Hesperos: Or, Travels in the West, Zväzok 1J.W. Parker, 1850 |
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Strana 248 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Strana 248 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Strana 233 - America is a wonderful country, endowed by the Omnipotent with natural advantages which no other can boast of; and the mind can hardly calculate upon the degree of perfection and power to which, whether the States are eventually separated or not, it may in the course of two centuries arrive. At present all is energy and enterprise; every thing is in a state of transition, but of rapid improvement —so rapid, indeed, that those who would describe America now would have to correct all in the short...
Strana 106 - ... relapsed into his reverie. The following was pronounced considerably better : My thrifty spouse, her taste to please, With rival dames at auctions vies; She doats on every thing she sees; And every thing she doats on buys. I, with her taste, am quite enchanted : Such costly wares, so wisely sought ! Bought because they may be wanted : Wanted, because they may be bought.
Strana 13 - It changed, of course; a heavenly chameleon, The airy child of vapour and the sun, Brought forth in purple, cradled in vermilion, Baptized in molten gold, and swathed in dun, Glittering like crescents o'er a Turk's pavilion, And blending every colour into one, Just like a black eye in a recent scuffle (For sometimes we must box without the muffle).
Strana 233 - At present all is energy and enterprise ; everything is in a rapid state of transition, but of rapid improvement — so rapid, indeed, that those who would describe America now, would have to correct all in the short space of ten years ; for ten years in America is almost equal to a century in the old continent.
Strana 87 - We had not proceeded more than a quarter of a mile, when we began to suspect that the ' first-rate' road existed only in the imagination of the livery- stable keeper.
Strana 48 - ... seen a little fellow of ten years old, sent off alone and at night, in a high carriage, with a pair of horses to drive, and a difficult commission to execute some thirty miles off. No one (not even his mother) seemed to think the undertaking a dangerous one, and as to the necessity of any grown-up person being sent to take care of the youthful charioteer, they would have laughed at the idea. He was the son of our host, and the smartest little Yankee I ever saw. It was some time before I became...
Strana 281 - We could not look into a warehouse in the street without being agonized by the sight of thousands of dead corpses, heaped and piled upon one another, up to the ceiling — all singed and white, and cold looking.
Strana 280 - Alive and dead, whole and divided into portions, their outsides and their insides, their grunts and their squeals, meet you at every moment ; and thus, in some shape or other, you fall in with swine and swine's flesh throughout the livelong day.