Mercedes of Castille: Or, The Voyage to CathayAppleton, 1873 - 530 pages |
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Mercedes of Castille: Or the Voyage to Cathay (Classic Reprint) James Fenimore Cooper No preview available - 2017 |
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admiral adventurers answered appeared Aragon Archbishop aught beauty cacique caravel Castile Castilian Cathay Christian Christoval Columbus dilla discourse Don Christopher Don Fernando Don Luis Doņa Beatriz Doņa Isabella Doņa Mercedes Dost thou doth doubt duty earth enterprise exclaimed eyes fancied favor feelings felucca Ferdinand Genoese girl Guacanagari hath heart heaven hero holy honor hope hour Isabella of Castile island Juan Perez king King of Aragon lady land leagues Llera look Luis de Bobadilla manner Marchioness mariners Martin Alonzo matter Mattinao means mind mistress Moguer navigator never night Niņa noble ocean Ozema Palos passed Pedro Pepe Pinta Pinzon poop princess queen Queen of Castile returned royal sail Sancho Santa Maria seamen seemeth seen Seņor Almirante Seņor Colon Seņor Don Almirante ship smiling sovereigns Spain thee thine thou art thou hast thou wilt thought tion truth vessels voyage wife wind young youth
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Page 369 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 28 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!
Page 339 - We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we worship Thee, we glorify Thee, we give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory, O LORD GOD, heavenly KING, GOD the FATHER Almighty.
Page 225 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 282 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 124 - Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die.
Page vii - I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'Tis less of earth than heaven.
Page 498 - ... glide along ; Your eye is like the star of eve, And sweet your voice as seraph's song. Yet not your heavenly beauty gives This heart with passion soft to glow : Within your soul a voice there lives ! It bids you hear the tale of woe. When sinking low the sufferer wan Beholds no hand outstretch'd to save, Fair as the bosom of the swan That rises graceful o'er the wave, I've seen your breast with pity heave, And therefore love I you, sweet Genevieve!
Page 73 - Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess The might, the majesty of Loveliness...