Days and Nights in the TropicsMorang & Company, limited, 1905 - 230 pages |
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... side and divide the lots . Rivulets of water course along in stone channels by the side of the roadway , and the noise of running water , so dear to the Azorean heart , is continuous . At the town of Lomba da Cruz the route winds to the ...
... side and divide the lots . Rivulets of water course along in stone channels by the side of the roadway , and the noise of running water , so dear to the Azorean heart , is continuous . At the town of Lomba da Cruz the route winds to the ...
Page 14
... side are the deep , breathing waters of the ocean , whose ululations at night are strangely weird . To the south are the bold and pine - covered peaks of Balho sloping down to fertile valleys , where villages nestle , where cross ...
... side are the deep , breathing waters of the ocean , whose ululations at night are strangely weird . To the south are the bold and pine - covered peaks of Balho sloping down to fertile valleys , where villages nestle , where cross ...
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... sides of the mountains . Every- where there were signs of age and long occupation . The paths leading over the rocky ... side of the crater , we saw the ever - rising smoke of the boiling geysers , whose sulphurous and noxious fumes kill ...
... sides of the mountains . Every- where there were signs of age and long occupation . The paths leading over the rocky ... side of the crater , we saw the ever - rising smoke of the boiling geysers , whose sulphurous and noxious fumes kill ...
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... sides , with their immense concavities , tell of the frightful agonies and convulsions of the mother which bore them . The erosion and rain of centuries have deepened the lava furrows of the mountain- sides and a luxuriant growth of ...
... sides , with their immense concavities , tell of the frightful agonies and convulsions of the mother which bore them . The erosion and rain of centuries have deepened the lava furrows of the mountain- sides and a luxuriant growth of ...
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... side by side , sheep bunched closer , and the dog of the shepherd crouched at his master's feet and looked up enquiringly into his face . The stillness continued to deepen , till a sense of loneli- ness entered into the habitations of ...
... side by side , sheep bunched closer , and the dog of the shepherd crouched at his master's feet and looked up enquiringly into his face . The stillness continued to deepen , till a sense of loneli- ness entered into the habitations of ...
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Page 125 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 163 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 25 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, and fondly broods with miser care ; time but the impression deeper makes, as streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 175 - Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page iv - Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, by THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY (L1M1TED), Toronto, Ontario, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.
Page 167 - Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened...
Page 155 - One he surpassed in the difficulty of the scene of action, another in the extent of the countries he subdued; this, in the number and strength of the enemies he overcame, that, in the savage manners and treacherous disposition of the people he humanized; one, in mildness and clemency to his prisoners, another, in bounty and munificence to his troops; and all, in the number of battles that...
Page 6 - Argos, the pasture-land of horses, but the deathless gods will convey thee to the Elysian plain and the world's end, where is Rhadamanthus of the fair hair, where life is easiest for men. No snow is there, nor yet great storm, nor any rain; but always ocean sendeth forth the breeze of the shrill West to blow cool on men: yea, for thou hast Helen to wife, and thereby they deem thee to be son of Zeus.
Page 196 - I stood before the triple northern port, Where dedicated shapes of saints and kings, Stern faces bleared with immemorial watch, Looked down benignly grave and seemed to say, Ye come and go incessant ; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past ; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
Page 148 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.