Prue and IDix, Edwards & Company, 1856 - 214 páginas |
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Alchemist answered asked Aurelia beauty book-keeper Bourne Bourne's calm castles in Spain cousin the curate cravat Crimea dear deck dine dinner dream dress East Indiaman Eldorado eyes face faded fair family portraits fancy feel flash Flora flowers FLYING DUTCHMAN gazed gentle GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS girl glance glasses going grace grandfather Titbottom grandmother hair hand happy hear heard heart hope Iliad Italy knew Kubla Khan Lady large aunt leaning lived lost lover magic mist morning never odor passed pensive pleasant Preciosa Prue's remember replied sails Sculpin seemed seen ship shore silence sitting slowly smile soft sometimes Spanish Spanish Armada spectacles Staten Island stood story strange stroll suddenly summer suppose sure sweet tacles tears tell thing thought tropical trowsers twilight voice voyage waistcoat walk warm watched wife woman wonder young friend youth
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Página 63 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
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Página 31 - It gives me a feeling of pardonable importance, as a proprietor, that they are visible, to my eyes at least, from any part of the world in which I chance to be. In my long voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to India (the only voyage I ever made, when I was a boy and a supercargo), if I fell home-sick, or sank into a reverie of all the pleasant homes I had left behind, I had but to wait until sunset, and then looking toward the west, I beheld my clustering pinnacles and towers brightly burnished...
Página 44 - My dear sir," answered he wearily, "I have been trying all my life to discover it; but none of my ships have ever been there — none of my captains have any report to make. They bring me, as they brought my father, gold dust from Guinea; ivory, pearls, and precious stones, from every part of the earth; but not a fruit, not a solitary flower, from one of my castles in Spain. I have sent clerks, agents, and travellers...
Página 36 - I certainly do, about my castles in Spain. The sun always shines upon them. They stand lofty and fair in a luminous, golden atmosphere, a little hazy and dreamy, perhaps, like the Indian summer, but in which no gales blow and there are no tempests. All the sublime mountains, and beautiful valleys, and soft landscape, that I have not yet seen, are to be found in the grounds.
Página 49 - And, so saying, Titbottom lay back upon the ground, and making a spy-glass of his hand, surveyed the landscape through it. This was a marvellous book-keeper of more than sixty! "I know another man who lived in his Spanish castle for two months, and then was tumbled out head first. That was young Stunning who married old Buhl's daughter. She was all smiles, and mamma was all sugar, and...
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Página 136 - And yet—and yet," said Titbottom, after a pause, '' I am not sure that I thank my grandfather." Prue had long since laid away her work, and had heard every word of the story. I saw that the dear woman had yet one question to ask, and had been earnestly hoping to hear something that would spare her the necessity of asking. But Titbottom had resumed his usual tone, after the momentary excitement, and made no further allusion to himself. We all sat silently ; Titbottom's eyes fastened musingly upon...