Merry's Book of Travel and AdventureUncle Merry H. Dayton, 1860 - 240 sider |
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Side 14
... dark shadow upon the other , and change the dazzling glow to a cold , bleak , inhospit- able frown . Occasionally , as portions of the sur- face melted in the sunbeams , or as the spray dash- ed up the sides of the cliff , little rills ...
... dark shadow upon the other , and change the dazzling glow to a cold , bleak , inhospit- able frown . Occasionally , as portions of the sur- face melted in the sunbeams , or as the spray dash- ed up the sides of the cliff , little rills ...
Side 16
... dark , lowering night . The storm was just passing away , but the waves were rolling and dashing with great fury . A little after midnight , the man at the bow cried out , " land - ho ! —a light ! " All hands were soon on deck , eager ...
... dark , lowering night . The storm was just passing away , but the waves were rolling and dashing with great fury . A little after midnight , the man at the bow cried out , " land - ho ! —a light ! " All hands were soon on deck , eager ...
Side 78
... dark- ness was produced at mid - day . " The children thought that the bed of the ocean must be wonderfully deep , to allow of mountain- chains in it whose tops only should rise above the waters , and Henry asked whether such islands ...
... dark- ness was produced at mid - day . " The children thought that the bed of the ocean must be wonderfully deep , to allow of mountain- chains in it whose tops only should rise above the waters , and Henry asked whether such islands ...
Side 93
... dark or brown complexion , and his hair was tinged with gray . His skin was extreme- ly fine and smooth , and his voice remarkably agree- able . He was only permitted to speak to the gov- ernor St. Mars , to Rosarges the major - domo ...
... dark or brown complexion , and his hair was tinged with gray . His skin was extreme- ly fine and smooth , and his voice remarkably agree- able . He was only permitted to speak to the gov- ernor St. Mars , to Rosarges the major - domo ...
Side 100
... and science , while now , the most of its inhabitants are shrouded in intellectual and moral darkness . Africa presents the most remarkable contrast of fertility and desolation ; the valley of the Nile is. 100 MERRY'S BOOK OF.
... and science , while now , the most of its inhabitants are shrouded in intellectual and moral darkness . Africa presents the most remarkable contrast of fertility and desolation ; the valley of the Nile is. 100 MERRY'S BOOK OF.
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adventures Africa appeared artist asked Bastile beautiful boat Bramin Brocken Cæsar called cave Charles Charles Morton Charley coral rocks cottage cried desert Diamond Cove distance duke of Mantua Dushmanta earth Elsie Elves eyes father feet forest Giotto glacier ground hand heard Henry herd-boy Highlands hills Indian iron mask islands Jerry king Lady lake land live Lizzie Loch Loch Awe Loch Katrine Loch Lomond looked Louis the Fourteenth Maia Mary mask master miles Morton mother moun MOUNT VESUVIUS mountain never night old woman painter papa party Peter Pignerol plains poor replied Robert scenery Scotland shore side soon specter Staten Island stone stood story Sumbawa tain tell thee thou thought tion told tower traveler tree valleys Vattêmal volcanoes watching Watley wind young
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Side 224 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not .here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe — , My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Side 105 - ... me, and perceiving that I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation, which I briefly explained to her; whereupon, with looks of great compassion, she took up my saddle and bridle, and told me to follow her.
Side 114 - One burnished sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled, In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And island that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Side 105 - They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore; for I was myself the subject of it. It was sung by one of the young women, the rest joining in a sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Side 62 - ... difficulty. My comrade going first, a track, which appeared to him more practicable and shorter than the regular path, led us astray. It was my fault. Ought I to have trusted to a head of twenty years? We sought our way out of the wood while it was yet light; but the more we looked for the path the farther we were off it.
Side 63 - Supper ended, they left us. Our hosts slept below; we on the story where we had been eating. In a sort of platform raised seven or eight feet, where we were to mount by a ladder, was the bed that awaited us — a nest into which we had to introduce ourselves by jumping over barrels filled with provisions for all the year.
Side 63 - That nothing might be omitted that could tend to our destruction, he must, forsooth, play the rich man, promising these folks to pay them well for their hospitality ; and then he must prate about his portmanteau, earnestly beseeching them to take care of it, and put it at the head of his bed, for he wanted no other pillow. Ah, youth, youth ! how art thou to be pitied!
Side 115 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben-venue Down...
Side 105 - About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose, that he might graze at liberty, a woman, returning from the labours of the field, stopped to observe me, and...
Side 115 - Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,