The Traveller's Guide to Madeira and the West Indies: Being a Hieroglyphic Representation of Appearances and Incidents During a Voyage Out and Homewards, in a Series of Engravings ... : with a Treatise Explanatory of the Various Figures ... : to which are Added Occasional Notes, &cG. Miller and Son, 1815 - 119 Seiten |
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Seite 21 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view; The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys, warm and low ; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky! The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an ^Ethiop's arm.
Seite 74 - Liberal, not lavish, is kind Nature's hand ; Nor was perfection made for man below. Yet all her schemes with nicest art are plann'd, Good counteracting ill, and gladness woe. With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow ; If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arise ; There plague and poison, lust and rapine grow ; Here peaceful are the vales, and pure the skies, And freedom fires the soul, and sparkles in the eyes. Then grieve not, thou, to whom th...
Seite 107 - I was engaged upon die deck, when I heard the bell that summoned the crew to prayers ; I hastened to mingle my supplications with those of the companions of my voyage. The officers, with the passengers, were on the quarter ; the chaplain, with a book in his hand, stood at a little distance before them ; the seamen were scattered at random over the poop ; we were all standing, our faces toward the prow of the ship, which was turned to die west.
Seite 108 - ... motion of the stern, it appeared as if the radiant orb every moment changed its horizon. A few clouds wandered confusedly in the east, where the moon was slowly rising ; the rest of the sky was serene; and towards the north a Water-spout, forming a glorious triangle with the luminaries of day and night...
Seite 109 - The generous natives, moved with social pain, The feeble strangers in their arms sustain ; With pitying sighs their hapless lot deplore, And lead them trembling from the fatal shore.
Seite 78 - The sun's bright orb, declining all serene, Now glanced obliquely o'er the woodland scene : Creation smiles around ; on every spray The warbling birds exalt their evening lay : Blithe skipping o'er yon hill, the fleecy train Join the deep chorus of the lowing plain ; The golden lime, and orange, there were seen On fragrant branches of perpetual green ; The crystal streams "that velvet meadows lave, To the green ocean roll with chiding wave.
Seite 84 - When orient dews impearl the enamell'd lawn ; Than from his sides in bright suffusion flow, That now with gold empyreal seem to glow; Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, And emulate the soft celestial hue; Now beam a flaming crimson on the eye, And now assume the purple's deeper dye : But here description clouds each shining ray; What terms of art can nature's powers display...
Seite 107 - JLtt us rally ; let us have but one and the same wish — that of exterminating our tyrants.— On the unanimous co-operation of our union, of our efforts, will depend the prompt success of our cause. Let us exhibit to posterity/ a great example of courage ; let us combat with glory, and be effaced from the rank of nations, rather than renounce liberty and independence. A King, we know how to live and die like a King; you shall always see us at your head, sharing in your pe
Seite 68 - ... as teeth, and with which it breaks its food, and thrusts it into its mouth : these the scorpion can at pleasure pull back into its mouth, so that no part of them can be seen. On each side of the head are two arms, each composed of four joints ; the last of , which is large, with strong muscles, and made in the manner of a lobster's claw. Below the breast are eight articulated...