Western Wanderings: A Record of Travel in the Evening LandR. Bentley, 1874 - 364 pàgines |
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Western Wanderings: A Record of Travel in the Evening Land John Whetham Boddam-Whetham Visualització completa - 1874 |
Western Wanderings: A Record of Travel in the Evening Land John Whetham Boddam-Whetham Visualització completa - 1874 |
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American amongst animals appearance arrived beautiful Big Trees birds British Columbia California called camp cañon Captain Jack Chinese colour Columbia River Council Bluffs crossed deep deer distance ducks enormous Falls FARALLONE ISLAND favourite feet fire fish flowers forest Fort Klamath Fraser gardens Geyser grand Gulf of Georgia head height hills horses houses hundred Indians Island journey Klamath lake land lava Lava Beds leave look magnificent miles Modocs Mormon morning moun Mount Shasta mountains Nanaimo Nevada Fall never Niagara night passed picturesque pines pleasant ravine reached rise river road rocks rocky round rushes salmon San Francisco scene scenery seen Shasta shooting shore shot shrubs side snow soon splendid steep stream told town traveller Valley Vernal Fall Virginia City walk whilst wild wind wonderful wood Yosemite Yosemite Valley
Passatges populars
Pàgina 151 - And first behold this cordial julep here, That flames and dances in his crystal bounds, With spirits of balm and fragrant syrups mixed; Not that nepenthes, which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly or so cool to thirst.
Pàgina 312 - There is an order Of mortals on the enrth who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death ; Some perishing of pleasure, some of study, Some worn with toil, some of mere weariness, Some of disease, some of insanity, And some of
Pàgina 151 - mixed; Not that nepenthes, which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly or so cool to thirst.
Pàgina 192 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Pàgina 256 - foal of an oppressed race, I love the languid patience of thy face; And oft with gentle hand I give thee bread, And clap thy ragged coat, and pat thy head.
Pàgina 55 - clusters of roses and purple amorphas. Over them wander the buffalo herds and the elk and the roebuck; Over them wander the wolves, and herds of riderless horses;
Pàgina 261 - A house where none hath ever died.' Thus through the long and weary day From every door she bore away Within her heart, and on her arm, A heavier load, a deeper harm. By gates of gold and ivory, By wattled huts of poverty, The
Pàgina 312 - Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death ; Some perishing of pleasure, some of study, Some worn with toil, some of mere weariness, Some of disease,
Pàgina 262 - many.' The evening came so still and fleet, And overtook her hurrying feet, And, heart-sick, by the sacred fane She fell and prayed the god again. She sobbed and beat her bursting breast:
Pàgina 223 - like it before— When I hunted a wounded doe to the edge o' the Clear Lake shore ; And I had my knee on its neck, and jist was raisin
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