The Crayon PapersJ. B. Aleden, 1886 - 201 Seiten |
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Abdalasis Abderahman adventurers Agueybana Alcalde Alonzo de Ojeda ancient Andalusia Arab arms army arrived Bachelor Enciso bank battle beautiful beheld Bishop brigantines cacique caliph canoes captives caravel cavaliers Ceuta CHAPTER Christian coast Codro Columbus command companions Count Julian Darien Diego Columbus discovery Don Roderick enemy enterprise expedition eyes father fortune Francisco Pizarro French gave gold Gondrecourt governor Gulf of Paria hand heard heart Hispaniola horse Indians inhabitants island Juan Ponce kind king land length Moguer Moslem mountains Muza natives Nicuesa night Oppas Pedrarias Pelistes Pinzon possession province provisions received remained renegado replied river royal Rupelmonde sail sallied San Domingo savages sent Seville ships shore soldier soon sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit sword Taric thee thou thought tion took tower troops Vasco Nuñez Vergara veteran village voyage warriors wild Witiza wounded young youth
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Seite 71 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice, Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Seite 10 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 118 - No cruel enemy to dread ; nothing to give them disquietude, but the gradual encroachments of the white people. Thus contented and undisturbed, they appear as blithe and free as the birds of the air, and like them as volatile and active, tuneful and vociferous. The visage, action, and deportment of the...
Seite 163 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages ; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking-houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty. In descending one of our great western rivers in a steamboat, I met with two worthies from one of these villages, who had been on a distant excursion,...
Seite 97 - It is not easy to appreciate the delight of Mr. Wilde and his coadjutors at this triumphant result of their researches; nor the sensation produced, not merely in Florence but throughout Italy, by this discovery of a veritable portrait of Dante, in the prime of his days. It was some such sensation as would be produced in England by the sudden discovery of a perfectly well authenticated likeness of Shakspeare; with a difference in intensity proportioned to the superior sensitiveness of the Italians.