Tales and BalladsW. Crosby, 1884 - 190 pagina's |
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Pagina 26
... imagination one of these peering inquirers , like George Eliot's Jubal , climbs the highest moun- tain to get wide views , and it showed him- Nought but a wider earth ; until one height Showed him the ocean stretched in liquid light ...
... imagination one of these peering inquirers , like George Eliot's Jubal , climbs the highest moun- tain to get wide views , and it showed him- Nought but a wider earth ; until one height Showed him the ocean stretched in liquid light ...
Pagina 27
... imagination trained to search for wonders ? I think not . Columbus was one of those early gazers , and the story of his great career is known to us all . In his early years he cherished a hope that some day the sea would open her ...
... imagination trained to search for wonders ? I think not . Columbus was one of those early gazers , and the story of his great career is known to us all . In his early years he cherished a hope that some day the sea would open her ...
Pagina 35
... imagination . No other land offered equal attractions , and he soon sailed for Darien , leaving Isabella , in whom he fully trusted , in her father's care . A year passed away , and another and another , and still he was in the same ...
... imagination . No other land offered equal attractions , and he soon sailed for Darien , leaving Isabella , in whom he fully trusted , in her father's care . A year passed away , and another and another , and still he was in the same ...
Pagina 39
... imagination of his countrymen was stimulated to the utmost , and De Soto saw that the opportunity that he needed had come to him . He proposed to the great emperor Charles , then the most powerful ruler in Europe , to take command of an ...
... imagination of his countrymen was stimulated to the utmost , and De Soto saw that the opportunity that he needed had come to him . He proposed to the great emperor Charles , then the most powerful ruler in Europe , to take command of an ...
Pagina 61
... imagination to carry us back to the brilliant days when Raleigh was one of the chief ornaments of the famous court of England's manly queen , " as Mr. Lowell calls Elizabeth ? He is himself the first to attract our attention ; a brave ...
... imagination to carry us back to the brilliant days when Raleigh was one of the chief ornaments of the famous court of England's manly queen , " as Mr. Lowell calls Elizabeth ? He is himself the first to attract our attention ; a brave ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 110 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Pagina 138 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Pagina 139 - Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses ; but we will remember the Name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down, and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright. 9 Save, LORD; and hear us, O King of heaven, when we call upon thee.
Pagina 163 - For force of will and vast conceptions; for various knowledge, and quick adaptation of his genius to untried circumstances ; for a sublime magnanimity, that resigned itself to the will of Heaven, and yet triumphed over affliction by energy of purpose and unfaltering hope — he had no superior among his countrymen.
Pagina 80 - Britons, you stay too long: Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you.
Pagina 71 - A dreary place would be this earth> Were there no little people in it: The song of life would lose its mirth, Were there no children to begin it...
Pagina 139 - In the name of the Most High, Mighty, and Redoubted Monarch, Louis, Fourteenth of that name, Most Christian King of France and of Navarre...
Pagina 137 - O tree with royal purple dight ! Elect on whose triumphal breast Those holy limbs should find their rest ! On whose dear arms, so widely flung, The weight of this world's ransom hung ; The price of human kind to pay, And spoil the spoiler of his prey.
Pagina 137 - THE Royal Banners forward go ; The Cross shines forth in mystic glow ; Where He in flesh, our flesh Who made, Our sentence bore, our ransom paid.
Pagina 51 - God's ordinance upon him, even so the vehement persuasion of his friends could nothing avail to divert him from his wilful resolution of going in his frigate; and when he was entreated by the captain, master, and others, his wellwishers in the " Hinde," not to venture, this was his answer — "I will not forsake my little company going homewards, with whom I have passed so many storms and perils.