"Blown, all alone, o’er the watery miles; Lost, I was tossed on those grape-laden isles."

"The sea, autumn mildness, islands bathed in light, fine rain spreading a diaphanous veil over the immortal nakedness …"

"That centre was the Mediterranean; which was not so much a piece of water as a world. But it was a world with somethi…"

"At certain periods of the evening and the morning the blue of the Mediterranean surpasses all conception or descripti…"

"Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull’d by the coil of his crystàlli…"

"On the whole I was much disappointed with all after Mentone, until I got to , but there the valley runs up between ve…"

"The Gulf of Genoa itself presents the most exquisite colouring, and has been elegantly styled by a female Traveller, …"

"But in Ukraine, one third are ethnic Russians. Out of forty five million people, in line with the official census, se…"

"While the death toll in the trenches of Western Europe were close to 2 million by the summer of 1915, the exterminati…"

"A strong sense of a common ethnic identity emerged among Greek speakers of the independent city-states of the Aegean …"