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...eople like Sese Seko, Hussein, and Marcos drooled over money. The ever-heightening mountains of greenbacks in their vaults soothed them, filled the... ...cracies (recall the Russian oligarchs), authoritarian regimes (Central Asia and the Caucasus), or Vichy-like heterarchies (Macedonia, Bosnia, and Ir... ...nd to a lesser extent, Turkish) designs in the tremulously tectonic regions of the Caucasus, oil-rich and China-bordering Central Asia, and the Mi...

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...eople like Sese Seko, Hussein, and Marcos drooled over money. The ever-heightening mountains of greenbacks in their vaults soothed them, filled the... ...cracies (recall the Russian oligarchs), authoritarian regimes (Central Asia and the Caucasus), or Vichy-like heterarchies (Macedonia, Bosnia, and Ir... ...nd to a lesser extent, Turkish) designs in the tremulously tectonic regions of the Caucasus, oil-rich and China-bordering Central Asia, and the Mi...

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... 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 ... ... things therein moove without intermission; yea, the earth, the rockes of Caucasus, and the Pyramides of Ægypt, both with the publike and their own ... ...quired of the first what he could doe; he to endeare him selfe, answered, mountains and wonders, and what not? For he knew and could doe all things....

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...at he was ready to serve Hadji Murad for the honor alone. Every one in the mountains knew Hadji Murad, and how he slew the Russian swine. “Very wel... ...Panov. “It’s not the first time; he takes it and gives it back.” In the Caucasus in those days each company chose men to manage its own commissaria... ... Petersburg University whom Princess V orontsov had lately had sent to the Caucasus to be tutor to her little son (born of her first marriage). Agains... ...hat kind of a life was it? “He promised to free me when we return from the Caucasus, but where am I to with my freedom? … It’ s a dog’ s life!” though... ...d been in action—knew and could not help knowing that in those days in the Caucasus, and in fact anywhere and at any time, such hand-to-hand hacking a... ...honor!” Some vodka (or rather the spirit drunk by the sol- diers in the Caucasus) was found, and Panov , severely frowning, brought Avdeev a can-li... ... bore himself proudly and ceremoniously , saying that he had come from the mountains to serve the White Tsar and would give account only to his Sirdar... ... family are in the hands of my enemy , and that as long as they are in the mountains I am bound and cannot serve him. Shamil would kill my wife and my... ...Born in Tselmess, a small aoul, ‘the size of an ass’ s head,’ as we in the mountains say ,” he began. “not far from it, about two cannon-shots, lies K...

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...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... ...elow and the snowy seat of Olympus are complete; and to her, when from the mountains she ascends the mighty heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronos, g... ...eyes glared on him, like to a lion struck by a javelin when hunters in the mountains are hemming him round, and, though pressed by the throng, he reek... ...i next in order inhabit the well wooded mainland and the parts beneath the mountains, who have built in towers made from trees their wooden homes and ... ...ourne of the sea. And here at the Cytaean mainland and from the Amarantine mountains far away and the Circaean plain, eddying Phasis rolls his broad s... ...athless and sleepless, which Earth her self brought forth on the sides of Caucasus, by the rock of Typhaon, where Typhaon, they say, smitten by the b... ...he water surged as it gave them way. And on their left hand they had lofty Caucasus and the Cytaean city of Aea, and on the other side the plain of Ar... ...ght. It shot up first born when the ravening eagle on the rugged flanks of Caucasus let drip to the earth the blood like ichor of tortured Prometheus.... ...k to his comrades; and now early dawn arose and shed her light above snowy Caucasus. (ll. 1225 1245) Then Aeetes arrayed his breast in the stiff cors...

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...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... ... _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... ...ious paradise, O Sleep? Does the bright arch of rainbow clouds And pendent mountains seen in the calm lake, Lead only to a black and watery depth, ... ... elemental god. At midnight The moon arose; and lo! the ethereal cliffs Of Caucasus, whose icy summits shone Among the stars like sunlight, and around... ... _375 Ere yet the flood’s enormous volume fell Even to the base of Caucasus, with sound 48 V olume One That shook the everlasting rocks, the ... ... wide expand Beneath the wan stars and descending moon Islanded seas, blue mountains, mighty streams, _555 Dim tracts and vast, ... ...T 1 SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: A ravine of icy rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the precipice. Pantea and Ione ... ...2.1: SCENE 2.1: SCENE 2.1: SCENE 2.1: Morning. A lovely vale in the Indian Caucasus. Asia, alone. ASIA: ASIA: ASIA: ASIA: ASIA: From all the blasts of... ...my judge, _65 Even where he hangs, seared by my long revenge, On Caucasus! he would not doom me thus. Gentle, and just, and dreadless, is he...

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...of Bhanavar the Beautiful Know that at the foot of a lofty mountain of the Caucasus there lieth a deep blue lake; near to this lake a nest of serpents... ...ad passed the glade and the covert of the wood. Before them, between great mountains, glimmered a space of rolling grass fed to deep greenness by many... ...habitations of the tribe, stricken with her guilt, and wandered beyond the mountains, knowing not whither she went, looking on no living thing, for th... ..., ‘’Tis well!’ They spake no further, and pursued their journey toward the mountains and across the desert that was as a sea asleep in the blazing hea... ... Shagpat the beams of the growing moon they entered the first gorge of the mountains. Here they relaxed the swiftness of their pace, picking their way... ...the moonlight, took in the distance a robe of purple, and the sides of the mountains were rounded away in purple beyond a space of emerald pasture. No... ...ng constantly downward in darkness to the lower realms of the Genii of the Caucasus, and every sense, and even that of fear, was stunned in her. How l... ...ter, I counsel that thou by thy magic speed us to some remote point in the Caucasus, where we may abide the unravelling of this web securely, one way ...

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...ht of eighteen hundred feet, a degree of cold equal to that of the highest mountains of the globe. The summit of this rocky mass, rising sheer from th... ...rs reflecting the colors of the sky; a wondrous site in the bosom of these mountains when all other aspects of nature are levelled beneath successive ... ...es. Often, when the flocks of gray clouds, driven in squadrons athwart the mountains and among the tree-tops, hid the sky with their triple veils Eart... ...e and ges- ture seen and known only by those who have ascended the highest mountains of the globe,—a fervor so involuntarily acquired that the haughti... ... whole person. Was this splen- dor due to the lustre which the pure air of mountains and the reflections of the snow give to the complexion? Was it pr... ...es, it is easier to stir the imagination of the peoples at the feet of the Caucasus than to argue with the intellect of the icy lands which here surro...

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...rachosia, from Candaor East, And Margiana to the Hyrcanian cliffs Of Caucasus, and dark Iberian dales, From Atropatia and the neighbouring... ...phal Arcs, Gardens and Groves presented to his eyes, Above the highth of Mountains interpos’d. By what strange Parallax or Optic skill 40 Of vi...

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...onathan had taken place, when Saul was hunting him like a partridge on the mountains on the one side, and the Philistines had nearly taken his life on... ...alled Gedrosia, and now Mekhran. It was a most dismal tract. Above towered mountains of reddish-brown bare stone, tree- less and without verdure, the ... ...d the chief potentate of the East, whose domains stretched from the Indian Caucasus to the Aegaeus, from the Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling h... ... But the old Mattathias could not long bear the rude wild life in the cold mountains, and he soon died. First he called all his five sons, and bade th... ...cked his camp, they found it deserted, and supposing them to be hid in the mountains, proceeded hither in pursuit of them. But in the early morning Ju... ...eminding his men of this, Gorgias’s troops were seen looking down from the mountains where they had been wandering all night; but seeing their own cam... ...the Rus- sian army, who was made prisoner by one of the wild tribes of the Caucasus. But though the soldier’s attachment to his master was quite as br...

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...that soft rainy climate, on that wild-wooded rocky coast, with its gnarled mountains and green silent val- leys, with its seething rain-storms and man... ... earliest scene of it, had faded away from him: Bute also, with its shaggy mountains, moaning woods, and summer and winter seas, had been wholly a dis... ...ng only one range of moun- tains to it, if even one: certainly the central Mountains of Wales do gradually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the nor... ...n a miscellaneous manner, on the north side of it; but on the south are no mountains, not even land, only the Bristol Channel, and far off, the Hills ... ... of a human life. The Hill of Welsh Llanblethian, then, is like the mythic Caucasus in its de- gree (as indeed all hills and habitations where men so-... ... movement and variety than in your provincial Dublin, or among the Wicklow Mountains. We have the old prospect of bricks and smoke, the old crowd of b...

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...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... ...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... ... his enemies got notice of his coming. For the barbarians who dwelt on the mountains overlooking the desert, amazed at the multitude of fires they saw... ...ced of necessity to march through several nations inhab- iting about Mount Caucasus. Of these the Albanians and Iberians were the two chiefest. The Ib... ... no woman’s body was found among the dead. They inhabit the parts of Mount Caucasus that reach down to the Hyrcanian Sea, not immediately border- ing ... ...o pass through Hyrcania; thence to march along by the Caspian Sea to Mount Caucasus, and so on about Pontus, till he came into Scythia; then to overru... ...to reduce the tribes on the confines of India and the provinces near Mount Caucasus. And Demetrius, conjecturing that he had left Mesopotamia but slen... ... the kings of the Albanians and Iberians, and marched victorious as far as Caucasus, by which means the fame of Antony’s arms had become great among t...

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...e mountainous slopes of Thibet between the summits of the Himalaya and the Caucasus. “The character of the primitive ideas of that horde called by its... ...n monastic solitude was de- stroyed, uprooted from its home at the foot of mountains, under green and silent shade, asylums ought to have been provide...

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... 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... ...verance. The land appear’d a high and rocky coast, And higher grew the mountains as they drew, Set by a current, toward it: they were lost ... ... And ‘t is, no doubt, a sight to see when breaks Bright Phoebus, while the mountains still are wet With mist, and every bird with him awakes, ... ...ho further west Than your sires’ ‘Islands of the Blest.’ The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; ... ...rest notion Of getting into heaven the shortest way; My altars are the mountains and the ocean, Earth, air, stars,—all that springs from the g... ...r two: ‘T is said no one in hand ‘can hold a fire By thought of frosty Caucasus;’ but few, I really think; yet Juan’s then ordeal Was more t...

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... round; all things therein are incessantly moving, the earth, the rocks of Caucasus, and the pyramids of Egypt, both by the public motion and their ow... ...he comportment of men really overwhelmed with grief. In a country near our mountains the women play Priest Martin, for as they augment the regret of t... ...emain- der of a very great, army that followed her behind the neighbouring mountains to give him a visit; where she pub- licly and in plain terms told... ... the air and wind, which came with such violence as to beat down even many mountains, wherein the men died not, but were turned into baboons. What imp... ... plants, which they call moly. In this work, where they met with rocks and mountains, they cut them through, and made them even, and filled up pits an... ... first of these what he could do; he, to en- hance his own value, promised mountains and marvels, say- ing he could do this and that, and I know not w...

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...e Cæsars North, have walked for twenty years amongst our British lakes and mountains hatless, and amidst both snow and rain, such as Romans did not of... ...t Tyana in Cappadocia, as some say, from the effects of the climate of the Caucasus, co-operating with irritations from the insolence of the sol- dier...

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... one bred in crowded cit- ies, when first left alone in forests or amongst mountains, he is frightened at teir silence, their solitude, their magnitud... ...dly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when retreating through snowy mountains, and in circum- stances very like our General Elphinstone’s retre... ... the truth lay buried on this and that continent, in secret spots on Mount Caucasus—in the sands of Biledulgerid— and in hiding-places amongst the for...

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...no other waters but its own, and is on all sides en- circled with fruitful mountains, without any cause, unless it were divine, began visibly to rise ... ...ere divine, began visibly to rise and swell, increasing to the feet of the mountains, and by degrees reaching the level of the very tops of them, and ... ...ter number of women and young children, some of them, passing the Riphaean mountains, fell upon the Northern Ocean, and possessed themselves of the fa... ...ar- thest parts of Europe; others, seating themselves between the Pyrenean mountains and the Alps, lived there a considerable time, near to the Senone... ...cking out such of the Gauls as were nimblest of body, and by living in the mountains were accustomed to climb, he said to them, “The enemy them- selve... ...away before us. For do you not see the wide and unknown wilderness behind? Caucasus is not far off, and a multitude of vast mountains, enough to conce...

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...ing of the Anglo- Saxon on good, original, Negro stock. If the friends of “Caucasus” choose to claim, for that region, what remains after this analysi... ...ian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ever been, Mongols. The great “white race” now seek... ...r fertile fields, her beautiful rivers, her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mournin...

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... quantity of other monsters, while eternally departing for Karlsbad or the Caucasus, the author has but a small opinion. Yes, they are not the persons... ...eep it elsewhere than where it ought to have been; so that, buried beneath mountains (as it were) or enclosed within a massive shell, its move- ments ...

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.... White, if he had any touch of indulgence to human infirmity—unless Mount Caucasus were his mother, and a she-wolf his nurse—would surely relent, and... ...ays. In fact, one week’s pedestrian travelling amongst the Caernarvonshire mountains effected a revolution in my health such as left me nothing to com... ...e fourteen companies (or capitanerias) settled by imperial diplomas in the mountains of Olympus, Othryx, Pindus, and Œta; and distinct appropria- tion... ... and those unconquerable positions among the crests of wooded inaccessible mountains which had baffled all the armies of the crescent, led by the most...

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...which already began to peer above the eastern horizon and gild the distant mountains of Cumberland and Liddesdale. He seemed in a reverie, from which ... ...ent? I tell you, it crossed his way as inevitably as all the long chain of Caucasus could have done. Yes, young man, in doing and suffering, we play b... ... put three waters, reasonably deep, as the season was rainy , half a dozen mountains, and a few thousand acres of the worst moss and ling in Scotland,...

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...is own productions ?except for the story God sees the Truth, but Waits, which seeks a place in the first class (religious art), and A Prisoner in the Caucasus, which belongs to the second (universal art).? In the first of these the subject (a favourite one with Tolstoy) is the forgiveness of injuries. The second deals with the simplest feelings common to all men: fear and ...

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...Contents PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR-HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IV?N THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LITTLE GIRLS WISER TH...

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...cation PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK NEGLEC... ...ch seeks a place in the first class (religious art), and A Prisoner in the Caucasus, which belongs to the second (universal art).’ In the first of the... ...order for his release came, Aksyónof was already dead. 2 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS I AN OFFICER NAMED Z HÍLIN was serving in the army in the Caucasus... ...er and remain at home.’ Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “A Prisoner in the Caucasus” 13 Zhílin thought it over. It was quite true, the old lady was f... ...Ed.] as a farewell treat, and got ready to go. It was a time of war in the Caucasus. The roads were not safe by night or day. If ever a Russian ventur... ... 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... ...re, which rises every morning out of the sea and goes down again among the mountains of our island each evening. We have all seen this, and if you had... ...have in a fishing boat, you would know that the sun does not set among the mountains of our island, but as it rises from the ocean every morning so it...

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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 ... ...he rudi- ments; himself, giant Prometheus, is still ironed on the peaks of Caucasus. But by-and-by his truant interests will leave that tortured body,... ...ls undefinable among these slovenly verses, as the unseen cuckoo fills the mountains with his note; hence, even after we have flung the book aside, th... ...d gold, and been a pirate, and a military com- mander, and a bandit of the mountains; but has fought, and suffered shipwreck and prison, and imbrued i...

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.... The mountainous region of the State of Maine stretches from near the White Mountains, northeasterly one hundred and sixty miles, to the head of the ... ...ld mountainous shore, as we might have expected, but only isolated hills and mountains rising here and there from the plateau. The country is an archi... ...ke, which is one of the largest, stretched northwest ten miles, to hills and mountains in the distance. McCauslin pointed to some distant, and as yet ... ...ter, so called from the stream of the same name, signifying “running between mountains,” an im portant tributary which comes in a mile above. Here we... ... and dramatic poets, of Atlas, Vulcan, the Cyclops, and Prometheus. Such was Caucasus and the rock where Prometheus was bound. Æschylus had no doubt v... ... . . . as my way Lies through your spacious empire up to light.” The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a sli...

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...comrades; for that slaughter dealing man Pressed hard on them. As when from mountains high A shouting river with wide echoing din Sweeps down its fat... ...Whole throngs of foes fierce hearted Memnon slew. As when a hunter midst the mountains drives Swift deer within the dark lines of his toils — The eage... ...iads. Echoed round Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Troy 41 Far stretching mountains, and Aesopus’ stream. Ceaseless uprose the keen, and in their m... ...ortal Ones, Even all that helped the stalwart Danaans’ cause. In clouds like mountains piled they veiled their heads For grief of soul. But glad thos... ...’ feet; sang of the chant The Muses raised, and how its spell enthralled All mountains, rivers, all the forest brood; How raptured was the infinite fi... ... the strange upper air All dauntlessly. And there, at the world’s end, Were Caucasus’ long glens, where Hercules, Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Tr... ...g sun. There was the Titan Iapetus’ great son Hung from the beetling crag of Caucasus In bonds of adamant, and the eagle tare His liver unconsumed — h...

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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... ... 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... ...nd, ay, long before, Scorch to the quick, and into trenches carve The mighty mountains, and their upturned clods Bare to the north wind, ere thou plan... ...en not T o rake or man’s endeavour! the barren woods That crown the scalp of Caucasus, even these, Which furious blasts for ever rive and rend, Yield ... ...rained they roam Past Gargarus, past the loud Ascanian flood; They climb the mountains, and the torrents swim; And when their eager marrow first conce... ...n uprouse The boar, and scare him with their baying, and drive, And o’er the mountains urge into the toils Some antlered monster to their chiming cry....

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...’ voyages, Joining eidolons. Densities, growth, facades, Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees, Far born, far dying, living long, t... ...r heels and tangle my hair full of wisps. 10 Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee, In the l... ...th of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset—earth of the mountains misty topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just ti... ...r the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze; Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low scragged limbs... ...s me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions, The white topt mountains show in the distance, I fling out my fancies toward them, We ar... ...r in the arena at Seville! You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Caucasus! You Bokh horse herd watching your mares and stallions feeding! ... ... As brides and bridegrooms hand in hand. Passage to India! Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man, The river Euphrates flowing, the pa...

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...t he is but a boy and cannot speak, or will imitate Echo rebounding from the mountains. For we know that the love of books is the same thing as the lo... ...hose that are not, as it were in the mirror of eter nity. In books we climb mountains and scan the deepest gulfs of the abyss; in books we behold the... ...eres, and Pluto. But if we please to visit the heavenly inhabitants, Taurus, Caucasus, and Olympus are at hand, from which we pass beyond the realms o...

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...t To stop the current near Charybdis main, Or calm the blustering winds on mountains great, Than fierce desires of warlike hearts restrain; He rules t... ...e That in his warlike pride he made to shake, As winds tall cedars toss on mountains hoar: The king, that wondered at his bravery, spake To her, that ... ... for in vain he thought the labor spent, To assail those parts that to the mountains laid, Against the northern gate his force he bent, Gainst it he c... ...en to arms assemble, His feltered locks, that on his bosom fell, On rugged mountains briars and thorns resemble, His yawning mouth, that foamed clotte... ... The goblins, fairies, fiends and furies mad, Ranged in flowery dales, and mountains hoar, And under every trembling leaf they sit, Between the solid ... ...eld his looks he bended, So great that it might cover all the lands, Twixt Caucasus and Atlas hills extended; With it the lord’s dear flocks and faith... ...n race ysprung thou art, The mad sea-waves thee hare, some tigress wild On Caucasus’ cold crags nursed thee apart; Ah, cruel man l in whom no token mi...

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...t To stop the current near Charybdis main, Or calm the blustering winds on mountains great, Than fierce desires of warlike hearts restrain; He rules t... ...e That in his warlike pride he made to shake, As winds tall cedars toss on mountains hoar: The king, that wondered at his bravery, spake To her, that ... ... for in vain he thought the labor spent, To assail those parts that to the mountains laid, Against the northern gate his force he bent, Gainst it he c... ...en to arms assemble, His feltered locks, that on his bosom fell, On rugged mountains briars and thorns resemble, His yawning mouth, that foamed clotte... ... The goblins, fairies, fiends and furies mad, Ranged in flowery dales, and mountains hoar, And under every trembling leaf they sit, Between the solid ... ...eld his looks he bended, So great that it might cover all the lands, Twixt Caucasus and Atlas hills extended; With it the lord’s dear flocks and faith... ...n race ysprung thou art, The mad sea-waves thee hare, some tigress wild On Caucasus’ cold crags nursed thee apart; Ah, cruel man l in whom no token mi...

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... has Driven steeds and chariot—the child meanwhile strode O’er the Pierian mountains clothed in shadows, 10 Volume 3 Where the immortal oxen of the G... ... _250 Where a black bull was fed apart, between T wo woody mountains in a neighbouring glen, And four fierce dogs watched there, unani... ...alone am fond of prey. I found this little boy in a recess Under Cyllene’s mountains far away— _440 A manifest and mos... ... _15 And piercing cries amid the swift pursuit Of beasts among waste mountains,—such delight Is hers, and men who know and do the right. Nor Sat... ... Feeding his herds among the mossy fountains Of the wide Ida’s many-folded mountains,— Whom Venus saw, and loved, and the love clung Like wasting fire... ...Prometheus stole fire from heaven, and was chained for this crime to Mount Caucasus, where a vul- ture continually devoured his liver, that grew to me...

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...tudies at the gymna- sium, he got into a military school, then went to the Caucasus, was promoted, fought a duel, and was degraded to the ranks, earne... ...mily of landowners, had been in the army in early youth, and served in the Caucasus as an officer. He had, no doubt, impressed Alyosha by some peculia... ...v impatiently, crossing and recrossing his legs. “Oh, well, we have no mountains,” cried Father Iosif, and turning to the elder he continued: “Obs... ... actually no one, from the highest person to the lowest peasant, can shove mountains into the sea—except perhaps some one man in the world, or, at mos... ..., in a transport of delight. “So you do suppose there are two who can move mountains? Ivan, make a note of it, write it down. There you have the Russi... ...ow about Smerdyakov’s belief in the existence of two saints who could move mountains.” “Why, am I like him now, then?” “Very much.” “Well,...

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...od that choketh, and a sore torment. The day cometh when the earth and the mountains shall be shaken; and the mountains shall become a loose sand heap... ... what the Blow is? The Day when men shall be like scattered moths, And the mountains shall be like flocks of carded wool, Then as to him whose balance... ...the sun shall be FOLDED UP , 1 And when the stars shall fall, And when the mountains shall be set in motion, And when the she-camels shall be abandone... ... earth,– He brought forth from it its waters and its pastures; And set the mountains firm For you and your cattle to enjoy. But when the grand overthr... ...re, shall be blotted out, And when the heaven shall be cleft, And when the mountains shall be scattered in dust, And when the Apostles shall have a ti... ...ever, is probably the mountain Ghef or Ghogh (see Reinegg’s Beschreib. der Caucasus, ii. 79) and the syllable Ma in Magog, the Sanscrit mah, maha grea...

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...tudies at the gymna- sium, he got into a military school, then went to the Caucasus, was promoted, fought a duel, and was degraded to the ranks, earne... ...mily of landowners, had been in the army in early youth, and served in the Caucasus as an officer. He had, no doubt, impressed Alyosha by some peculia... ...v impatiently, crossing and recrossing his legs. “Oh, well, we have no mountains,” cried Father Iosif, and turning to the elder he continued: “Obs... ... actually no one, from the highest person to the lowest peasant, can shove mountains into the sea—except perhaps some one man in the world, or, at mos... ..., in a transport of delight. “So you do suppose there are two who can move mountains? Ivan, make a note of it, write it down. There you have the Russi... ...ow about Smerdyakov’s belief in the existence of two saints who could move mountains.” “Why, am I like him now, then?” “Very much.” “Well,... ... “N-no, SiciIy is not the place for the family, the family should go to Caucasus in the early spring… your daughter must go to the Caucasus, and yo... ...ust go to the Caucasus, and your wife… after a course of the waters in the Caucasus for her rheumatism… must be sent straight to Paris to the mental s... ...joke of appearing in the figure of a retired general who had served in the Caucasus, with a star of the Lion and the Sun on my coat. But I was positiv...

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...reatises; as you may like- wise perceive by experience, when you pass over mountains covered with snow, how you will complain that you cannot see well... ...f threepence towards the zenith and a halfpenny, forasmuch as the Riphaean mountains had been that year oppressed with a great sterility of counterfei... ...Architus of Tarentum; in Apollonius Tyaneus, who went as far as unto Mount Caucasus, passed along the Scythians, the Massagetes, the Indians, and sail... ...hia (at) Constantinople, 287 Rabelais and saw there great rocks, like the mountains in Denmark— I believe that those were his teeth. I saw also fair ... ...the countries Cisalpine and T ransalpine, that is, behither and beyond the mountains, so have they there the countries Cidentine and T radentine, that... ...how he found it, and the way how to use it; how he passed over the Caspian mountains, and how he sailed through the Atlantic sea, de- feated the Canni... ...hom the Tyanean phi- losopher did see between the river Hydaspes and Mount Caucasus, but in a perpendicular dimension of altitude; which were things n...

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... Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows, from mute nature, from the mountains and the lights of the firmament. These hints, dropped as it were ... ...loctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep, to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as 18 Essays an ebbing sea. ... ...r both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the bound- ary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air. If they set o... ..., which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty ... ...red it parted at intervals and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base, whereon ... ...efore him. He hears the ech- oes of a horn in a hill country, in the Notch Mountains, for example, which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,—...

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...devoted by him to aiding the Doukhobors, a sect who were persecuted in the Caucasus (especially from 1895 to 1898) for refusing to learn war. About se... ...me sectarians who had been separated from their families and exiled to the Caucasus because they read and discussed the Gospels. It was not so much to... ... He had received this order, which he greatly valued, while serving in the Caucasus, because a number of Russian peas- ants, with their hair cropped, ... ...brightly in the sun that had risen above the forest. A little to the right mountains began to gleam white in the blue-grey distance, and the trap ente... ...e of them go astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains and seek that which goeth astray? And if so be that he find it, v...

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...e grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan. ” But the T aliban, like the Sudanese, would eventua... ... its London base and its other offices around Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. Bin Ladin bolstered his links to extremists in South and Southeas... ...aliban and Bin Ladin” (January 1999), “Terrorist Threat to US Interests in Caucasus” (June 1999), “Bin Ladin to Exploit Looser Security During Holiday...

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...waters of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pin... ...esvitski. “They’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross the Bohemian mountains with. It’s a bad lookout, old fellow! But what’s the matter with ... ...ia, he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and aband... ...he heights to attack the French right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, were already up and astir. The smoke of the ca... .... “Didn’t he vanish somewhere?” “He did,” replied Shinshin. “He was in the Caucasus and ran away from there. They say he has been acting as minister t... ...hat her whole soul was in her prayer. Y es, that was the prayer that moves mountains, and I am sure her prayer will be answered. Why don’t I pray for ... ...s. This was done by the guerrillas in Spain, by the mountain tribes in the Caucasus, and by the Russians in 1812. People have called this kind of war ...