The passage between 2 and the small islets 3 and 4 is the best; there is six and seven fathoms water; but in passing this, it must be recollected that the tide sets towards the islands on the northern side.

The only original passage of any particular merit is the hunter's dirge over the drowned Aeglamour, which is perhaps worth quoting[290]:

As a matter of course, while near the mole, or the common anchorage, it was necessary to pass amid a floating throng; but, once beyond the limits of this crowd, the size of the bay rendered it quite easy to avoid unpleasant collisions without any apparent effort; while the passage of a boat in any direction was an occurrence too common to awaken distrust.

what tediousness!for tedious to a strange degree, it must be confessed that whole passages are, particularly the earlier stanzas of the fourth canto.

A compromise was agreed to; for, like so many other great political triumphs, the passage of the Ordinance of 1787 was a compromise.

If Lady Morgan had called this volume "Passages from my Card-Basket," there would have been some harmony between the title and the contents.

Once, on my way to the telephone, I ran into her just where the passage is somewhat jammed by a square table carrying the Chinese gong, a grandfather's clock and a box of croquet mallets.

But for us his most significant passage is the following: "When old age actually came, something curious happened.

This passage of the Epistle of Polycarp is the earliest instance of the use of the word 'Antichrist' outside the Johannean writings in which, alone of the New Testament, it occurs five times.

The passage of the Kotal Perizun with a large caravan must be terrible work.

And is this passage is a railroad track.

The passage of this act was the culmination of years of efforts in and out of Congress.

Let us briefly recall what this apparently so "dangerous" philosophy of Pater's is, and we cannot do better than examine it in its most concentrated and famous utterance, this oft-quoted passage from that once-suppressed "Conclusion" to The Renaissance: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

" The passage down the Otsego was the easiest and most agreeable portion of the whole journey.

The best known passage in Douglas is the speech beginning 'My name is Norval.'

How this poor and solitary old man had obtained these notions does not appear; he could not have told the process himself, though, as he afterwards told Tamar, all the rest he knew, had seemed to come to him, through the clearing and manifestation of one passage of Scripture, and this passage was COL. iii. 11.

Boswell's son James says that he heard from his father, that the passage which excited this strong emotion was the following: 'Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more: I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you;

I agree with Bull in holding [Greek: apò tou hymetérou génous] the most probable reading in the passage cited from Justin, and am by no means convinced that the celebrated passage in Josephus is an interpolation.

The passage about the howling of the wolves, and the fever faint of the victim, is as graphic as anything in Burns The skies spun like a mighty wheel, I saw the trees like drunkards reel.

[Footnote 45: The passage respecting his past life is unequivocal testimony to the fact, confidently disputed by some, of Dante's having availed himself of the license of the time; though, in justice to such candour, we are bound not to think worse of it than can be helped.

The passages and alleys and other divisions of this car will be the streets and edifices of that fortified city.

A feeling of snugness comes over you on entering; small passages, closed doors, and an amplitude of curtainsthere are curtains at every door in the churchinduce a sensation of coziness; but when you get within, a sort of bewildering disappointment supervenes.

The passage is a justification, then, of the action of the Christian Church.

The following passage is certainly Johnsonian:'The excellency of a rocket consists in the largeness of the train of fire it emits, the solemnity of its motion (which should be rather slow at first, but augmenting as it rises), the straightness of its flight, and the height to which it ascends.'

The safe passage of the stream was the first great object, and General Hooker's dispositions to effect this were highly judicious.