The Ionian Islands in the Year 1863W.H. Allen, 1863 - 480 pages |
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Aitos Albanian alluded Amaxiki ancient Ancona appearance Argostoli Bathi beautiful Black Mountain boat building built cavern Cephalonia Cerigo certainly chiefly Chieri church cliff coast construction Corcyra Corfu covered Cranea crops cultivated curious currant Cyclopean distance doubt earthquake east Echinades extremity feet Frikis goats Greece Greek ground gypsum harbour hill Homer houses inhabitants interesting Ionian Islands Ithaca kind lagoon land Leucadia Leucas limestone Lixuri lofty looking Lord High Commissioner matter miles modern monastery narrow natural nearly obtained occupied olive groves partly pass Paxo picturesque pleasant population present principal probably rain remains remarkable Resident rise road rock ruins Samos San Salvador Santa Maura Santi Deca seems seen Septinsular Republic shore side spring steep stones style sulphur summit surface tain terrace tion town Trieste Ulysses valley vegetation Venetians village vines walls weather whole wind wine Zante
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Page 264 - And now from their fountains In Enna's mountains, Down one vale where the morning basks, Like friends once parted Grown single-hearted, They ply their watery tasks. At sunrise they leap From their cradles steep In the cave of the shelving hill ; At noontide they flow Through the woods below And the meadows of Asphodel ; And at night they sleep In the rocking deep Beneath the Ortygian shore ; Like spirits that lie In the azure sky When they love but live no more.
Page 110 - Pelodes there was such a calm of wind that the ship stood still in the sea unmoored, he was forced to cry aloud that Pan was dead ; wherewithal there were such piteous outcries and dreadful shrieking as hath not been the like.
Page 110 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 144 - O God of our salvation ; Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.
Page 292 - Mnestheus to the head his arrow drove "With lifted eyes, and took his aim above. But to justify this artificial connection among the words, the ideas they...
Page 123 - Leucas posita est, colli adplicata verso in orientem et Acarnaniam. Ima urbis plana sunt, jacentia ad mare, quo Leucadia ab Acarnania dividitur. Inde terra manque expugnabilis est : nam et vada sunt stagno similiora, quam mari : et campus terrenus omnis operique facilis.
Page 314 - A curious natural phenomenon occurs and is taken advantage of in the neighbourhood of Argostoli. At four points on the coast, the sea, at its ordinary level, enters a very narrow creek, or broken rocky channel, and after running somewhat rapidly through this channel and among broken fragments of rock for a short distance, it gradually becomes sucked into the earth and disappears. By conducting the water through an artificial canal for a few yards, and so regulating its course and forcing all the...
Page 123 - Leucadia nunc insula, et vadoso freto, quod perfossum manu est, ab Acarnania divisa, turn peninsula erat, occidentis regione artis faucibus cohcerens Acarnanise.
Page 110 - Here, about the time that our Lord suffered His most bitter Passion, certain persons sailing from Italy to Cyprus at night, heard a voice calling aloud :