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... seemed to waver before the eyes in the bright and sultry stillness ; and my horse , with drooping ears , and feeble step and frequent halt , slowly and painfully toiled up the steep ascent ; while all nature , animate and inanimate , seemed ...
... seemed to waver before the eyes in the bright and sultry stillness ; and my horse , with drooping ears , and feeble step and frequent halt , slowly and painfully toiled up the steep ascent ; while all nature , animate and inanimate , seemed ...
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... seemed scarcely able to drag on during the sultry day , has literally broken into a gallop . And now we are again in the inhabited part of the valley ; how beauti- fully that farm - house peeps out from amidst its oaks and orange trees ...
... seemed scarcely able to drag on during the sultry day , has literally broken into a gallop . And now we are again in the inhabited part of the valley ; how beauti- fully that farm - house peeps out from amidst its oaks and orange trees ...
Page 39
... seemed to have hopes , and galloped forward , bringing me to a spot where the cliffs overhung the plain below ; he stopped suddenly , and the hopes of the poor horse and mine fell together ; for there was now nothing for it , but to ...
... seemed to have hopes , and galloped forward , bringing me to a spot where the cliffs overhung the plain below ; he stopped suddenly , and the hopes of the poor horse and mine fell together ; for there was now nothing for it , but to ...
Page 40
... seemed to place his sole reliance ; he kept close to me , thrusting ou this head in the direction of the beasts ' approach , snuffing the scent ; and though we had never been particularly intimate before , he seemed to consider us as ...
... seemed to place his sole reliance ; he kept close to me , thrusting ou this head in the direction of the beasts ' approach , snuffing the scent ; and though we had never been particularly intimate before , he seemed to consider us as ...
Page 42
... seemed to sleep upon it , so perfect was the deception . Who can wonder , I thought , that the sun should have been worshipped ? This last adventure was not altogether agree- able , but to me there is a pleasure in my soli- tary rides ...
... seemed to sleep upon it , so perfect was the deception . Who can wonder , I thought , that the sun should have been worshipped ? This last adventure was not altogether agree- able , but to me there is a pleasure in my soli- tary rides ...
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Page 201 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 201 - With many of the feathered race, he pays the common tribute of a morning and an evening song ; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another toll, and then a pause again, and then a toll, and again a pause.
Page 286 - They moved in tracks of shining white; And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire — Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 200 - His note is loud and clear, like the sound of a bell, and may be heard at the distance of three miles. In the midst of these extensive wilds, generally on the dried top of an aged mora, almost out of gun reach, you will see the campanero. No sound or song from any of the winged inhabitants of the forest, not even the clearly pronounced ' Whip-poor- Will ' from the goatsucker, causes such astonishment as the toll of the campanero.
Page 58 - Here's a large mouth, indeed, That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas ; Talks as familiarly of roaring lions, As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs...
Page 159 - OH, happy shades — to me unblest ! Friendly to peace, but not to me ! How ill the scene that offers rest, And heart that cannot rest, agree...
Page 199 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 95 - English have given him their protection, and with it their vices; and he is a sunk and degraded being — a wretched savage, despised and suspected by his tribe, continually intoxicated, and ever ready to sell his wives for brandy. — Such are the fruits of our protection ! such have ever been the effects on the savage, of the kindness of the civilized. If we find them simple and trusting, we leave them treacherous; if we find them temperate, we leave them drunkards; and in after-years, a plea for...
Page 87 - Their figures are the noblest that my eye ever gazed upon, their movements the most graceful, and their attitudes the proudest, standing like forms of monumental bronze. I was much struck with the strong resemblance that a group of Kaffers bears to the Greek and Etruscan antique remains, except that the savage drapery is more scanty; and falls in simpler folds...