The Crayon Reading Book: Comprising Selections from the Various Writings of W.I. Prepared for the Use of SchoolsG.P. Putnam & Company, 1855 - 255 Seiten |
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Acbar Adelantado admiration Alhambra ancient Andreas Martin appearance arms arrived beautiful behold Boabdil bosom buffalo burst Cadiz camp caravels Castilian cavaliers clouds Columbus convent court dark death deep delight dilla distance earth fancy feelings forest friar gate gave gaze gloom Granada grave hands heard heart heaven hills horses Hunt hunters Indian inhabitants Isabella island Juan Juan Perez kind king Lactantius land light lofty looked lumbus Manetho mind mingled Moguer monuments Moorish Narragansets natives nature neighboring night noble ocean Palos passed Peter Stuyvesant pipe of peace Pokanoket poor prairies pride rendered river Rocky Mountains round ruin sail savage scene seemed sepulchres ship shore silent solemn song sorrow soul sovereigns Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit stream summit surrounded thing thunder tion tomb trees tribes Vasco Nuñez vast village voyage wandered warriors whole wild wind Xenel
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 194 - ... if thou art a lover, and hast ever given one unmerited pang to that true heart which now lies cold and still beneath thy feet, — then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action will come thronging back upon thy memory and knocking dolefully at thy soul...
Seite 240 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.
Seite 226 - With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery! Until his last breath, he entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce, and had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hispaniola to be the ancient Ophir, which had been visited by the ships of King Solomon, and that Cuba and Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia.
Seite 25 - ... it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited.
Seite 247 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it...
Seite 185 - For in the silent grave no conversation, No joyful tread of friends, no voice of lovers, No careful father's counsel — nothing's heard, For nothing is, but all oblivion, Dust, and an endless darkness.
Seite 200 - Unfortunately, the son was tempted, during a year of scarcity and agricultural hardship, to enter into the service of one of the small craft that plied on a neighboring river.
Seite 111 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Seite 11 - Her complexion was fair ; her hair auburn, inclining to red ; her eyes were of a clear blue, with a benign expression, and there was a singular modesty in her countenance, gracing, as it did, a wonderful firmness of purpose, and earnestness of spirit.
Seite 130 - ... along over twisted roots and fallen trees, with their eyes turned up to the sky. In this way they traced the honey-laden bees to their hive, in the hollow trunk of a blasted oak, where, after buzzing about for a moment, they entered a hole about sixty feet from the ground.