Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of the EneisMeinhold and Sons, 1853 - 586 pages |
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... applied to an inanimate object . I produced to him , the very next day , the word ' defensor ' applied by Cesar to piles sunk in a river in order to break the current . Instead of being pleased or convinced , he replied : " How happy ...
... applied to an inanimate object . I produced to him , the very next day , the word ' defensor ' applied by Cesar to piles sunk in a river in order to break the current . Instead of being pleased or convinced , he replied : " How happy ...
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... , and all the God applied . " * DRYDEN . " Zum hohlen Gebirg ' hinwendend die Spitze Schlug er die Seit ' . " - IMPULIT . " Contorsit . " GESNER . Voss . To all these interpretations there seem to me to be 24 I 85. ...
... , and all the God applied . " * DRYDEN . " Zum hohlen Gebirg ' hinwendend die Spitze Schlug er die Seit ' . " - IMPULIT . " Contorsit . " GESNER . Voss . To all these interpretations there seem to me to be 24 I 85. ...
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... applied to the sea , is properly neither the high sea ( i . e . the sea considered solely in respect of the height of its surface above its bottom ) , nor the deep sea ( i . e . the sea considered solely in reference to the depth of its ...
... applied to the sea , is properly neither the high sea ( i . e . the sea considered solely in respect of the height of its surface above its bottom ) , nor the deep sea ( i . e . the sea considered solely in reference to the depth of its ...
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... applied by seafaring men to express the safe state of the Syrtes , or that state in which they were covered by water of depth sufficient for vessels to sail in , that state in which the sailor might enter them , intraret . Compare ...
... applied by seafaring men to express the safe state of the Syrtes , or that state in which they were covered by water of depth sufficient for vessels to sail in , that state in which the sailor might enter them , intraret . Compare ...
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... applied to the sea itself , both in our own language and in Latin ; " Aperto mari navigare " ( PLIN . Hist . Nat . I. II . 46 ) . The poet , having stated the precise manner in which the God removed the other three ships from the rocks ...
... applied to the sea itself , both in our own language and in Latin ; " Aperto mari navigare " ( PLIN . Hist . Nat . I. II . 46 ) . The poet , having stated the precise manner in which the God removed the other three ships from the rocks ...
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Page 23 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers...
Page 22 - Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee. Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, — Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Page 82 - For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 23 - Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. And such she was; her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased.
Page 51 - So spake the enemy of mankind enclosed In serpent, inmate bad ! and toward Eve Addressed his way, not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds that towered Fold above fold, a surging maze...
Page 48 - Laocoon, Neptune's priest by lot that year, With solemn pomp then sacrificed a steer ; When (dreadful to behold !) from sea we spied Two serpents, ranked abreast, the seas divide, And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide. Their flaming crests above the waves they...
Page 52 - Is this the man? By him who died on cross, With his cruel bow he laid full low The harmless Albatross. • The spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.
Page 12 - Iamque domum mirans genetricis et umida regna speluncisque lacus clausos lucosque sonantes ibat, et ingenti motu stupefactus aquarum * 365 omnia sub magna labentia flumina terra spectabat diversa locis, Phasimque Lycumque et caput, unde altus primum se erumpit Enipeus, unde pater Tiberinus, et unde Aniena fluenta saxosusque sonans Hypanis Mysusque Caicus, 370 et gemina auratus taurino cornua vultu Eridanus, quo non alius per pinguia culta in mare purpureum violentior effluit amnis.
Page 99 - Hoc dicens , altaria ad ipsa trementem Traxit, et in multo lapsantem sanguine nati; Implicuitque comam laeva, dextraque coruscum Extulit ac lateri capulo tenus abdidit ensem. Haec finis Priami fatorum; hic exitus illum Sorte tulit, Trojam incensam et prolapsa videntem Pergama, tot quondam populis terrisque superbum Regnatorem Asiae. Jacet ingens littore truncus, Avulsumque humeris caput, et sine nomine corpus.
Page 30 - Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks, Bowed their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer.