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Gades : Roman name of oldest extant urban settlement in Spain, on a promontory south of the Baetis (Guadalquivir) estuary near the Pillars of Hercules (Strait of Gibraltar). It was a one

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... Africa's suns and bright Hesperian orchards, Carthage our mart and our feet on the sunset hills of the Latins. Ilion's hinds in the dream ploughed Libya, sowed Italy's cornfields, Troy stretched to Gades; even the gods and the Fates had grown Trojan. So are the natures of men uplifted by Heaven in its satire. Scorning the bit of the gods, despisers of justice and measure, Zeus is denied and adored... ripen to dawning, Then shall Victory cry to our banners over the Ocean Calling our sons with her voice immortal. Children of Ilus, Then shall Troy rise in her strength and stride over Greece up to Gades."     So Antenor spoke and the mind of the hostile assembly Moved and swayed with his words like the waters ruled by Poseidon. Even as the billows rebellious lashed by the whips of the tempest Curvet... past southern Cythera, Turning away in silence from waters where on some headland Gazing south o'er the waves my father waits for my coming, Leaving Sicily's shores and on through the pillars of Gades. Far I would sail whence sound of me never should come to Achaia Out into tossing worlds and weltering reaches of tempest Dwarfing the swell of the wide-wayed Aegean,—Oceans unbounded Either by ...

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... The Oxus and Jaxartes and these mountains Vague and enormous shouldering the moon With all their dim beyond of nations huge; This were an empire! What are Syria, Greece And the blue littoral to Gades? They are Too narrow to contain my soul, too petty To satisfy its hunger and its vastness. O pale, sweet Parthian face with liquid eyes Mid darkest masses and O gracious limbs Obscuring this epitome ...

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... possession of the armour of Achilles. The Small, son of Oileus and called the Locrian, boastful in character and reputed to be the fastest of the Greeks next to Achilles, figures as alive in Ilion. Gades, mentioned in Antenor's speech, is the old name for Cadiz on the south-west coast of Spain and marked for the ancients the farthest point beyond the Straits of Gibraltar, on either side of which were ...

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... between my horizons Buffeting death in his solitudes labour through swell and through storm-blast Bound for each land with her sons and watched for by eyes in each haven. I from Tyre up to Gades trace on my billows their trade-routes And on my vast and spuming Atlantic suffer their rudders. Carthage and Greece are my children, the marts of the world are my term-posts. Who then ...

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... But probably, knowing him as I do, and Bhima 123 being such a great hero, he must have taken a great delight in the heroic exploits of Gad ā dhar 114 Bhima. You also must have enjoyed it, I'm sure. But what you liked most I don't know - Bh ima's gad ā 125 or Krishna's chakra 126 or Draupadi's sad plight, or perhaps the dancing of the dwarf. If you ask me, I'll tell you what I liked ...

... mind is a vagabond, it roves, it comes and goes, it enters and goes out. There are very few people who have organised their mind sufficiently to keep it within them, close-packed, and prevent it from gadding about. At times I seem to go out of my body and see it dead. But that is a mere dream; probably you did not go out of your body at all. There are people who dream they are dead. But that is ...

... faith in immortality and faith in personality, until eventually they came to faith in Christ. They mean more than Margaret Fuller's declaration, 'I accept the universe', which led Carlyle to exclaim, 'Gad! she'd better', but the World is the beginning, not the end, of Teilhard's faith."   True, there is a series of "faiths" mentioned and expounded, but they arise from the belief in "a World that ...

... bathe the style in colour and grace and literary elegance, for it demands vigilant self-restraint, firm intellectual truthfulness and unsparing rejection, the three virtues most difficult to the gadding, inventive and self indulgent spirit of man. The art of Vyasa is therefore a great, strenuous art; but it unfitted him, as a similar spirit unfitted the Greeks, to voice fully the outward beauty of ...

... bathe the style in colour and grace and literary elegance, for it demands vigilant self-restraint, firm intellectual truthfulness and unsparing rejection, the three virtues most difficult to the gadding, inventive and self-indulgent spirit of man. The art of Vyasa is therefore a great, strenuous art; but it unfitted him, as a similar spirit unfitted the Greeks, to voice fully the outward beauty ...

... to bathe the style in colour and grace and literary elegance, for it demands vigilant concentration, firm intellectual truthfulness and unsparing rejection, the three virtues most difficult to the gadding, inventive and self-indulgent spirit of man. The art of Vyasa is therefore a great, strenuous and difficult art; but it unfitted him, as a similar spirit, unfitted the Greeks, to voice fully the outward ...

... We are fools Who reach at baubles taking them for stars. Page 50 O wiser woman who come straight to Heaven! But I have wandered by the way and staled The freshness of delight with gadding pleasures, Anticipated Love's perfect fruit with sour And random berries void of real savour. Oh fool! had I but known! What can I say But once more that I have deserved you not, Who yet must ...

... sign is a proof, absolutely none. You can't base yourself on anything, neither on superb health, good balance, nor on an almost general disorganization — none of that is proof. All of a sudden, we gad about in a body that no longer resembles anything we know — yet this is the true body. The true body consciousness. A mysterious stranger beneath its fourfold web ... illusory web. 62.1610 Each ...