My Travels: Visits to Lands Far and Near, European, British, American and CanadianHunter, Rose Company, 1900 - 320 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... mountain tops in my anxiety to reach the place of my birth . I must have done some things absently , surely , for I found myself being greeted on the highroad by a stray gardener , who was wending his way to market . He said " Waes , my ...
... mountain tops in my anxiety to reach the place of my birth . I must have done some things absently , surely , for I found myself being greeted on the highroad by a stray gardener , who was wending his way to market . He said " Waes , my ...
Pagina 22
... mountain - side , and scur- ried away across the angry waters of the Forth . If Dunfermline has played no unimportant part in the history of manufactures in Scotland , none the less is it an historic spot as that where lies bur- ied the ...
... mountain - side , and scur- ried away across the angry waters of the Forth . If Dunfermline has played no unimportant part in the history of manufactures in Scotland , none the less is it an historic spot as that where lies bur- ied the ...
Pagina 53
... mountain , hillside or glen speaks to you , and tells to you some part of her secret . I do not mean to convey the impression that Highland scenery is not attractive , but only to say that it is much more than merely attractive . One ...
... mountain , hillside or glen speaks to you , and tells to you some part of her secret . I do not mean to convey the impression that Highland scenery is not attractive , but only to say that it is much more than merely attractive . One ...
Pagina 54
... mountains pre- vails , the lake is felt to belong to them , to be sub- ject to their will , and that is capricious . Sometimes they blacken it when it is brightest , and sometimes when its gloom is like that of the grave , as if at ...
... mountains pre- vails , the lake is felt to belong to them , to be sub- ject to their will , and that is capricious . Sometimes they blacken it when it is brightest , and sometimes when its gloom is like that of the grave , as if at ...
Pagina 56
... mountain fastnesses and down its romantic glens , who mingle freely with the people , and learns what they mean when they speak of " The Macfarlanes ' Lantern " while he is talking of the moon , who hears at first hand the story of the ...
... mountain fastnesses and down its romantic glens , who mingle freely with the people , and learns what they mean when they speak of " The Macfarlanes ' Lantern " while he is talking of the moon , who hears at first hand the story of the ...
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My Travels: Visits to Lands Far and Near. European, British, American and ... Robert Shields Volledige weergave - 1906 |
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Pagina 15 - And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind!
Pagina 124 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Pagina 92 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Pagina 264 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Pagina 106 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Pagina 68 - In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Pagina 116 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Pagina 8 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Pagina 116 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pagina 142 - WHERE is the true man's fatherland ? Is it where he by chance is born ? Doth not the yearning spirit scorn In such scant borders to be spanned ? Oh yes ! his fatherland must be As the blue heaven wide and free ! Is it alone where freedom is, Where God is God and man is man? Doth he not claim a broader span For the soul's love of home than this...