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... rivers , and over wild and desolate mountains . But the experience of this perilous and painful excursion , instead of damping his ardour , had the effect only of increasing it . In the spring of the following year , he had completed ...
... rivers , and over wild and desolate mountains . But the experience of this perilous and painful excursion , instead of damping his ardour , had the effect only of increasing it . In the spring of the following year , he had completed ...
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... river like a mirror , except where fragments of ice were floating down . His heart expanded with delight at the novelty and wildness of the scene . The song of the red - bird in the deep forests on the shore , the smoke of the various ...
... river like a mirror , except where fragments of ice were floating down . His heart expanded with delight at the novelty and wildness of the scene . The song of the red - bird in the deep forests on the shore , the smoke of the various ...
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... river , succeeded in killing it ; but he succeeded at the expense of his life . He caught a violent cold ; this was followed by dysentery , which carried him off after an illness of ten days . He died on the morning of the 23d August ...
... river , succeeded in killing it ; but he succeeded at the expense of his life . He caught a violent cold ; this was followed by dysentery , which carried him off after an illness of ten days . He died on the morning of the 23d August ...
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... River and adjacent parts . The traders belonged to an association called the Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company , and on this occasion they designed to fix a permanent branch establishment in the west . On the evening of the ...
... River and adjacent parts . The traders belonged to an association called the Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company , and on this occasion they designed to fix a permanent branch establishment in the west . On the evening of the ...
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... river at the rate of seven miles an hour . In four days they reached the small town of Independence , the outermost Anglo - American post , and disembarking , they began to prepare for their long and venturesome journey . Mr Townsend ...
... river at the rate of seven miles an hour . In four days they reached the small town of Independence , the outermost Anglo - American post , and disembarking , they began to prepare for their long and venturesome journey . Mr Townsend ...
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Page 12 - TO THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET LEIGH HUNT Green little' vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June — Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon When even the bees lag at the summoning brass; And you, warm little housekeeper, who class With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass; O sweet and tiny cousins, that belong, One to the fields, the other to the hearth...
Page 19 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Page 11 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Page 24 - CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! 1 Mrs.
Page 2 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page 12 - In the centre of the great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and. in the midst, — like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls, — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters, — the far-famed "Venice of the Aztecs.
Page 1 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king. All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants, belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice; Man for thee does sow and plow; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Page 9 - COME, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's ball, and the Grasshopper's feast; The trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for you.
Page 20 - ALL upstarts, insolent in place, Remind us of their vulgar race. As in the sunshine of the morn A Butterfly, but newly born, Sat proudly perking on a rose, With pert conceit his bosom glows; His wings, 'all glorious to behold, Bedrop'd with azure, jet, and gold, Wide he displays; the spangled dew Reflects his eyes and various hue.