Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in IcelandLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 - 252 páginas |
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... head , had a slight rim round it , and I should think was about two inches and a half in diameter . This animal , as near as I could judge , was between sixty and seventy feet in length . The top of his head and shoulders was broad and ...
... head , had a slight rim round it , and I should think was about two inches and a half in diameter . This animal , as near as I could judge , was between sixty and seventy feet in length . The top of his head and shoulders was broad and ...
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... head . I scraped the paint off my hat , and the mate and I set to work to clean my coat . After scrubbing it an hour or two , we fastened a rope to it , and , throw- ing it overboard , let it drag in the sea a few hours . The soap ...
... head . I scraped the paint off my hat , and the mate and I set to work to clean my coat . After scrubbing it an hour or two , we fastened a rope to it , and , throw- ing it overboard , let it drag in the sea a few hours . The soap ...
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... head a sort of brownish yellow . A word more about these birds , and some others , hereafter . South - west of the Meal sack a few miles , is another singular island called " The Grenadier . ” It is a most striking looking object ...
... head a sort of brownish yellow . A word more about these birds , and some others , hereafter . South - west of the Meal sack a few miles , is another singular island called " The Grenadier . ” It is a most striking looking object ...
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... heads , and were greatly delighted with its ornamen- tal appearance . Finally the red cloth grew scarce , and then the Indians gave their furs for soup and other eatables ; and thus - to use the words of an Iceland historian , they ...
... heads , and were greatly delighted with its ornamen- tal appearance . Finally the red cloth grew scarce , and then the Indians gave their furs for soup and other eatables ; and thus - to use the words of an Iceland historian , they ...
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... head of the state , without a cabinet or advisers . There is a treasurer- —or landfoged , as he is termed - who is also appointed by the crown , and receives a salary of 2000 rixdollars a year . The public funds are kept in an iron ...
... head of the state , without a cabinet or advisers . There is a treasurer- —or landfoged , as he is termed - who is also appointed by the crown , and receives a salary of 2000 rixdollars a year . The public funds are kept in an iron ...
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Página 218 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him on wi
Página 49 - 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.
Página 122 - He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat ; With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought...
Página 194 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 103 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Página 131 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will — Hor.: That is most certain.
Página 193 - Here she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation, her knife ; Delay, her man ; Slowness, her maid ; Precipice, her threshold ; Care, her bed ; and Burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. The one half of her body is livid, the other half the colour of human flesh.
Página 114 - I've wander'd o'er, Clombe many a crag, cross'd many a moor, But, by my halidome, A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam.
Página 36 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Página 215 - Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, 5 Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, did'st inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, Tn the beginning how the heavens and e,arth Rose out of chaos...