A Winter in the Azores: And a Summer at the Baths of the Furnas, Volume 2J. Van Voorst, 1841 |
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... distance ) seems to fill the mind at once , and make it a temporary master of the delight . We gaze longer afterwards , that we may remember it more surely ; but the first glance is the in- tensely pleasurable one . Having taken this ...
... distance ) seems to fill the mind at once , and make it a temporary master of the delight . We gaze longer afterwards , that we may remember it more surely ; but the first glance is the in- tensely pleasurable one . Having taken this ...
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... distances at the end of a long day , and it is a great consolation in case of accidental stop- pages . " I cannot say that " we bought a small basket ; " but , by the kindness of a lady , we had THE BASKET SYSTEM . 17 been provided with ...
... distances at the end of a long day , and it is a great consolation in case of accidental stop- pages . " I cannot say that " we bought a small basket ; " but , by the kindness of a lady , we had THE BASKET SYSTEM . 17 been provided with ...
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... distances without eating any thing ; but I strongly recommend the basket system , having tried both plans . " Excel- lent willow baskets are made in the island , to which a padlock may be fastened , a necessary pre- caution here ...
... distances without eating any thing ; but I strongly recommend the basket system , having tried both plans . " Excel- lent willow baskets are made in the island , to which a padlock may be fastened , a necessary pre- caution here ...
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... distance , and shutting out objects of comparison , gave additional boldness to the cliffs ; -formed a wild and striking picture . Those who visit Fayal for the sake of seeing the island , should by no means omit coming to this place ...
... distance , and shutting out objects of comparison , gave additional boldness to the cliffs ; -formed a wild and striking picture . Those who visit Fayal for the sake of seeing the island , should by no means omit coming to this place ...
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... distance of five hundred yards . The tables were planks of deal , resting on empty tubs at equal distances asunder . In each tub branches of the common yellow broom were stuck ; and the planks , as well as the altar , were afterwards ...
... distance of five hundred yards . The tables were planks of deal , resting on empty tubs at equal distances asunder . In each tub branches of the common yellow broom were stuck ; and the planks , as well as the altar , were afterwards ...
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A Winter in the Azores; and a Summer at the Baths of the Furnas, Volume 2 Joseph Bullar,Henry Bullar Visualização integral - 1841 |
A Winter in the Azores: And a Summer at the Baths of the Furnas, Volume 2 Joseph Bullar,Henry Bullar Visualização integral - 1841 |
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Página 197 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : Even so my sun one early morn did shine With...
Página 15 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea. And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, On the leaping waters and gay young isles ; Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away.
Página 225 - The food of hope Is meditated action ; robbed of this Her sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live by hope And by desire ; we see by the glad light And breathe the sweet air of futurity ; And so we live, or else we have no life.
Página 263 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Página 1 - Dispirited : when, all at once, behold ! Beneath our feet, a little lowly vale, A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains ; even as if the spot Had been from eldest time by wish of theirs So placed, to be shut out from all the world ! Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn ; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close ; A quiet treeless nook, with two green...
Página 341 - Winter season does of our own. The only advantage of Italy then is, that your penance is shorter than it would be in England ; for I repeat, that during the time it lasts, Winter is more severely felt here, than at Sidmouth, where I would even recommend an Italian invalid to repair, from November till February ; — if he could possess himself of Fortunatus's cap, to remove the difficulties of the journey.
Página 227 - They unto whom we shall seem tedious are in no wise injured by us, because it is in their own hands to spare that labour which they are not willing to endure.
Página 339 - SOMNIA — if a man be tired of the slow lingering progress of consumption, let him repair to Naples ; and the denouement will be much more rapid. The Sirocco wind, which has been blowing for six days, continues with the same violence.
Página 210 - ... cheerfulness which attend the celebration of the Sabbath-day in rural places are profitably chastised by the sight of the graves of kindred and friends, gathered together in that general home towards which the thoughtful yet happy spectators themselves are journeying. Hence a parish church in the stillness of the country is a visible centre of a community of the living and the dead ; a point to which are habitually referred the nearest concerns of both.
Página 135 - Not melancholy — no, for it is green, And bright, and fertile, furnished in itself With the few needful things that life requires. In rugged arms how soft it seems to lie, How tenderly protected...