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Seite 63 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Seite 5 - Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other.
Seite 149 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Seite 106 - Myself, and thee — a peasant of the Alps, Thy humble virtues, hospitable home, And spirit patient, pious, proud and free; Thy self-respect, grafted on innocent thoughts; Thy days of health, and nights of sleep; thy toils, By danger dignified, yet guiltless; hopes Of cheerful old age and a quiet grave, With cross and garland over its green turf, And thy grandchildren's love for epitaph ; This do I see — and then I look within^ — It matters not — my soul was scorch'd already ! C.
Seite 100 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose : And on old Hyems' chin and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Seite 79 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off I...
Seite 61 - Is no concern at all of his, And says— what says he ?— Caw. Thrice happy bird ! I too have seen Much of the vanities of men ; And, sick of having seen 'em, Would cheerfully these limbs resign For such a pair of wings as thine And such a head between 'em.
Seite 101 - And dear that hill that lifts him to the storms. And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to its mother's breast, So the loud tempest and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
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| Titel | Sketches, by a Traveller American Fiction, 1774-1920 Band 1 von Wright American fiction |
| Autor/in | Silas Pinckney Holbrook |
| Verlag | Carter and Hendee, 1830 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 12. Dez. 2005 |
| Länge | 315 Seiten |
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