A Tale of ParaguayS. G. Goodrich, 1827 - 209 sider |
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Abipon adoration amid babe beasts beneath blessed blest bliss body Bolotoo bower breath brought calzador Canto child consolation cordovan couvade daughter dead dear death delight dexa divine Dobrizhoffer dread dream dwell earth el pie evil eyes faith fatal Father fear feeling feet felt gallant grave grief Guarani happy hath heard heart Heaven heavenly History of Brazil holy hombre hope hormas hour human Indians jaguar Jesuit Joachin kind knew knight errant land light living look'd Maiden maize mano mind Monnema Mooma mortal mother Nahuales natural night pain Pamplona Patagones Patriarch peace Polygamy prayer prey Proem Quiara savage says seem'd sense sepultura shoeing skin sight silla solitude soul Spain spirit strain strange suffer sweet TALE OF PARAGUAY taught tears tell thee things thou thought thro Tonga tree tribes ween whate'er wild wood Yeruti youth zapato
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Side 57 - By nature peccable and frail are we, Easily beguiled ; to vice, to error prone ; But apt for virtue too. Humanity Is not a field where tares and thorns alone Are left to spring ; good seed hath there been sown With no unsparing hand. Sometimes the shoot Is choked with weeds, or withers on a stone ; But in a kindly soil it strikes its root, And flourisheth, and bringeth forth abundant fruit.
Side 158 - Charles V. was the knight of La Mancha, devoting his labours and vigils, his wars and treaties, to the chimerical idea of making all minds, like watches, turn their indexes, by a simultaneous movement to one point. Sancho Panza was the symbol of the people, possessing sound sense in all other matters, but ready to follow the most extravagant visionary in this, and combining implicit belief in it, with the grossest sensuality. For religion, when it is hot enough to produce enthusiasm, burns up and...
Side 37 - ... bore Of life and hope. The appointed weeks go by ; And now her hour is come, and none is nigh To help : but human help she needed none. A few short throes endured with scarce a cry, Upon the bank she laid her new-born son, Then slid into the stream, and bathed, and all was done.
Side 176 - A mansion infested by age and by sorrow ; the seat of malady, harassed with pains, haunted with the quality of darkness, and incapable of standing long; such a mansion of the vital soul, let its occupier always cheerfully quit.
Side 114 - By whom the scheme of that wise order was combined. 10. It was a land of priestcraft, but the Priest Believed himself the fables that he taught: Corrupt their forms, and yet those forms at least Preserved a salutary faith that wrought, Maugre the alloy, the saving end it sought. Benevolence had gained such empire there, That even superstition had been brought An aspect of humanity to wear, And make the weal of man its first and only care.
Side 115 - Behold the fraudful arts, the covert strife, The jarring interests that engross mankind ; The low pursuits, the selfish aims of life ; Studies that weary and contract the mind, That bring no joy, and leave no peace behind ; And Death approaching to dissolve the spell ! The immortal soul, which hath so long been blind, Recovers then clear sight, and sees too well The error of its ways, when irretrievable. 14. Far happier the Guaranies' humble race, With whom in dutiful contentment wise, The gentle...
Side 112 - Content and cheerful Piety were found Within those humble walls. From youth to age The simple dwellers paced their even round Of duty, not desiring to engage Upon the busy world's contentious stage. Whose ways they wisely had been train'd to dread : Their inoffensive lives in pupilage Perpetually, but peacefully they led, From all temptation saved, and sure of daily bread.
Side 176 - The murderer is dissected in the surgeon's hall gratis, and the rich sinner is embowelled in his own apartment at great expense. The robber, . exposed to open air, wastes away in hoops of iron; and the gentleman, confined to a damp vault, moulders away in sheets of lead : and while the fowls of the air greedily prey upon the one, the vermin of the earth eagerly devour the other.
Side 91 - Little he deem'd when with his Indian band He through the wilds set forth upon his way, A Poet then unborn, and in a land Which had proscribed his order, should one day Take up from thence his moralizing lay, And shape a song that, with no fiction drest, Should to his worth its grateful tribute pay, And sinking deep in many an English breast, Foster that faith divine that keeps the heart at rest.
Side 176 - A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with nerves and tendons for cords ; with muscles and blood for mortar ; with skin for its outward covering; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with...