The Old Identities: Being Sketches and Reminiscences During the First Decade of the Province of Otago, N.Z.Mills, Dick, 1879 - 395 strán (strany) |
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Strana 43 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Strana 74 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Strana 95 - Auspicious HOPE ! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe ; Won by their sweets, in Nature's languid hour, The way-worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower ; There, as the wild bee murmurs on the wing, What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring ! What viewless forms th' folian organ play, And sweep the furrow'd lines of anxious thought away.
Strana 295 - If you had but seen these roads before they were made, You'd have held up your hands, and blessed General Wade!
Strana 333 - ... repose of the widow and her child in the lonely Cumberland glen, Lilias had felt, when she was hurried away in her earliest agony, that thus it was to be for ever. But now the atmosphere of home descended about her. Only the natural successions of time, one generation going and another coming, had changed the inmates of these walls. Steadily here upon its native ground, the old house stood like a stately oak, which had shed its acorns there, autumn after autumn, before human eye was near to see,...
Strana 333 - So wi go on, Lilias, through our different stages. blind to what is to come next, often unconscious of the pleasant places we travel through ; but though we chafe sometimes, and seem to pause and delay, how constantly the stream runs on ! I like it for its humanity — for all the light, and all the darkness, and the winds that touch, and the rains that flood it — for its beginning and for its end. It pleases me to give it life and utterance, and think it human like myself.
Strana 328 - In my recent visit to the south part of the Province of Otago I found gold very generally distributed in the gravel and sand of the Mataura River, at Tuturau ; and, from the geological character of the district, I am of opinion that a remunerative goldfield exists in the neighbourhood.
Strana 60 - Dunedin hereby publicly challenge the Cricket Club at Wellington to a trial of skill, at any point equidistant between the port of Otago and Port Nicholson...
Strana 359 - ME I love bonnie Scotland, and England's blest shore, But I love the new land of the Maori more, Where labour's a blessing, and freedom's supreme, And peace and contentment endears every scene. With its flax, and its fern, and rare cabbage tree, — Its freedom, — its blessings, — New Zealand for me. Like a child of old Ocean, surrounded by sea, Is the land of New Zealand, the home of the free: Its wide-spreading valleys, and cloud-capped hills; Its beautiful rivers, and blythe-sounding rills....
Strana 90 - Before the ink was well dry on their charter of incorporation they had extended the settlement of Wellington, planted the settlements of Wanganui New Plymouth and Nelson, and safely landed on the shores of Cook's Straits five thousand emigrants of a stamp better fitted to subdue the wilderness and rough-hew the foundations of an infant State than any who had left the mother country since the days of the cavalier emigrants of Delaware or the Pilgrim Fathers of Massachusetts.