The white houses and belvedere started up against the blue, like the mosques and minarets of Stamboul, and, soaring high behind the bow, was the great pillar of spray, glancing and flashing like an obelisk of diamonds — and it was then I began, as many... My Diary in America in the Midst of War - Pagina 175de George Augustus Sala - 1865 - 434 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| 740 pagini
...blue, and green, and orange, and violet. The white houses and belvedere started up against the blue, like the mosques and minarets of Stamboul, and, soaring...begun perchance, to wonder at and to love Niagara." It is rumoured that Sala, having neglected to supply regular instalments of his story of " Quite Alone"... | |
| 1865 - 740 pagini
...and violet. The white houses and belvedere started up against the blue, like the mosques and minareU of Stamboul, and, soaring high behind the bow, was...begun perchance, to wonder at and to love Niagara." It is rumoured that Sala, having neglected to supply regular instalments of his story of " Quite Alone"... | |
| George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 534 pagini
...against the nzuro like tho mosques and minarets of Stamboul ; and, soaring high behindtheBow.waslhegreat pillar of spray, glancing and flashing like an obelisk...begun, perchance, to wonder at and to love Niagara. MY DRIVER. I TVAS enabled to secure a little ramshackle " onehorse shay " of a curricle, with a horse... | |
| George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 552 pagini
...the azure like the mosques and minarets of Stamboul; and, soaring high behind the Bow, was thegreat pillar of spray, glancing and flashing like an obelisk...of diamonds. And it was then I began, as many men hare begun, perchance, to wonder at and to love Niagara. MY DRIVER. I WAS enabled to secure a little... | |
| Gleanings - 1882 - 794 pagini
...glistened. The boulders of ice sparkled like gems. The snow was all bathed in iris tints — crimson, and yellow, and blue, and green, and orange, and violet...begun, perchance, to wonder at and to love Niagara. NlAGAKA THE SONG OF THE SHIET.* [ВуТнохдз HOOD.] ITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy... | |
| 1890 - 86 pagini
...mosques and minarets of Stamboul, and soaring high behind the bow was the great pillar of spray, gleaming and flashing like an obelisk of diamonds. And it was then I began, as many more have begun perchance, to wonder at and love Niagara. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. The walk about Goat... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1865 - 580 pagini
...blue, and green, and orange, and violet. The white houses and belvedere started up against the nzure like the mosques and minarets of Stamboul, and, soaring...begun, perchance, to wonder at and to love Niagara !' — Vol. i., p. 177. Next follows the episode of a goose which gazed at the Falls, and hissed at... | |
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