Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in IcelandC.B. Norton, 1854 - 334 páginas |
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... HIS GENIUS , RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER , REMEMBRANCE OF HIS FRIENDSHIP AND THE MANY VALUABLE HOURS SPENT IN HIS SOCIETY , THIS UNPRETENDING VOLUME Es Afectionately INSCRIBED . PREFACE , CONTENTS . XIII CHAPTER I. The Voyage - 40361-24.
... HIS GENIUS , RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER , REMEMBRANCE OF HIS FRIENDSHIP AND THE MANY VALUABLE HOURS SPENT IN HIS SOCIETY , THIS UNPRETENDING VOLUME Es Afectionately INSCRIBED . PREFACE , CONTENTS . XIII CHAPTER I. The Voyage - 40361-24.
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... CHAPTER VI . Etymology of Icelandic Words - Similarity of the Icelandic and English - The Iceland Numerals - Counting - Geographical Terms , CHAPTER VII . 85-88 Journeying to the Eastward - A Forest - Blacksmithing - Game- Birds - The ...
... CHAPTER VI . Etymology of Icelandic Words - Similarity of the Icelandic and English - The Iceland Numerals - Counting - Geographical Terms , CHAPTER VII . 85-88 Journeying to the Eastward - A Forest - Blacksmithing - Game- Birds - The ...
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... CHAPTER II . · Page 17-32 Iceland , its Discovery and Settlement - Discovery and Settlement of Greenland and North America by the Icelanders - Ericsson -Trading and Skirmishing between the Icelanders and the North American Indians ...
... CHAPTER II . · Page 17-32 Iceland , its Discovery and Settlement - Discovery and Settlement of Greenland and North America by the Icelanders - Ericsson -Trading and Skirmishing between the Icelanders and the North American Indians ...
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... CHAPTER VI . Etymology of Icelandic Words - Similarity of the Icelandic and English - The Iceland Numerals - Counting - Geographical Terms , CHAPTER VII . 85-88 Journeying to the Eastward - A Forest - Blacksmithing - Game- Birds - The ...
... CHAPTER VI . Etymology of Icelandic Words - Similarity of the Icelandic and English - The Iceland Numerals - Counting - Geographical Terms , CHAPTER VII . 85-88 Journeying to the Eastward - A Forest - Blacksmithing - Game- Birds - The ...
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... CHAPTER IX . Journey towards Mount Hekla - Iceland Rivers - Haying - An Ice- land Meadow - How the Horses Live - Beautiful Birds - The Pochard - Playing Mazeppa - Swimming a River Horseback- -A Hospitable Icelander - Herre Johann Briem ...
... CHAPTER IX . Journey towards Mount Hekla - Iceland Rivers - Haying - An Ice- land Meadow - How the Horses Live - Beautiful Birds - The Pochard - Playing Mazeppa - Swimming a River Horseback- -A Hospitable Icelander - Herre Johann Briem ...
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Página 169 - 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 279 - See the front o' battle lour: See approach proud Edward's power, — Chains and slaverie! 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...
Página 276 - Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 279 - Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die...
Página 277 - Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness; say where greatness lies. Where, but among the heroes and the wise?
Página 74 - 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 134 - 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 57 - 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 196 - Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.
Página 29 - There's not one atom of yon earth But once was living man; Nor the minutest drop of rain, That hangeth in its thinnest cloud, But flowed in human veins...