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Page 10 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 96 - I have just left, it forms this lake. There are great indications of this being the terrestrial paradise, for its site coincides with the opinion of the holy and wise theologians whom I have mentioned; and moreover, the other evidences agree with the supposition, for I have never either read or heard of fresh water coming in so large a quantity in close conjunction with the water of the sea; the idea is also corroborated by the blandness of the temperature; and if the water of which I speak does...
Page 138 - He that has and a little tiny wit, — With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, — Must make content with his fortunes fit, For the rain it raineth every day.
Page 65 - And ofttimes cometh our wise Lord God, master of every trade, And tells them tales of His daily toil, of Edens newly made ; And they rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid.
Page 98 - ... yet when we once come in sight of the port of death, to which all winds drive us, and when by letting fall that fatal anchor, which can never be weighed again, the navigation of this life takes end; then it is, I say, that our own cogitations (those sad and severe cogitations, formerly beaten from us by our health and felicity) return again, and pay us to the uttermost for all the pleasing passages of our lives past.
Page 64 - BARRACK ROOM BALLADS" JJEYOND the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled — Farther than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust swirled — Live such as fought and sailed and ruled and loved and made our world. They are purged of pride because they died, they know the worth of their bays; They sit at wine with the Maidens Nine and the Gods of the Elder Days — It is their will to serve or be still as fitteth Our Father's praise.
Page 289 - A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun.
Page 234 - ... or any other fear; that would indeed be strange, and I might justly be arraigned in court for denying the existence of the gods, if I disobeyed the oracle because I was afraid of death: then I should be fancying that I was wise when I was not wise.
Page 97 - divers very rich countries,' he says, ' both civil and others, . . . where there is to be found great abundance of gold, silver, precious stones, cloth of gold, silks, all manner of spices, grocery wares, and other kinds of merchandise of an inestimable price, which both the Spaniard and Portugal, through the length of their journeys, cannot well attain unto.
Page 96 - ... theologians whom I have mentioned ; and, moreover, the other evidences agree with the supposition, for I have never either read or heard of fresh water coming in so large a quantity, in close conjunction with the water of the sea ; the idea is also corroborated by the blandness of the temperature...