Moor : in English usage Moroccans & sometimes former Muslims of Spain, of mixed Arab, Spanish, & Berber origins, who subsequently settled in North Africa between 11th & 17th centuries. Modern Mauritanians are also sometimes referred to as Moors.
... Doom has claimed me for her own Because I sole confront you. For my name Ask the pale thousands whose swift-footed fear Hardly escaped my single onset; ask Your famous chieftains cold on hill or moor Upon my fatal route. Yet not for war I sought this region nor by death equipped, Inhospitable people who deny The human bond, but as a man to men Alone I came and without need of fear, If fear ...
... national cultures where now the savage or the semi-savage swarm uncreative and unreflecting,—such as may be argued from the ruins of Mashonaland or the state of mediaeval Barbary after the ravages of Moor and Vandal or even the fate which overtook for almost a millennium the magnificent structure of Graeco-Roman culture and threatened even to blot out its remnants and ruins,—the question then arises ...
... speedily end with the Turk not only in occupation of Thessaly but entering Athens. Spain and the Moor Another corner of the Asiatic world—for Northern Africa is thoroughly Asianised if not Asiatic,—is convulsed with struggles which may well precede another resurgence. There was a time when the Moor held Spain and gave civilisation to semi-barbarous Europe. The revolution of the wheel has now gone ...
... and live with the Graeco-Italians of the South: in Germany the Prussian, the Slav, the Pole, and the South German are of different race types and temperaments: in Spain the Iberian, the Goth and the Moor have mingled their blood: in France there are the Breton, still a distinct race, the Provencal and the Frank as well as the Celts of the Centre and the Aquitanian, each with noticeable marks of their ...
... Russia and England it was the domination of a foreign conquering race which rapidly became a ruling caste and was in the end assimilated and absorbed, in Spain the succession of the Roman, Goth and Moor, in Italy the overlordship of the Austrian, in the Balkans 3 the long suzerainty of the Turk, in Germany the transient yoke of Napoleon. But in all cases the essential has been a shock or a pressure ...
... of subjectivity, poetry "unsicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", as the greatest of the phanopoeists, Shakespeare, would have put it if he had had something to do not only with Othello, the Moor of Venice, but also with George, the Moore of London. Typical instances would be Coleridge's lines on the "one red leaf" that could most easily be wind-stirred and that still hung motionless: ...
... scenes doing things. But in the plays themselves the occult activity is very seldom shown. Othello was accused of using witchcraft in winning Desdemona. The Venetian Senate couldn't imagine how a Moor, a dark man, who could have said, like the King of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice, Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, had fascinated a girl ...
... tardy trumpets of the dawn, In hunger and in plenty and in pain, Through peril and through triumph and through fall, Through life's green lanes and over her desert sands, Up the bald moor, along the sunlit ridge In serried columns with a straggling rear Led by its nomad vanguard's signal fires, Marches the army of the waylost god. 5 Far from being an ineffectual ...
... concrete images that stand vivid before the mind's eye is the natural genius of a poet. Here is a familiar picture, simple and effective, of a material vision: Cold blows the blast across the moor The sleet drives hissing in the wind, Yon toilsome mountain lies before, A dreary treeless waste behind. Or we may take a pictorial presentation of a gorgeous kind ...
... beautiful concrete images that stand vivid before the mind's eye is the natural genius of a poet. Here is a familiar picture, simple and effective, of a material vision: Cold blows the blast across the moor The sleet drives hissing in the wind, Yon toilsome mountain lies before, A dreary treeless waste behind. Or we may take a pictorial presentation of a gorgeous kind from Milton: High ...
... n , but around what is that "integration" supposed to take place? Integrating requires a center. Do they propose to integrate around the turmoil of the mental or vital ego? One might as well try to moor a boat by fastening it to the tail of an eel. Having discovered the psychic kingdom within, we must patiently, gradually colonize and adjoin the outer kingdom to it. If we are interested in a realization ...
... San Juan de Compostello, a hero of Spanish history; he had appeared in a battle between the Christians and the Moors and his apparition vanquished the Moors. And he was magnificent! He appeared in golden light on a white horse, almost like Kalki. 6 ) All the slaughtered and struggling Moors were depicted at the bottom of the painting, and it was I who painted them; it was too hard for me to climb high ...
... lake he finds a small shepherd's boat moored in a cave and cannot resist going out for a row on the moonlit water. He fixes the outline of a crag as a point to steer by. As he approaches that ridge, from behind it a huge cliff rears its head and grows larger, larger ... and "like a living thing, strode after me". The boy quickly returns the boat to its mooring place and hurries homeward "with grave... And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me. With trembling oars I fumed, And through the silent water stole my way Back to the covert of the willow tree; There in her mooring-place I left my bark, — And through the meadows homeward went, in grave And serious mood; but after I had seen Page 224 That spectacle, for many days, my brain ...
... boiling, and, while his stump was being plunged in the boiling liquid, lighted from the flame with the utmost serenity a cigarette he held in his hand. Whatever may be the present backwardness of the Moors and the averseness to light of their tribes, there is the stuff of a strong, warlike and princely nation in the land which gave birth to these iron men. If ever the wave of Egyptian Neo-Islam and Mahomedan ...
... moment. Chandernagore is some thirty kilometres upriver from Calcutta. They reached it before dawn, about four in the morning. It had taken the boat almost seven hours to reach Rani Ghat where it moored. The sailing-rowing had gone smoothly, except for a slight delay of ten to fifteen minutes when the boat got stuck on a sandbank. Eight pairs of hands pushed and shoved, and lo! the boat was free, ...
... the side of the Christians and attacked the Infidels, thus carrying the day for the Christians. Since then Santiago Matamoro (Saint James killer of the Moors) has been the patron saint of Spain. 13 ‘It was I who painted the slain and struggling Moors,’ the Mother said later, ‘because I couldn’t climb up. One had to climb high on a ladder to paint. That was too difficult, so I did the things at the... Mirra collaborated with her husband on the panel called The Apotheosis of Saint James. It represents a scene from the Battle of Clavijo fought in 844 between the Spanish Christians and the Muslim Moors, who occupied a large part of the peninsula. The battle was fought because one hundred promised virgins had not been delivered to the Caliph of Cordoba. At the crucial moment St James, wearing shining ...
... Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, a Spanish soldier. The Spaniards were notorious for the 'Inquisition' cruelties. Flush with the victory over Islamic Moors, they had a surplus of religious zeal. When they landed in the Americas, the Spaniards proclaimed that they came "in the service of God ... to give light to those who were in darkness, and also to acquire ...
... The Departure Water was singing through all the cracks in the harbour, the air smelled of hot mangoes and the ebb-tide, and my Laurelbank was there, firmly moored to the second wharf. I sang, too. Each time I sang. I was as light as foam on budding life. Mohini had foundered there with her island, in the Tartarus of a previous existence, and hop! to windward ...
... would hire a boat at Calcutta and proceed upstream to the appointed ghat on the opposite side of the river below Uttarpara. It was further decided that in event of any delay, Amar's boat would not be moored at the ghat, to avoid attention being drawn to it, but move towards the mid-river. Each boat would fly a banner of the same kind which would be their flag of identification. Once the two boats had... flying on a boat which he would come across near a ghat on the opposite side of Agarpara. He should meet this boat, transfer its passengers to his own boat and carry them to the Dupleix which would be moored at Chandpal Ghat. Surendrakumar did not ask any questions nor did he show any undue curiosity. He left to do his work as instructed.' When Nagen came back after having deposited the two trunks in ...
... site of this barbarian stronghold. The construction on the river in appearance like a house, but apparently standing on the water can have been nothing but a houseboat or rather a house-raft, & it is moored to a char in the river, a fact which suggested the first erroneous idea that it was a house on an island in the river. Page 1329 The third image, the large, high & spacious hut, built ...
... Hellespont; Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. But in the Moor's tragedy Shakespeare's eye is not cast deliberately inward on the occult. It is even doubtful whether, when he does seem to scrutinise and use the secret suggestions from "the undiscovered country" ...
... as one states a fact or points out an error in the colour of a picture. But it was the whole picture which looked false; that furious, ashamed Björn, that enormous bulge of cinnabar, those feluccas moored alongside, awaiting their turn under the grinding cranes, the sacks of phosphate which made the air stink, and the cry of the macua ; 13 all that floated before me like a fiat, artificial picture ...
... them she removed all traces of the sagas as if what had been fictionalised had at its back a real-life movement. We have two almost opposite parts in Emily, a dichotomy of urge in which the Pennine moors and "the World behind the world" stand as keen rivals. It is not any Heathcliff who is finally figured as coming to the thought of Cathy's maker: A messenger of Hope comes every night... again - The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain. In the face of the spiritual passion in these lines, as direct as Page 99 the very wind on her wild moors, would you assert that I lose entirely in citing Emily as an example in my favour? Now to your references to Milton. A rather complex situation they present to me. His "abstractions" and "negatives" ...
... "He played a part in Spain's history." Mother described the story they painted. "He had appeared Page 133 during a battle between the Christians and the Moors and, because he appeared, the Moors were vanquished. He was magnificent! He had appeared in a golden light, on a white horse —almost like Kalki here." According to Indian tradition, KALKI will be the tenth and the... discus in one hand and, in the other, a sword like a flaming comet. He will slay Kali, 1 the Iron Age, and reestablish the Age of Truth. "All the slain Moors were at the bottom," Mother specified, "and I painted the slain or the struggling Moors, the reason being," she smiled, "that I could not climb to the top of the ladder to paint, it was much too difficult! So I painted what was at the bottom ...
... intensity, though not the full force. Samadhi. (1) Antardarshi. Chhayamaya scenes, a railway line by a precipice, a train speeding up and back far out of sight, a path among mountains or moors or between two precipices with a cavalcade going, a two horsed carriage advancing, a horseman turning to fight, groups on foot, etc. Mountain scenes. A lake with a boat and a woman; the same with bird ...
... the-main altar in the Church of St. James of Compostela at Pau in France. A Spanish legend portrayed St. James appearing 'in a golden light on a white horse, almost like Kalki' and vanquishing the Moors. - Aug 23 Birth of her only child, Andre Morisset. Cures the child's illnesses 'without ever calling a doctor'. 1901-1907 Introduced, by Mattéo's friend Louis Thémanlys, to Le Groupe Cosmique ...
... curve, hollow leather oil-vessel contain mooring post.. tree or rock in middle of river projection. mast. कूपी small well.. navel flask, bottle कूपकः well .. hole, cavity.. cave .. leather oil-vessel. hollow, contain hollow below the loins ककुन्दरः hollow mooring stake .. mast.. rock or tree in midst of river (Subst) projection ...
... of Nectar came down, and as I sank deeper and deeper into that bodily pit under the pressure of the Fire from on high, I have not stopped seeing “dead” people! My old head is, alas, solid and safely moored, and I have never been enamored of postmortem knowledge. Yet I would see all manner of departed people I was not particularly or at all interested in, who would come and tell me or show me their story ...
... is a creature of romance too, as may be inferred from his words to his mother Ameena: I shall go forth, a daring errant-knight, To my true country out in Faeryland; Wander among the Moors, see Granada, The delicate city made of faery stone, Cairo, Tangier, Aleppo, Trebizond; Or in the East, where old enchantment dwells, Find Pekin of the wooden piles. Delhi Of ...
... necessary indeed to grasp, but even when we have mastered their delicate distinctions, refined upon refinement and brought ourselves to the verge of infinite ideas, there at least we must pause; we are moored to our brains and cannot in this body cut the rope in order to spread our sails over the illimitable ocean. It is enough if we satisfy ourselves with some dim realisation of the fact that all sentience ...
... patrimony You'll waste,—and then? NUREDDENE Then, mother, life begins. I shall go forth, a daring errant-knight, To my true country out in faeryland; Page 40 Wander among the Moors, see Granada, The delicate city made of faery stone, Cairo, Tangier, Aleppo, Trebizond; Or in the East, where old enchantment dwells, Find Pekin of the wooden piles, Delhi Of the idolaters, its ...
... of thought is the sphere of Silence. It is alone the entrance to this sphere, major octave of planetary consciousness, which one can call detachment. The being is as a ship which, having left its mooring, sails on the ocean of another dimension where all is to be rediscovered in a different way and where the sense of universal manifestation in its entirety, as in its least elements, is more rich and ...
... while we were hammering and being hammered in the smaller fortress, the reserve on the Orleans side poured across the bridge and attacked the Tourelles from that side. A fire-boat was brought down and moored under the drawbridge which connected the Tourelles with our boulevard; wherefore, when at last we drove our English ahead of us and they tried to cross that drawbridge and join their friends in the ...
... warm? It would be splendid here. Can you arrange that for me as soon as possible? Exactly the same style as yours. So I will have the impression of walking with you in this country that is not the moors but is the beauty of our large and free heart. I am so happy, I am recovering my youth, as if shaking off years of misery. Sujata and I kiss you very tenderly. See you soon? In any case,... He shows me the passport photo of a missionary woman: "She has been living for fifty years in India. Such a nice lady!" * To go and bury myself at Belle-Isle? [in Brittany] To find the moors destroyed by tarred roads and truck-loads of tourists as on the Cote Sauvage [Wild Coast]? — is anything wild left, except the hearts of men? * It is the end of the illusion that is terrible: ...
... or actions (I don't know what to call it), my body together with my whole being had to participate. Otherwise, what's the point? That's a taste I picked up once and for all while running on the moors, with the smell of furze, seaweed and spray. That had a REAL meaning for me. And the cries of sea gulls.... That was FULL, as it were. For me, that was already a sort of divine life. Page 81 ...
... wholly. "Calm with the greatness you hold from your sires by the right of your nature I too would have you decide before Heaven in the strength of your spirits, Not to the past and its memories moored like the thoughts of Antenor Hating the vivid march of the present, nor towards the future Panting through dreams like my brother Laocoon vexed by Apollo. Dead is the past; the void has possessed ...
... Saint-Pierre and Belle-lie. “Bagheeraâ€� was my first skiff. × 55 A little wood on the Brittany moors. × 56 Sujata’s birthday, on December 12. ...
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