Tales and BalladsW. Crosby, 1884 - 190 pagini |
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Pagina 11
... vessel . Poor Anne was overcome with remorse and fright , and , I doubt not , wished a thousand times that she had never run away from her home . After two weeks of these terrible frights and fears , the seamen joyfully saw land . Birds ...
... vessel . Poor Anne was overcome with remorse and fright , and , I doubt not , wished a thousand times that she had never run away from her home . After two weeks of these terrible frights and fears , the seamen joyfully saw land . Birds ...
Pagina 14
... vessel all the way around it . Three hundred years before the birth of Christ , a wise astronomer in Egypt , which was the learned land in that age , after careful study , had made up his mind that the world was round , but for ages ...
... vessel all the way around it . Three hundred years before the birth of Christ , a wise astronomer in Egypt , which was the learned land in that age , after careful study , had made up his mind that the world was round , but for ages ...
Pagina 15
... was one hundred miles in circuit , built , like Venice , on islands , and had magnificent bridges , so lofty that the greatest vessels could go under them with no difficulty . The greatest wonder that Marco Polo THE MYSTERIOUS ISLANDS . 15.
... was one hundred miles in circuit , built , like Venice , on islands , and had magnificent bridges , so lofty that the greatest vessels could go under them with no difficulty . The greatest wonder that Marco Polo THE MYSTERIOUS ISLANDS . 15.
Pagina 20
... vessels , and ended by allowing them to drift about in the wide and , to them , mysterious Atlantic . Like the misguided Anne and Robert , they were driven hither and thither day after day until they landed upon another island . There ...
... vessels , and ended by allowing them to drift about in the wide and , to them , mysterious Atlantic . Like the misguided Anne and Robert , they were driven hither and thither day after day until they landed upon another island . There ...
Pagina 25
... vessel into the dashing surf , and disappear in the mists of the distance , determined to do what he can to solve the mystery of the sea . Among the gazers walk those who carry in their hands books telling the stories of the travels of ...
... vessel into the dashing surf , and disappear in the mists of the distance , determined to do what he can to solve the mystery of the sea . Among the gazers walk those who carry in their hands books telling the stories of the travels of ...
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Pagina 110 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Pagina 138 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Pagina 139 - Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses ; but we will remember the Name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down, and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright. 9 Save, LORD; and hear us, O King of heaven, when we call upon thee.
Pagina 163 - For force of will and vast conceptions; for various knowledge, and quick adaptation of his genius to untried circumstances ; for a sublime magnanimity, that resigned itself to the will of Heaven, and yet triumphed over affliction by energy of purpose and unfaltering hope — he had no superior among his countrymen.
Pagina 80 - Britons, you stay too long: Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you.
Pagina 71 - A dreary place would be this earth> Were there no little people in it: The song of life would lose its mirth, Were there no children to begin it...
Pagina 139 - In the name of the Most High, Mighty, and Redoubted Monarch, Louis, Fourteenth of that name, Most Christian King of France and of Navarre...
Pagina 137 - O tree with royal purple dight ! Elect on whose triumphal breast Those holy limbs should find their rest ! On whose dear arms, so widely flung, The weight of this world's ransom hung ; The price of human kind to pay, And spoil the spoiler of his prey.
Pagina 137 - THE Royal Banners forward go ; The Cross shines forth in mystic glow ; Where He in flesh, our flesh Who made, Our sentence bore, our ransom paid.
Pagina 51 - God's ordinance upon him, even so the vehement persuasion of his friends could nothing avail to divert him from his wilful resolution of going in his frigate; and when he was entreated by the captain, master, and others, his wellwishers in the " Hinde," not to venture, this was his answer — "I will not forsake my little company going homewards, with whom I have passed so many storms and perils.