The Footpath and Highway: Or, Wanderings of an American in Great Britain, in 1851 and '52Lippincott, Grambo, 1853 - 391 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα v
... land from which we have drawn our politi- cal , and most of our social institutions , has been undergoing a quiet but important revolution , the tendency of which has been steadily to favor a closer approximation between the habits ...
... land from which we have drawn our politi- cal , and most of our social institutions , has been undergoing a quiet but important revolution , the tendency of which has been steadily to favor a closer approximation between the habits ...
Σελίδα vi
... land . The songs of his father's fatherland were familiar to his childhood ; the classics and the nobler poems of England were read with avidity in some- what riper years ; and he learned to think , with a feeling amount- ing to awe ...
... land . The songs of his father's fatherland were familiar to his childhood ; the classics and the nobler poems of England were read with avidity in some- what riper years ; and he learned to think , with a feeling amount- ing to awe ...
Σελίδα 13
... land ; but there was now no retreat . A tow - boat came along - side , and as we had a bar to cross it was important that we should have her aid . She soon attached her tough cords to our huge ship ; and then , all things being in readi ...
... land ; but there was now no retreat . A tow - boat came along - side , and as we had a bar to cross it was important that we should have her aid . She soon attached her tough cords to our huge ship ; and then , all things being in readi ...
Σελίδα 16
... land was gone . I watched the receding line of beach until it faded from the sight into the vast body of waters around , and felt as if Hope and Regret , like two sisters , had parted at my side the one to cheer me on the long journey ...
... land was gone . I watched the receding line of beach until it faded from the sight into the vast body of waters around , and felt as if Hope and Regret , like two sisters , had parted at my side the one to cheer me on the long journey ...
Σελίδα 17
... lands- men began to grow serious and uneasy , and many of them retired at an early hour , not because they were sea - sick , but because weariness had overtaken them . The first few days out are usually the most disagreeable of a voyage ...
... lands- men began to grow serious and uneasy , and many of them retired at an early hour , not because they were sea - sick , but because weariness had overtaken them . The first few days out are usually the most disagreeable of a voyage ...
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Σελίδα 177 - Row, vassals, row, for the pride of the Highlands ! Stretch to your oars, for the evergreen Pine...
Σελίδα 248 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Σελίδα 88 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Σελίδα 109 - JOHN NEWTON, CLERK, Once an infidel and libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, pardoned, And appointed to preach the faith he Had long laboured to destroy, Near 16 years at Olney in Bucks ; And — years in this church.
Σελίδα 297 - E'en from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move : And, if so fair, from vanity as free, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love, Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas, e'en to thee,) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids "the pure in heart behold their God.
Σελίδα 71 - twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape...
Σελίδα 191 - Now, Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Σελίδα 297 - Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love— Tell them...
Σελίδα 88 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Σελίδα 71 - Another ! even now she loved another ; And on the summit of that hill she stood Looking afar , if yet her lover's steed Kept pace with her expectancy , and flew.