Their Wedding JourneyJ. R. Osgood, 1872 - 287 Seiten |
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Seite 187 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Seite 67 - Ah ! poor Real Life, which I love," he wrote in his first novel, " can I make others share the delight I find in thy foolish and insipid face?
Seite 23 - Quickening the marble breast of Art, — Were not more strange, to one who first Upon its ghostly silence burst, Than this vast quiet, where the tide Of Life, upheaved on either side, Hangs trembling, ready soon to beat With human waves the Morning Street!
Seite 51 - Then, in the order of their coming, they issued through another door upon the side street, each, as he disappeared, turning his face half round, and casting a casual glance upon a little group near another counter. The group was of a very patient, half-frightened, halfpuzzled looking gentleman who sat perfectly still on a stool, and of a lady who stood beside him, rubbing all over his head a handkerchief full of pounded ice, and easing one hand with the other when the first became tired. Basil drank...
Seite 187 - Now, this is a little too much, Isabel. You know we never mentioned the matter till this moment." "It's the same as a promise, your not saying you wouldn't. But I don't ask you to keep your word. / don't want to go round the mountain. I'd much rather go to the hotel. I'm tired." "Very well, then, Isabel, I'll leave you at the hotel.
Seite 187 - I knew you'd come back," she said. " So did I," he answered. " I am much too good and noble to sacrifice my preference to my duty." " I didn't care particularly for the two horses, Basil," she said, as they descended to the barouche. " It was your refusing them that hurt me." " And I didn't want the one-horse carriage. It was your insisting so that provoked me.
Seite 151 - ... of baking pine boards, and it was not much cooler out on the rocks upon which the party issued, descending and descending by repeated and desultory flights of steps, till at last they stood upon a huge fragment of stone right abreast of the rapids. Yet it was a magnificent sight, and for a moment none of them were sorry to have come. The surges did not look like the gigantic ripples on a river's course as they were, but like a procession of ocean billows; they arose far aloft in vast bulks of...
Seite 149 - Erie, and the multitude of smaller lakes, all pour their floods, where they swirl in dreadful vortices, with resistless under-currents boiling beneath the surface of that mighty eddy. Abruptly from this scene of secret power, so different from the thunderous splendors of the cataract itself, rise lofty cliffs on every side, to a height of two hundred feet, clothed from the water's edge almost to their crests with dark cedars. Noiselessly, so far as your senses perceive, the lakes steal out of the...
Seite 92 - Some things can be done as well as others,' and proved it by jumping over Niagara Falls twice ? Spurred on by this belief, he attempted the leap of the Genesee Falls. The leap was easy enough, but the coming up again was another matter. He failed in that. It was the one thing that could not be done as well as others.
Seite 208 - rather have written than beat the French to-morrow;" but it aches for the defeated general, who, hurt to death, answered, when told how brief his time was, " So much the better ; then I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.