Sketches, by a TravellerCarter and Hendee, 1830 - 315 Seiten |
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Æsop Alps animal ascended bank beautiful beheld better boat body Boston called Canton captain carried carrion crows character charming China Chinese church covered describe dollars dress Dutch Emperor Emperor of China England English eyes fear feet felucca fine air fish Fuero gave Genoa George Staunton half hand head heart hill honor horse hundred island Italy Japan Japanese lady lake land less live look Macao Mandarin manner master Mazatlan miles Mont Cenis monument mountains Naples never night noble once passed plain pleasure Pompeii poor prince punkah race rich river road rock Roman Rome sail sailor seemed seen seldom ship shore side sometimes stream streets suffer summit tail taste temple things thousand tion town traveller trees Turin valley Vaud village walk wall wine
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Seite 49 - 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 1 - 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 133 - 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 92 - 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 86 - 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 65 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off I...
Seite 49 - 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 87 - 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.