Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in IcelandC.B. Norton, 1854 - 334 páginas |
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... clear to the water's edge , showed a poor country for cultivation . The most dis- tant were covered with snow , but the nearest were all of that deep brown tint that reveals a scanty vegetation . Some- times the strip of green meadow ...
... clear to the water's edge , showed a poor country for cultivation . The most dis- tant were covered with snow , but the nearest were all of that deep brown tint that reveals a scanty vegetation . Some- times the strip of green meadow ...
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... clear to the surface of the water , gives one " blow " and instantly goes under . He generally rises again in one or two minutes , but is sometimes under five minutes . Once as I sat on the bowsprit watching two or three that were ...
... clear to the surface of the water , gives one " blow " and instantly goes under . He generally rises again in one or two minutes , but is sometimes under five minutes . Once as I sat on the bowsprit watching two or three that were ...
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... clear down , would have been decided to be , on that ship , a thorough bore . Though they went the " whole hog " -the entire animal in the floral line - that day , they did not sleep or feast on roses all the voyage . They did not like ...
... clear down , would have been decided to be , on that ship , a thorough bore . Though they went the " whole hog " -the entire animal in the floral line - that day , they did not sleep or feast on roses all the voyage . They did not like ...
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... clear through them . Not so the black bread . That keeps much better than wheaten bread . The mould walks into it gradually however , but thoroughly . At first there appeared a green coat , on the side that stood next to another loaf in ...
... clear through them . Not so the black bread . That keeps much better than wheaten bread . The mould walks into it gradually however , but thoroughly . At first there appeared a green coat , on the side that stood next to another loaf in ...
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... clearly authenticated historical facts in the history of the world . It takes nothing from the merits and reputation of Colum- bus . And what if it did ? The reader of history is a seeker after truth , and most certainly the writer of ...
... clearly authenticated historical facts in the history of the world . It takes nothing from the merits and reputation of Colum- bus . And what if it did ? The reader of history is a seeker after truth , and most certainly the writer of ...
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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...