sors, and looking in that postu... ...s of rail, and the scream of the engine and the shock of meet- ing buffers mount to it all day long. The aisles are lined with the inclosed sepulchres... ...laces. So may some cadet of Royal Ecossais or the Albany Regi- ment, as he mounted guard about French citadels, so may some officer marching his compa... ... landscape. Sail- ors and shepherds, and the people generally of coast and mountain, talk well of it; and it is often excitingly presented in literatu... ...i! Bien heureux.” I am reminded of it, as I say; and the next moment, when Athos dies of his death, and my dear d’Artagnan bursts into his storm of so... ... the main joys of its perusal, and sets it high above more popular rivals. Athos, with the coming of years, has declined too much into the preacher, a...

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...able hymn is that to “Pan,” which describes how he roams hunting among the mountains and thickets and streams, how he makes music at dusk while return... ...re thus enumerated by Dr. T.W . Allen: — A Paris, Bibl. Nat. 2763. At Athos, Vatopedi 587. B Paris, Bibl. Nat. 2765. C Paris, Bibl. Nat. 28... ..., and bring home a plough-tree when you have found it, and look out on the mountain or in the field for one of holm- oak; for this is the strongest fo... ...afed oak and thick pine he falls and brings them to the bounteous earth in mountain glens: then all the immense wood roars and the beasts shudder and ... ...eno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot….’ ((LACUNA)) ‘In the mountains of Cyllene she (Maia) bare Hermes, the herald of the gods.’ Fragm... ...nd lived in Arcadia. She chose to occupy her- self with wild-beasts in the mountains together with Artemis, and, when she was seduced by Zeus, continu... ... for ships, in Aegae and Eiresiae and Peparethus near the sea, in Thracian Athos and Pelion’s towering heights and Thracian Samos and the shady hills ...

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...rend- ing away westward past the tower loses itself at the foot of the far mountains. It is evening; and there are great breadths of silken green in t... ... Jerusalem I came back to Patmos, and spent six months at the monastery of Mount Athos. From that I came to Ireland and settled down as a parish pries... ...alem I came back to Patmos, and spent six months at the monastery of Mount Athos. From that I came to Ireland and settled down as a parish priest unti... ... and most orderly place I know in Ire- land, which is our poetically named Mountjoy prison. Well, perhaps I had better vote for an efficient devil tha...

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... a History, no History seems to be discoverable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by unk... ...n Chancery suitors; but rather the gravity as of some silent, high encircled mountain pool, perhaps the crater of an extinct volcano; into whose black... ...ver all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,—to the length of sixpence.—Clothes too, which began... ...rag. Nevertheless he can use Tools; can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; he kneads glowing iron, as if ... ...’s Dream; and without such Sheet or Mantle, would sink to endless depths, or mount to inane limbos, and in either case be no more.” By what chains, or... ...s at intervals) a not inconsiderable resemblance to that Superstition of the Athos Monks, who by fasting from all nourishment, and looking intensely f...

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...ell- bred to pretend to remark his emotion. The sun was setting behind the mountains as our songs were finished, and each began to look out with some ... ...he Place V endome, and stopping at the Marquis’s door. A crowd appeared to mount the stair; the great doors of the reception-room were flung open, and... ...f November, which are only known in the valleys of Languedoc and among the mountains of Alsace, that two cavaliers might have been per- ceived by the ... ... naked eye threading one of the rocky and ro- mantic gorges that skirt the mountain-land between the Marne and the Garonne. The rosy tints of the decl... ...s of shepherds, calling in their flocks as they trooped homewards to their mountain villages, sent up plaintive echoes 40 Thackeray which moaned thro... ...r than Rotherwood, which was as dull as if it had been at the top of Mount Athos. The only person who visited it was Athelstane. “His Royal Highness t...

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...s over. The Tartars took the saddle and trappings. The red bearded Tartar mounted his horse, and the others lifted Zhílin into the saddle behind him.... ... the hills, in the blue distance, were forests, and still further off were mountains, rising higher and higher. The highest of them were covered with ... ...ne with him and Kostílin. Some said they ought to be sent farther into the mountains; but the old man said: ‘They must be killed!’ Abdul disputed with... ...trength and set off down the hill, saying to himself: ‘God forbid that any mounted Tartar should see me now, in the open field! Near as I am, I could ... ...hered, and the wind had risen. Iván went down the steps, helped his boy to mount, started the foal after him, and stood listening while Tarás rode dow... ... hair and a skull cap such as priests wear. This pilgrim had been to Mount Athos, and was now going to Jerusalem for the second time. They both stoppe...

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...heism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth. Alyosha would hav... ...d in our monasteries, though in the orthodox East, especially in Sinai and Athos, it has existed over a thousand years. It is maintained that it exist... ...e is a recent instance. A monk was suddenly commanded by his elder to quit Athos, which he loved as a sacred place and a haven of refuge, and to go fi... ...Don’ t suppose, holy father, that I mean any harm. But do you know that at Athos not only the visits of women are not allowed, but no creature of the ... ...ed and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that him- self, yet he will be the firs... ...v impatiently, crossing and recrossing his legs. “Oh, well, we have no mountains,” cried Father Iosif, and turning to the elder he continued: “Obs... ...pon something quite unexpected. Over the hurdle in the garden, Dmitri, mounted on some- thing, was leaning forward, gesticulating violently, becko... ...in the Scripture that if you have faith, even as a mustard seed, and bid a mountain move into the sea, it will move without the least delay at your bi... ...hurch, but only an opinion, and that even in the most Orthodox regions, at Athos for instance, they were not greatly confounded by the smell of corrup...

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...Hebrew cosmogony, when, from the caprice of a fleshly god, in one hour man mounted to a justice that knew no shadow of change; from cruelty, mounted t... ... infidel, in triumph. A boy may fire his pistol unnoticed; but a sentinel, mounting guard in the dark, must remember the trepidation that will follow ... ...works of Versailles cleave the air, and rising as sweet to the lip as ever mountain torrent that com- forted the hunted deer. It is impossible to supp... ...e wis- dom and the wit, the eloquence and the poetry of this earth, like a mountainous wave, and will finally overtake them— their very vehicles being... ... Naplous. In this direction, however, there was no want of men. Beyond the mountains cavalry only were in use: and the prisoners had no horses, nor ha... ...ibility exists, that in Armenia, or in a Graeco-Russian monastery on Mount Athos, or in Pompeii, &c., some authors hitherto [Greek text] may yet be co...