I know, you have forgotten those June nights on the Riviera, where we sat 'neath the shimmering skies, moonlight bathing in the Me...diterranean! We were young, gay, reckless! The night I drank champagne from your slipper--two quarts. It would have held more, but you were wearing inner soles!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded... steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more delicious ...than the lovely terraces and villas of Monte Carlo I do not wish to see them. There is nothing beyond the semi-tropical vegetation, the projecting promontories into the Mediterranean, the all-embracing sweep of the ocean, the olive groves, and the enchanting climate! One gets tired of the word beautiful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the lan...d, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What though the traveler tell us of the ruins of Egypt, are we so sick or idle that we must sacrifice our America and today to som...e man's ill-remembered and indolent story? Carnac and Luxor are but names, or if their skeletons remain, still more desert sand and at length a wave of the Mediterranean Sea are needed to wash away the filth that attaches to their grandeur. Carnac! Carnac! here is Carnac for me. I behold the columns of a larger and purer temple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though for some time I have not spoken of the roaring of the breakers, and the ceaseless flux and reflux of the waves, yet they di...d not for a moment cease to dash and roar, with such a tumult that, if you had been there, you could scarcely have heard my voice the while; and they are dashing and roaring this very moment,--though it may be with less din and violence,--for there the sea never rests. We were wholly absorbed by this spectacle and tumult, and like Chryses, though in a different mood from him, we walked silent along the shore of the resounding sea ...--though I doubt if Homer's Mediterranean Sea ever sounded so loud as this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habita...ble. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say... it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like to the Pontic Sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course... Ne'er knows retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air.... It is a guzzling..., lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »