The pictorial geographical reader, Том 2

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Страница 36 - So far I live to the northward, No man lives north of me; To the east are wild mountain-chains. And beyond them meres and plains; To the westward all is sea.
Страница 125 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt seaweed Clings to the marble of her palaces.
Страница 201 - I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission; the long sought for, majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.
Страница 144 - And from your spider-bowels drew Foul film, and spun the dirty clue. I own my humble life, good Friend ; Snail was I born, and Snail shall end. And what's a Butterfly? at best He 's but a caterpillar drest ; And all thy race (a numerous seed) Shall prove of caterpillar breed.
Страница 126 - I AM in Rome ! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy ? What has befallen me ? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome ! A thousand busy thoughts li nsh on my mind, a thousand images ; And I spring up as girt to run a race...
Страница 37 - To the west of me was the ocean, To the right the desolate shore, But I did not slacken sail For the walrus or the whale, Till after three days more. " The days grew longer and longer, Till they became as one, And southward through the haze I saw the sullen blaze Of the red midnight sun.
Страница 203 - The view of this extensive city; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.
Страница 143 - His now-forgotten friend, a snail, Beneath his house, with slimy trail Crawls o'er the grass; whom when he spies, In wrath he to the gard'ner cries: 'What means yon peasant's daily toil, From choking weeds to rid the soil?
Страница 83 - Birds ! Birds ! ye are beautiful things, With your earth-treading feet and your cloud-cleaving wings ! Where shall Man wander, and where shall he dwell, Beautiful Birds, that ye come not as well ? Ye have nests on the mountain all rugged and stark, Ye have nests in the forest all tangled and dark ; Ye build and ye brood 'neath the cottagers...
Страница 127 - Thou art in ROME ! the city, where the Gauls, Entering at sunrise through her open gates, And, through her streets silent and desolate, Marching to slay, thought they saw gods, not men...

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