Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in IcelandC.B. Norton, 1854 - 334 páginas |
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... told whether these pages were written in the saddle , or on Mount Hekla ; in a tar - painted house in Reykjavik , or in a marble palace in London ; on the deck of a Danish schooner , in a continuous summer day of the Arctic sea , or by ...
... told whether these pages were written in the saddle , or on Mount Hekla ; in a tar - painted house in Reykjavik , or in a marble palace in London ; on the deck of a Danish schooner , in a continuous summer day of the Arctic sea , or by ...
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... told the captain to mix a monster bowl of punch . He was good at it ; the punch was capital , and was soon smoking on the table . Our cannon were iron pieces , not quite heavy enough to knock down the walls of Badajos , but still of ...
... told the captain to mix a monster bowl of punch . He was good at it ; the punch was capital , and was soon smoking on the table . Our cannon were iron pieces , not quite heavy enough to knock down the walls of Badajos , but still of ...
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... me feel savage to see one of these monsters , I want to cut out his heart's blood . Many a good Christian do these villains swallow . The captain told us that one Christmas day when he was in the 26 RAMBLES IN ICELAND .
... me feel savage to see one of these monsters , I want to cut out his heart's blood . Many a good Christian do these villains swallow . The captain told us that one Christmas day when he was in the 26 RAMBLES IN ICELAND .
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... told , that when the Icelanders or Norwegians were about setting out on any expedition of importance they used to have a grand feast . At these banquets , horse - flesh was one of their luxuries . Bards and minstrels would recite poems ...
... told , that when the Icelanders or Norwegians were about setting out on any expedition of importance they used to have a grand feast . At these banquets , horse - flesh was one of their luxuries . Bards and minstrels would recite poems ...
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... told them I should be very happy to have them call at my house when they could make it convenient . Now , some of the uncharitable may be disposed to say that all this ceremony on my part was quite useless . True , I lived thousands of ...
... told them I should be very happy to have them call at my house when they could make it convenient . Now , some of the uncharitable may be disposed to say that all this ceremony on my part was quite useless . True , I lived thousands of ...
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Æsir Althing America appearance Baldur beautiful Bifröst bird boiling called captain Cattegat CHAPTER chasm church clergyman coast color Copenhagen crater Danish Denmark dinner distance earth Edda Elsinore English eruption farm Faroe Faroe Isles feet deep feet high fire fish FREYJA Geyser grass green Greenland ground half heaven Hekla hills horses hot springs hundred Iceland Jokull Jötunheim Jötuns journey lake land lava live Loki look meadows Midgard serpent miles Mount Hekla mountain native nearly never Niflheim northern ocean Odin plain pony pretty Reykjavik ride river rock saddles sailed seemed seen ship side singular Skaptar Jokull sleep smoke Snæfell snow stream sulphur surface Surtur syssel sysselman thing Thingvalla Thor thousand tion took town turf vessels við Vinland volcanic voyages Westmann Islands Yankee
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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...