The Voyage: And Other English Essays from the Sketch BookHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 147 sider |
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... mingled among them in my time , and been almost withered by the shade into which they cast me ; for there is nothing so baleful to a small man as the shade of a great one , particularly the great man of a city . But I was anxious to see ...
... mingled among them in my time , and been almost withered by the shade into which they cast me ; for there is nothing so baleful to a small man as the shade of a great one , particularly the great man of a city . But I was anxious to see ...
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... mingled security and awe with which I looked down , from my giddy height , on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols : shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus , slowly heaving his huge form above ...
... mingled security and awe with which I looked down , from my giddy height , on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols : shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus , slowly heaving his huge form above ...
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... mingling with the wind . The blast that bore it to our ears swept us out of all farther hearing . I shall never forget that cry ! It was some time before we could put the ship about , she was under such headway . We returned , as nearly ...
... mingling with the wind . The blast that bore it to our ears swept us out of all farther hearing . I shall never forget that cry ! It was some time before we could put the ship about , she was under such headway . We returned , as nearly ...
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... mingles with the lower orders of cities . He lays aside his distance and reserve , and is glad to waive the distinctions of rank and to enter into the honest , heartfelt enjoyments of com- mon life . Indeed the very amusements of the ...
... mingles with the lower orders of cities . He lays aside his distance and reserve , and is glad to waive the distinctions of rank and to enter into the honest , heartfelt enjoyments of com- mon life . Indeed the very amusements of the ...
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... mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature ; the frequent use of illustra- tions from rural life ; those incomparable descriptions of Nature that abound in the ...
... mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature ; the frequent use of illustra- tions from rural life ; those incomparable descriptions of Nature that abound in the ...
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Side 104 - The time must come when its gilded vaults, which now spring so loftily, shall lie in rubbish beneath the feet; when, instead of the sound of melody and praise, the wind shall whistle through the broken arches, and the owl hoot from the shattered tower — when the garish sunbeam shall break into these gloomy mansions of death; and the ivy twine round the fallen column; and the fox-glove hang its blossoms about the nameless urn, as if in mockery of the dead. Thus man passes away; his name perishes...
Side 13 - THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character must not confine his observations to the metropolis. He must go forth into the country; he must sojourn in villages and hamlets; he must visit castles, villas, farm-houses, cottages; he must wander through parks and gardens; along hedges and green lanes; he must loiter about country churches; attend wakes...
Side 5 - To an American visiting Europe, the long voyage he has to make is an excellent preparative. The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impressions.
Side 8 - ... this spar, to prevent their being .washed off by the waves. There was no trace by which the name of the ship could be ascertained. The wreck had evidently drifted about for many months ; clusters of shell-fish had fastened about it, and long sea-weeds flaunted at its sides. But where, thought I, is the crew...
Side 103 - ... but a treasury of humiliation; a huge pile of reiterated homilies on the emptiness of renown, and the certainty of oblivion! It is, indeed, the empire of death; his great shadowy palace, where he sits in state, mocking at the relics of human glory, and spreading dust and forgetfulness on the monuments of princes. How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present, to think of the characters...
Side 93 - ... the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate. He has lived for them more than for himself; he has sacrificed surrounding enjoyments, and shut himself up from the delights oí social life, that he might the more intimately commune with distant minds and distant ages.
Side 19 - Leaf" of Chaucer and have brought into our closets all the freshness and fragrance of the dewy landscape. The pastoral writers of other countries appear as if they had paid Nature an occasional visit, and become acquainted with her general charms; but the British poets have lived and reveled with her — they have wooed her in her most secret haunts — they have watched her minutest caprices.
Side 3 - Europe held forth the charms of storied and poetical association, There were to be seen the masterpieces of art. the refinements of highly cultivated society, the quaint peculiarities of ancient and local custom. My native country was full of youthful promise ; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age- Her very ruins told the history of times gone by,, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle.
Side 1 - I WAS always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing, strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.
Side 20 - The effect of this devotion of elegant minds to rural occupations, has been wonderful on the face of the country. A great part of the island is rather level, and would be monotonous, were it not for the charms of culture ; but it is studded and gemmed, as it were, with castles and palaces, and embroidered with parks and gardens. It does not abound in grand and sublime prospects, but rather in little home scenes of rural repose and sheltered quiet.