Prairiedom: Rambles and Scrambles in Texas Or New EstremaduraPaine & Burgess, 1845 - 166 páginas Dr. Page's tour of Texas in 1839. |
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Prairiedom: Rambles and Scrambles in Texas Or New Estremadura Frederic Benjamin Page Sin vista previa disponible - 1845 |
Prairiedom: Rambles and Scrambles in Texas Or New Estrémadura (Classic Reprint) Frederic Benjamin Page Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Prairiedom: Rambles and Scrambles in Texas Or New Estrémadura Frederic Benjamin Page Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Página 117 - Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land: What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand!
Página 68 - A noble race ! but they are gone, With their old forests wide and deep, And we have built our homes upon Fields where their generations sleep.
Página 129 - Health exalts The whole creation round. Contentment walks The sunny glade, and feels an inward bliss Spring o'er his mind, beyond the power of kings To purchase.
Página 1 - Corvino's House] Enter SIR POLITICK WOULD-BE, and PEREGRINE Sir P. Sir, to a wise man, all the world's his soil: It is not Italy, nor France, nor Europe, That must bound me, if my fates call me forth. Yet, I protest, it is no salt desire Of seeing countries, shifting a religion, Nor any disaffection to the state Where I was bred, and unto which I owe My dearest plots, hath brought me out ; much less, That idle, antique, stale, gray-headed project Of knowing men's minds and manners, with Ulysses!
Página 18 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love . Where friendship...
Página 166 - Who toss the golden and the flame-like flowers, And pass the prairie-hawk that, poised on high, Flaps his broad wings, yet moves not, ye have played Among the palms of Mexico and vines Of Texas, and have crisped the limpid brooks That from the fountains of Sonora glide Into the calm Pacific: have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this?
Página 159 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, the garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even...
Página 87 - ... opulent cities ; — in swelling its commercial marine ; — in securing its political supremacy; — and in enlarging, in all respects, its prosperity, power, and glory. Nor will they seek to compute the pecuniary results which this vast and ever increasing stream of inland trade, flowing through our territory for all future time, will produce in augmenting the wealth of its commercial metropolis. The history of Venice, in its palmiest days, stretching her long line of islands and colonies far...