"Calpe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hastened to help. Wondrous leather-roofed Floating-batteries, set afloat by French-Spanish Pacte de Famille, give gallant summons: to which, nevertheless, Gibraltar answers Plutonically, with mere torrents of redhot iron,—as if stone Calpe had become a throat of the Pit; and utters such a Doom's-blast of a No, as all men must credit. (Annual Register (Dodsley's), xxv. ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... because it lay at the west, under the rays of the setting sun. This description is thought to apply to Spain, of which Geryon was king. After traversing various countries, Hercules reached at length the frontiers of Libya and Europe, where he raised the two mountains of Calpe and Abyla, as monuments of his progress, or, according to another account, rent one mountain into two and left half on each side, forming the straits of Gibraltar, the two mountains being called the Pillars of Hercules. The oxen were guarded by the ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... Calpe's straits survey the steepy shore;[ei] Europe and Afric on each other gaze![126] Lands of the dark-eyed Maid and dusky Moor Alike beheld beneath pale Hecate's blaze: How softly on the Spanish shore she plays![127] Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown,[128] ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... twain, and with a double point Rose, like the Theban brothers' funeral fire. 550 The earth went off her hinges; and the Alps Shook the old snow from off their trembling laps.[635] The ocean swelled as high as Spanish Calpe Or Atlas' head. Their saints and household-gods Sweat tears, to show the travails of their city: Crowns fell from holy statues. Ominous birds Defiled the day; and wild beasts were seen,[636] Leaving the woods, lodge in the ...
— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe
... of his Majesty's sloop the Calpe, made his vessel as useful as possible, and kept up a spirited fire on one of the enemy's batteries. I have also to express my approbation of Lieutenant Janvrin, commander of the gun-boats; who, having joined me with intelligence, ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I • Sir John Ross |
