Five years' residence in the Canadas: including a tour through part of the United States of America, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824 |
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... distance between us , you could not be duly apprised . Some of you , I might have thought , had disregarded this request , and had most opportunely arrived to impede my depar- ture ; but , alas ! it was like a passing dream , and ...
... distance between us , you could not be duly apprised . Some of you , I might have thought , had disregarded this request , and had most opportunely arrived to impede my depar- ture ; but , alas ! it was like a passing dream , and ...
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... eggs of domestic fowls . The rocks appear at a distance to be clothed in white , on account of the prodigious quantity of ordure and feathers with which they are covered ; and the birds , when compelled t GULF SCENERY . 31.
... eggs of domestic fowls . The rocks appear at a distance to be clothed in white , on account of the prodigious quantity of ordure and feathers with which they are covered ; and the birds , when compelled t GULF SCENERY . 31.
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... distance , reflecting with effulgent brightness the rays of the sun , while they pour their foaming torrents upon projecting rocks , whence they rebound in light and airy spray , and when again collected rush downwards in an impetuous ...
... distance , reflecting with effulgent brightness the rays of the sun , while they pour their foaming torrents upon projecting rocks , whence they rebound in light and airy spray , and when again collected rush downwards in an impetuous ...
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... distance from Quebec , their breadth increases , in proportion as the two rivers recede from each other and form the sides of a triangle nearly equilateral , of which the base will be an imaginary line drawn across the Plains about four ...
... distance from Quebec , their breadth increases , in proportion as the two rivers recede from each other and form the sides of a triangle nearly equilateral , of which the base will be an imaginary line drawn across the Plains about four ...
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... distances , to several cannons , which are sunk into the ground to nearly half their height . This arrangement serves as a barrier , to protect the base of the pillar from the wheels of carriages and other vehicles . A Monastery was ...
... distances , to several cannons , which are sunk into the ground to nearly half their height . This arrangement serves as a barrier , to protect the base of the pillar from the wheels of carriages and other vehicles . A Monastery was ...
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Five years' residence in the Canadas: including a tour through ..., Volume 1 Edward Allen Talbot Visualização completa - 1824 |
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Página 85 - FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Página 296 - Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Página 85 - Why should we yet our sail unfurl? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl; But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas
Página 86 - I remember when we have entered, at sunset, upon one of those beautiful lakes, into which the St. Lawrence so grandly and unexpectedly opens, I have heard this simple air with a pleasure which the finest compositions of the first masters have never given me...
Página 4 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes...
Página 182 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 259 - A NIGHTINGALE, that all day long Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining...
Página 384 - And whereas We are desirous, upon all Occasions, to testify Our Royal Sense and Approbation of the Conduct and Bravery of the Officers and Soldiers of Our Armies, and to reward the same...
Página 117 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 137 - These undulations succeed each other with great rapidity. When two persons stand very near to each other, they can mutually hear their ordinary conversation. When removed to a small distance, they are obliged to halloo ; and, when removed a little farther, cannot be heard at all. Every other sound is drowned in the tempest of noise, made by the water ; and all else in the regions of nature appears to be dumb. This noise is a vast thunder, filling the heavens; shaking the earth; and leaving the mind,...