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Page 84
... declivity of nearly three thousand feet , by which we reach the banks of the Merced , we are six miles from the hotel ; and every rod of the ride awakens wonder , awe , and a solemn . THE HIGHEST CATARACT IN THE WORLD . 85 joy .
... declivity of nearly three thousand feet , by which we reach the banks of the Merced , we are six miles from the hotel ; and every rod of the ride awakens wonder , awe , and a solemn . THE HIGHEST CATARACT IN THE WORLD . 85 joy .
Page 112
... wonder how that came to pass . Ba . I had the bad luck not to please you , alas Me . Perhaps there was something distracted Or else the man spoiled it , so badly he read . But here is my ballad , concerning which I Ba . The days of the ...
... wonder how that came to pass . Ba . I had the bad luck not to please you , alas Me . Perhaps there was something distracted Or else the man spoiled it , so badly he read . But here is my ballad , concerning which I Ba . The days of the ...
Page 124
... wonder , " said Foote ; " you are forever murdering it . " 10. THE QUAKER'S RETORT . --A Quaker and a hot- headed youth were , on a recent occasion , quarreling in the street . The man with the broad - brimmed hat kept his temper most ...
... wonder , " said Foote ; " you are forever murdering it . " 10. THE QUAKER'S RETORT . --A Quaker and a hot- headed youth were , on a recent occasion , quarreling in the street . The man with the broad - brimmed hat kept his temper most ...
Page 132
... wonder that his head was turned . He determined to play the man , and to spend his money in independ- ent traveler's style . 14. Accordingly , instead of pushing directly for home , he halted for the night at the little town of Ardagh ...
... wonder that his head was turned . He determined to play the man , and to spend his money in independ- ent traveler's style . 14. Accordingly , instead of pushing directly for home , he halted for the night at the little town of Ardagh ...
Page 160
... wonder at all I saw and all I heard . What is to be compared with it ? I found New York grown up to almost double its former size , with the air of a great capital , instead of a mere flourishing commercial town , as I had known it . 2 ...
... wonder at all I saw and all I heard . What is to be compared with it ? I found New York grown up to almost double its former size , with the air of a great capital , instead of a mere flourishing commercial town , as I had known it . 2 ...
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Page 131 - The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away; Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and shewed how fields were won.
Page 267 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 186 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 330 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 328 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 281 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 333 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 331 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 316 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff; Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Page 186 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.