Transatlantic Rambles: Or, A Record of Twelve Months' Travel in the United States, Cuba, & the BrazilsGeorge Bell, 186, Fleet-Street, 1851 - 168 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
American amongst amusement appearance arrived Baltimore clipper banks beautiful berth blue Boa Vista boat boots Brazilian Brazils breakfast cabin captain CHAPTER churches colour cribbage crowd dark deck Delaware river dinner distance dollars dressed engine England English Englishman eyes fancy feet Flying Dutchman four gentleman going half handsome harbour head hill horses hour immense Island ladies Lagoa dos Patos land latter Levy Island looking Lord Elgin miles morning mountains mule N. P. WILLIS negroes never night o'clock OLD DAN TUCKER opera passed passengers Pernambuco Petropolis pleasant port portmanteau postilion principal railway Rio Janeiro river road rock round sail Savannah scene seemed seen shape ship side slave soon sort splendid stay steam-boat steamer streets Sunday thing tion told town travellers trees vessel voyage wharf wind yellow young
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Página 91 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Página 34 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Página 91 - Roll'd to starboard, roll'd to larboard, when the surge was seething free, Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam-fountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to...
Página 34 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 44 - Mr. SILAS HIGGINS, who was lately a member of this branch of the Legislature, is dead, and he died yesterday in the forenoon. He had the brown-creaters, (bronchitis was meant,) and was an uncommon individual. His character was good up to the time of his death, and he never lost his woice.
Página 44 - He was fifty-six year old, and was taken sick before he died, at his boarding-house, where board can be had at a dollar and seventy-five cents a week, washing and lights included. He was an ingenus creetur, and, in the early part of his life, had a father and mother.
Página 61 - Ocean, and its bed would not afford sufficient for its corpse. And yet America is still in the gristle of boyhood. Europe — what is Europe ? She is nowhar — nothing. — a circumstance — a cypher — a land absolutely ideal. We have faster steamboats, swifter locomotives, larger creeks, bigger plantations, better mill privileges...
Página 44 - ... beforehand. His death was considered, at the time, as rather premature, on account of its being brought on by a very hard cold. " Now, Mr. Speaker, such being the character of General Washington, I motion that we wear crape around the left arm of this Legislature, and adjourn...
Página 79 - Swift, such is its name, bore them to the Avon, that to the Severn, the Severn to the sea, to be dispersed unto all lands — which things are an allegory.
Página 115 - Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.