Siren LandM. Secker, 1923 - 337 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 11 - Nigh the cursed shore, and listen to the lay. No more that wretch shall view the joys of life, His blooming offspring, or his beauteous wife ! In verdant meads they sport ; and wide around Lie human bones, that whiten all the ground : The ground polluted floats with human gore, And human carnage taints the dreadful shore.
الصفحة 45 - Oh stay, O pride of Greece! Ulysses, stay! Oh cease thy course, and listen to our lay ! Blest is the man ordain'd our voice to hear, The song instructs the soul, and charms the ear. Approach! thy soul shall into raptures rise! Approach! and learn new wisdom from the wise!
الصفحة 23 - And lo! the Siren shores like mists arise. Sunk were at once the winds; the air above, And waves below, at once forgot to move; Some demon calm'd the air and smooth'd the deep, Hush'd the loud winds, and charm'd the waves to sleep.
الصفحة 164 - We have a fish soup; guarracini and scorfani and aguglie and toteri and " Take breath, gentle maiden; the while I explain to the patient reader the ingredients of the diabolical preparation known as zuppa di pesce. The guarracino, for instance, is a pitch-black marine monstrosity, one to two inches long, a mere blot, with an Old Red Sandstone profile and insufferable manners,* whose sole recommendation is that its name is derived from korakinos (korax = a raven; but who can live on Greek roots?).
الصفحة 94 - ... and yet a paradise; where the world was dead, but the spirit of God moved on the waters. Passion was stilled here; love was silenced; the chastened solemnity, the purity of its mysterious divinity, had no affinity with the fevered dreams and sensuous sweetness of mortal desires. The warm poetic voluptuous light and...
الصفحة 310 - Here, too, an ancient world, our ancient world, lies spread out in rare charm of colour and outline, and every footstep is fraught with memories. The lovely islands of the Pacific have a past, but their past is not our past, and men who strike deep notes in such alien soil are like those who forsake their families and traditions to live among gipsies. Niagara will astound the senses, but the ruins of Campania wake up sublimer and more enduring emotions. No person of culture, however prosaic, will...
الصفحة 25 - It was an ancient opinion of the idolatrous Arabs, that the departing spirit flitted from man's brain-pan as a wandering fowl, complaining thenceforward in deadly thirst her unavenged wrong ; friends therefore to assuage the friend's soul-bird, poured upon the grave their pious libations of wine. The bird is called "a green fowl", it is named by others an owl or eagle.
الصفحة 94 - Passion was stilled here; love was silenced; the chastened solemnity, the purity of its mysterious divinity, had no affinity with the fevered dreams and sensuous sweetness of mortal desires. ...The boat paused in the midst of the still violet lake-like water. Where he lay at her feet he looked upwards at her through the ethereal light that floated round them, and seemed to sever them from earth.... Would to God I could die now!" This was the Blue Grotto of the last generation. "When I entered it...
الصفحة 74 - For myself, conscript fathers, I am a mortal man ; I am confined to the functions of human nature ; and if I well supply the principal place amongst you, it suffices me, I solemnly assure you ; and I would have posterity remember it.
الصفحة 78 - Agrippina he felt the deepest regret ; and upon meeting her afterwards, he looked after her with eyes so passionately expressive of affection, that care was taken she. should never again come in his sight.