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...nting them out, severally, with a wand. There was a cen tre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pi geon hole, out of which another ... ...sities, ancient frames of carved wood, old chairs, ghostly tables, saints, virgins, angels, and staring daubs of portraits, being exposed for sale ben... ...gs sticking out behind them on the floor, like boot trees. Above whom, the Virgin, on a kind of blue divan, promised to restore the patient. In anothe... ... reverie. I am conscious of a feverish and bewildered vision of saints and virgins’ shrines at the street corners—of great numbers of friars, monks, a... ... out for a holiday. Not long ago, there was a festa day, in honour of the Virgin ’s Mother, when the young men of the neighbourhood, having worn gree... ...where. For mere force of wind, this land storm might have competed with an Atlantic gale, and had a reasonable chance of coming off victorious. The bl...

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...fair hands, And why and wherefore no one understands. ‘T is pity learned virgins ever wed With persons of no sort of education, Or gentlemen... ...ruly great, And almost might have made a Tarquin quake: She pray’d the Virgin Mary for her grace, As being the best judge of a lady’s case. ... ...to his mother, And look’d extremely at the opening door, Which, by the Virgin’s grace, let in another; Grateful she was, and yet a little sore... ... can be no other, ‘T is surely Juan now — No! I ‘m afraid That night the Virgin was no further pray’d. She now determined that a virtuous woman ... ...ement of the Vandals, First vow’d (and never had she vow’d in vain) To Virgin Mary several pounds of candles; And then, by the advice of some ... ...or Gray Highlands, That bring Lochaber back to eyes that roam O’er far Atlantic continents or islands, The calentures of music which o’ercome ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 81 The Pequod meets the Virgin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 82 The Honor and Glory o... ...ing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he, Flounders round the Polar Sea.” Char... ...ght he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleganian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, thi... ... be answered. Yes; all these brave houses and flowery gardens came from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. One and all, they were harpooned and d... ...Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipma... ... the watery world like so many Alexan ders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland.... ...tly; receiving all nature’s sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin, voluntary, and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some h... ...ed waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines and muskets would... ...ds and men — both brawlers! Humph! Belfast sailor. A row! arrah a row! The Virgin be blessed, a row! Plunge in with ye! English sailor. Fair play! Sna...

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...ng. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he, Flounders round the Polar Sea.” —Ch... ...ht he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, thi... ...l these brave houses and flowery gardens came from 43 Herman Melville the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. One and all, they were harpooned and ... ...Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipma... ...ed the watery world like so many Alexanders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland... ...tly; receiving all nature’s sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some h... ...ed waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines and muskets would... ...Gods and men—both brawlers! Humph! Belfast sailor. A row! arrah a row! The Virgin be blessed, a row! Plunge in with ye! 175 Herman Melville English S... ...iness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia’s Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, ...

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...to send to Crete every nine years a tribute of seven young men and as many virgins, as most writers agree in stating; and the most poeti- cal story ad... ...nicus, however, tells us that the Athenians did not send the young men and virgins by lot, but that Minos himself used to come and make his own choice... ... day of Munychion, on which day even to this time the Athenians send their virgins to the same temple to make supplication to the gods. It is farther ... ...n first instituted by Theseus. For he took not with him the full number of virgins which by lot were to be carried away, but selected two youths of hi... ...taught them farther to counterfeit the very voice and carriage and gait of virgins, so that there could not be the least difference perceived; he, und... ...ned of all the priests; from whom, as Plato says, getting knowledge of the Atlantic story, he put it into a poem, and proposed to bring it to the know... ...Solon, having begun the great work in verse, the his- tory or fable of the Atlantic Island, which he had learned from the wise men in Sais, and though... ... men’s delights, are also mine. Plato, willing to improve the story of the Atlantic Island, as if it were a fair estate that wanted an heir and came w... ... so Plato, amongst all his excellent works, left this only piece about the Atlantic Island imperfect. Solon lived after Pisistratus seized the governm...

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...h figure for the stern lanterns. There is a roll in the ground, and the towers just appear above the pitch of the roof, as though the good ship were b... ... each with a lighted taper in her hand, and all dressed in black with a white veil, came from behind the altar, and began to de- scend the nave; the f... ...wandering looks about the congregation while they feign to be at prayer? why this fat nun, who rudely arranges her procession and shakes 71 The Inlan... ...ertisement, by a brief of Pope Gregory Six- teenth, on the 17th of January 1832: according to a coloured bas-relief, it seems to have been founded, so...

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... And Wisdom travels not in vain The plunging spaces of the poles. The wild Atlantic’s weltering gloom, Earth-clasping seas of North and South, The Bal... ...ve happy birth, Ere yet the northern sun such rapture brings, Lo, from her virgin breast the Snowdrop springs; And ere the snows have melted from the ... ...hat Thessalian lily, Fairest T empe’s fairest flower, Lo, the tall Peneian virgin Stands beneath her bathing bower. There the laurell’ d wreaths o’era... ...osy blood up-gushing Overflows her ripe young cheeks. Blushing, sweet with virgin blushes, All her loveliness a-flame, Stands she in the orient waters... ...ut, O Dian! veil not wholly Thy pale crescent from the morn! Vanish not, O virgin goddess, With that look of pallid scorn! Still thy pure protecting i... ...as vanished, And the bright sun thrones the skies! V oicelessly the forest Virgin Vanished! but one look she gave – Keen as Niobean arrow Thro’ the ma...

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...e gun-fire. It is the very image of an enormous lion, crouched between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its ... ...liged to burn her, lest the Moors should take possession of her. She was a virgin vessel, just out of Brest. Poor innocent! to die in the very first ... ... in their little box of wood and iron, across Channel, Biscay Bay, and the Atlantic, from Southampton Water to Gibraltar Straits. CHAPTER IV: GIBRALTA... ...rous and audacious than the noblest knight who ever sang a canticle to the Virgin, these halls were filled by magnificent Pashas and Agas, who lived h... ...overset them; And they call in their emer- gence Upon countless saints and virgins; And their marrow- bones are bended, And they think the world is en... ... book; and, on the wall of the principal apartment, a black picture of the Virgin, whose name is borne by pretty Mariam. The camels and the soldiers, ... ...ice overlooking the sea, with clean mats, and pictures of the Emperor, the Virgin, and St. George, re- ceived the strangers with smiling courtesies, ...

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...preter. To complete the picture, the same word signifies the watching of a virgin and the warding of a chief; and the same word means to cherish a chi... ...ach ere they arrive; the guest- house is prepared for their reception; the virgins of the vil- lage attend to prepare the kava bowl and entertain them... ...utuila was shot down (as I was told in that island) while carrying off the virgin of a village; and tales of cannibalism run round the country, and th... ...ion. Seas that might have awakened surprise and terror in the midst of the Atlantic ranged bodily and (it seemed to observers) almost without diminuti...

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...en) Kneeling at prayers; or watchman on the top 365 Of lighthouse, beaten by Atlantic waves; Or as the soul of that great Power is met Sometimes embod... ... there are on earth to take in charge Their wives, their children, and their virgin loves, Or whatsoever else the heart holds dear; 155 Enow to stir f... ...rs, mountains, headlands, and ye hollow vales, Ye long deep channels for the Atlantic’s voice, Powers of my native region! Ye that seize The heart wit... ...everence to the gods, ’Mid temples, served by sapient priests, and choirs Of virgins crowned with roses. Not in vain 465 Those temples, where they in ... ...rs stretched, 45 In headlands, tongues, and promontory shapes, Into the main Atlantic, that appeared To dwindle, and give up his majesty, Usurped upon...

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... it among their earliest practical necessi ties to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In ... ...ed as hopeless, the effort 85 Hawthorne to perpetuate on this side of the Atlantic, in a hard soil, and amid the close struggle for subsistence, the ... ...ear, partook of the religious zeal that brought other emigrants across the Atlantic. In their re 95 Hawthorne searches into the human frame, it may ... ... love. In their eyes, the very ground on which he trod was sanctified. The virgins of his church grew pale around him, victims of a passion so imbued ... ...ould come the elders and deacons of Mr. Dimmesdale’s church, and the young virgins who so idolized their minister, and had made a shrine for him in th... ... soon, and bear black fruit betimes. Such was his sense of power over this virgin soul, trusting him as she did, that the minister felt potent to blig...

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...me.” But Melissa had already risen clear, and was heading for a breadth of virgin white clover, which to an overtired bee is as soothing as plain knit... ...loud-bank beneath us is streaked. with running fissures of flame where the Atlantic boats are hurrying Londonward just clear of the fluff. Mail-packet... ...ipping our beam to an incoming Washington packet. There is no cloud on the Atlantic, and faint streaks of cream round Dingle Bay show where the driven... ...“But I can make St. John’s if you’ll stand by.” “You’ll make the deep, wet Atlantic in twenty minutes. You’re less than fifty-eight hundred now. Get y... ...n her; slides like a lost soul down that pitiless ladder of light, and the Atlantic takes her. “A filthy business,” says Hodgson. “I wonder what it mu... ...bacco, begin both on a sunny morn- ing half a mile or so above the dappled Atlantic cloud-belts and after a volt-flurry which has cleared and tempered... ...le, and they threw up their heads and bayed at the sun; women, mothers and virgins, shrilled shriek upon mounting shriek, and slapped 165 Kipling the...

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...ears her matron grace, Kindling a flush on the fair cheek of Spring, Whose virgin bloom beneath the ruddy fruit Reflects its tint and blushes into lov... ... _60 Strangers have wept to hear his passionate notes, And virgins, as unknown he passed, have pined And wasted for fond love of his w... ...7 37. ‘These were forebodings of my fate—before A woman’s heart beat in my virgin breast, It had been nurtured in divinest lore: A dying poet gave me ... ...les before her look, though it be strong; Thousands thus dwell beside her, virgins bright, And matrons with their babes, a stately throng! _... ... base of that great Altar flow, As on some mountain-islet burst and shiver Atlantic waves; and solemnly and slow As the wind bore that tumult to and f... ...wild and lost; Some, that I scarce had risen from the grave, The Prophet’s virgin bride, a heavenly ghost:— Some said, I was a fiend from my weird cav... ..., as lifted Ocean’s dazzling spray, _30 From some Atlantic islet scattered up, Spangles the wind with lamp-like water-drops. ... ... Against the escape of boldest thoughts, repels them _775 As Calpe the Atlantic clouds—this Whole Of suns, and worlds, and men, and beasts, and fl... ...es?] Of atheist priests! … And thou Fair star, whose beam lies on the wide Atlantic, Athwart its zones of tempest and of calm, ...

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...nd pointed at the waistcoat. Mr. Fenellan was compassionate over the ‘Poor virgin of the smoky city!’ ‘They have their ready-made at these shops—last ... ...f themes it plucked for delivery carried her flowing over im- pediments of virginal self-consciousness, to set her at her ease in the talk with men; s... ...o hang on any dream; and had moreover a muffled dread-shadow-sister to the virginal desire—of this one, as of a fateful power that might drag her down... ...r for grave debate in the Radnor family. The Duvidney ladies, Dorothea and Virginia, would have cited ancestral names, showing it to be the worst of i... ...c; though it is to be feared, that our part in it will not encourage a Cis-Atlantic bard. T o America the honours from beginning to end belong. So, th... ...personally fail? Fredi stays at Moorsedge for a month or two. Dorothea and Virginia Duvidney will give her a taste of a new society; good for the girl... ...have come.’ The voice was articu- late, thinner than the telephonic, trans-Atlantic by deep-sea cable. Victor answered: ‘We have.’ Another minute must...

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...public honours, withdrew himself entirely into the converse of the learned virgins where he intends to spend the remaining moiety of the to allotted t... ...veral degrees of interest every one had in the death of this fair innocent virgin, and having, in the other figures, laid out the utmost power of his ... ...m in that posture, and would steal aside to make water as religiously as a virgin, shy to discover to his physician or any other whomsoever those part... ...ous. Amasis, King of Egypt, having married Laodice, a very beautiful Greek virgin, though noted for his abilities else- where, found himself quite ano... ...one speaks to the king but through a tube. In one and the same nation, the virgins discover those parts that modesty should persuade them to hide, and... ... D.W .]. He there tells us, that certain Carthaginians, having crossed the Atlantic Sea without the Straits of Gibraltar, and sailed a very long time,...

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...Regained To verifie that solemn message late, On which I sent thee to the Virgin pure In Galilee, that she should bear a Son 135 Great in Renow... ... Son of God; Then toldst her doubting how these things could be To her a Virgin, that on her should come The Holy Ghost, and the power of the hi... ... Sons of men, A messenger from God fore-told thy birth Conceiv’d in me a Virgin, he fore-told Thou shouldst be great and sit on David’s Throne,... ...ful and discreet, Expert in amorous Arts, enchanting tongues Perswasive, Virgin majesty with mild And sweet allay’d, yet terrible to approach, ... ...ll Thir sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts On Cittron tables or Atlantic stone; 115 (For I have also heard, perhaps have read) Their w... ...To whom the Fiend now swoln with rage reply’d: Then hear, O Son of David, Virgin-born; 500 For Son of God to me is yet in doubt, Of the Messiah ...

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...sa, the Apostles or the Caesars. The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memori... ...e communication, like furred animals, or folk born deaf, or the dwellers of some alien planet. To cross the Channel is, for a boy of twelve, to change... ... I would sometimes wonder where he found his cheer- fulness. He had enough to sober him, I thought, in his offi- cial budget. His expenses—for he was ... ...the climbing forest, and breaks down shoreward in steep taluses and cliffs. From the edge of one of the highest, perhaps seven hundred or a thousand f... ...him without remission, although still in vain; and the palms, accessories to the fact, were ruthlessly cut down. Such was the ideal of wifely purity i...

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...nded a little above the mouth of the river Baetis, where it falls into the Atlantic sea, and gives the name to that part of Spain. Here he met with se... ...e to that part of Spain. Here he met with seamen recently arrived from the Atlantic islands, two in number, divided from one another only by a narrow ... ...atium in Rome, who at present, when he is driven out to the borders of the Atlantic sea, sets bounds to our kingdoms in the east, and threatens us wit... ...in the shape of a griffin, or tragelaphus, on which the children and young virgins are carried in proces- sions. Xenophon has not left us the name of ... ...n that advanced his victories to the ocean; and again in Spain he made the Atlantic Sea the limit of the empire; and then thirdly, in his late pursuit... ...unbecoming. So that they seemed rather lodged in some temple, or some holy virgin chambers, where they enjoyed their privacy sacred and uninterrupted,... ...forever. What is there in all Rome so sacred and vener- able as the vestal virgins, to whose care alone the preserva- 447 Plutarch’s Lives tion of th... ...iline, who was accused, besides other great offenses, of deflower- ing his virgin daughter, and killing his own brother; for which latter crime, feari... ...onsul’s house, either by his wife or mother, in the presence of the vestal virgins. And having got into his friend’s house privately, a few only being...

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...former seemed insincere (a favorite word of hers at this era). The earnest virgins were, she fancied, as likely to do harm as to do good by their fait... ... may be prejudiced, but I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent p... ... coaxing to all persons over forty-five, Carol got them into a waltz and a Virginia Reel. But when she left them to disenjoy themselves in their own w... ... low hill corrugated with hard snow. In her loose nutria coat, seal toque, virginal cheeks unmarked by lines of vil- lage jealousies, she was as out o... ...these unpicturesque poor. VIII The spring of the plains is not a reluctant virgin but brazen and soon away. The mud roads of a few days ago are pow- d... ... Yankees who had come up the Mississippi to St. Paul and driven north over virgin prairie into virgin woods. They ground their own corn; the men-folks...

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... basely. You have gallants among you, I dare undertake, that have made the Virginia voyage, or taken a turn in the Low Countries at least. Come, cudge... ...erries; where the pantiles are made of pure gold, and the paving-stones of virgin silver.” “By my credit, friend Mike,” said young Laurence Goldthred,... ...ser lights, the withdrawing-room was il- luminated by four tall torches of virgin wax, each of which was placed in the grasp of a statue, representing... ...tone of the wars, and what remained I washed out in the broad waves of the Atlantic.” “Thou hast served, then, in the Indies?” “In both East and West,... ...mpliment, always couched in delicacy, and expressed with propriety, to the Virgin Queen, her court, and her gov- ernment. Thus passed the conversation... ...aget,” said the Queen, “you speak sacrilege against the immortal Nine—yet, virgins themselves, they should be exorable to a Virgin Queen—and therefore...