Five years' residence in the Canadas: including a tour through part of the United States of America, Volumen 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824 |
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... shores of his native country , as they recede from his sight in majestic pride , and with unpitying rapidity . I reflected that , in all human probability , I had beheld for the last time the " scenes of my childhood ; " and the very ...
... shores of his native country , as they recede from his sight in majestic pride , and with unpitying rapidity . I reflected that , in all human probability , I had beheld for the last time the " scenes of my childhood ; " and the very ...
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... shore ; and , looking up towards heaven , implored its Eternal King to pour down his choicest blessings on the care - worn inhabitants of my native isle . May dire necessity never more constrain a son " of Erin to abandon her emerald shores ...
... shore ; and , looking up towards heaven , implored its Eternal King to pour down his choicest blessings on the care - worn inhabitants of my native isle . May dire necessity never more constrain a son " of Erin to abandon her emerald shores ...
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... shores of which many a brave tar has concluded the voyage of life . This unpropitious island , although 125 miles long and 28 miles broad , has not , in its whole extent , a bay or harbour sufficiently safe to afford shelter for a ...
... shores of which many a brave tar has concluded the voyage of life . This unpropitious island , although 125 miles long and 28 miles broad , has not , in its whole extent , a bay or harbour sufficiently safe to afford shelter for a ...
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... shores on each side of the Gulph of St. Law- rence exhibit a most striking picture , and fully realise to the beholder the many descriptions given us by poets and novelists . Lofty mountains , covered with stunted trees , are ...
... shores on each side of the Gulph of St. Law- rence exhibit a most striking picture , and fully realise to the beholder the many descriptions given us by poets and novelists . Lofty mountains , covered with stunted trees , are ...
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... shore , we proceeded to the house of a Canadian pilot , for the purpose of soliciting per- mission to inter another of those little ones in whose burial we were then daily employed . We knocked at the door , which was immediately opened ...
... shore , we proceeded to the house of a Canadian pilot , for the purpose of soliciting per- mission to inter another of those little ones in whose burial we were then daily employed . We knocked at the door , which was immediately opened ...
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Página 85 - Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Página 298 - Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Página 85 - ... past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl. But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon.
Página 4 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes...
Página 182 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 147 - Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept All by the name of dogs : the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed, whereby he does receive Particular addition...
Página 388 - And whereas We are desirous, upon all Occasions, to testify Our Royal Sense and Approbation of the Conduct and Bravery of the Officers and Soldiers of Our Armies, and to reward the same...
Página 117 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 137 - When two persons stand very near to each other, they can mutually hear their ordinary conversation ; when removed to a small distance, they are obliged to halloo ; and, when removed a little farther, cannot be heard at all. Every other sound is drowned in the tempest of noise made by the water, and all else in the regions of nature appears to be dumb. This noise is a vast thunder, filling the heavens, shaking the earth, and leaving the mind, although perfectly conscious of safety, and affected with...