...difficult landing-place, upon an isle so pleasant that one began to think of the " Lotus-eaters " — " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon." It was curious to observe that in anticipation of earthquakes the lighting machinery of the lighthouse...

...fit to be the speech of those weary of the sea, the oar, " The wandering fields of barren foam." " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon." The frequency of the vowels lends it an Italian softness, but, like that of all rude people, it is...

...Christian travelers, as the Laureate sings of those whom only his imagination saw on the journey : " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon." XXV. THE FINAL PRAYER. HE WHICH TESTIFIETH THESE THINGS SAITH, SURELY I COME QUICKLY ; AMEN. EVEN so,...

...whilst streams of water, flashing and sparkling in the sunlight, coursed down the hills to the sea — "And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along...the cliff to fall, and pause, and fall did seem." To the north, however, all was different. No gentle murmurings of freshly formed rivulets fell peacefully...

...All things seemed to quiver and reel in the glaring heat of the sun ; it was a " lotos-eating " day. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Lulled by the drowsy peacefulness of everything about me, and the monotonous regularity of all the...

...that of which our poet-laureate thus writes : — ' In the afternoon they came unto a land Wherein it seemed always afternoon ; All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that had a troubled dream. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land ; far off three...

...fortress, and are lounging away the hours while the busy waves are moaning and murmuring about them. "All round the coast the languid air did swoon, breathing like one who hath a weary dream." They are at peace with themselves and the world ; they have found a land of...

...COURAGE ! " he said, and pointed toward the land ; "This mounting wave shall roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...Along the cliff to fall, and pause, and fall did seem. n. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ;...

...down, And in the vast cathedral leave him, God accept him, Christ receive him. CHAPTER IV. LOTOS-LAND. In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. The Loton-Ealers. IP ever one were justified in rising out of the path of exact narration, and indulging...

...poet has described this country : " In the afternoon they came into a land In which it always seemed afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did...the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause did seem." If the king and his companions had once tasted the fatal juice of the lotos, there would...