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Page 28 - For bards to live and saints to die in ! Close to my wooded bank below, In glassy calm the waters sleep, And to the sun-beam proudly show The coral rocks they love to steep...
Page 167 - Island, where he was swallowed up in the Great Earthquake in the year 1692 and by the Providence of God was by another Shock thrown into the Sea, and miraculously saved by swimming until a boat took him up : He lived many years after in great Reputation, Beloved by all who knew him and much lamented at his death.
Page 21 - Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's...
Page 479 - ... cut it off above. Meanwhile, the old story of Jack and the Bean-stalk comes into your mind. In such a forest was the old dame's hut; and up such a bean-stalk Jack climbed, to find a giant and a castle high above. Why not? What may not be up there? You look up into the green cloud, and long for a moment to be a monkey. There may be monkeys up there over your head, burly red Howler, or tiny peevish Sapajou, peering down at you; but you cannot peer up at them.
Page 478 - You see that at once by the form of its cable — six or eight inches across in one direction, and three or four in another, furbelowed all down the middle into regular knots, and looking like a chain cable between two flexible iron bars. At another of the loops, about as thick as your arm, your companion, if you have a forester with you, will spring joyfully. With a few blows of his cutlass he will sever it as high up as he can reach, and again below, some three feet down; and, while you are wondering...
Page 173 - Roy grows for her visitors on her own soil, and prepares from the first stage to the last with her own cunning hands. ' Having made acquaintance with the mistress, I strolled out to look about me. After walking up the road for a quarter of a mile, I found, myself in an exact reproduction of a Warwickshire hamlet before the days of railways and brick chimneys.
Page 478 - ... ascending sap, or rather the ascending pure rainwater which has been taken up by the roots, and is hurrying aloft, to be elaborated into sap, and leaf, and flower, and fruit, and fresh tissue for the very stem up which it originally climbed; and therefore it is that the woodman cuts the Watervine through first at the top of the piece which he wants, and not at the bottom ; for so rapid is the ascent of the sap that if he cut the stem below, the water would have all fled upwards before he could...
Page 478 - With a few blows of his cutlass he will sever it as high up as he can reach, and again below, some three feet down ; and, while you are wondering at this seemingly wanton destruction, he lifts the bar on high, throws his head back, and pours down his thirsty throat a pint or more of pure cold water. This hidden treasure is, strange as it may seem, the ascending sap, or rather the ascending pure rainwater which has been taken up by the roots, and is hurrying aloft, to be elaborated into sap, and leaf,...
Page 254 - Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountains in its azure hue," are peculiarly applicable here.
Page 477 - ... the light-food far above ; and next, of a green cloud, or rather mist, which hovers round your head, and rises, thickening and thickening to an unknown height. The upward lines are of every possible thickness, and of almost every possible hue ; what leaves they bear, being for most part on the tips of the twigs, give a scattered mist-like appearance to the under-foliage.