American resortsF.A. Davis, 1889 - 285 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 87 - swelling up to a noble height and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives far and near, as perfect barometers.
Σελίδα 120 - lines :— Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time ; Soon as the woods on the shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Anne's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Σελίδα 28 - And fast through the midnight, dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's woe.
Σελίδα 154 - for health unbought, Than fee a doctor for a nauseous draught ; The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made His work for man to mend.
Σελίδα 120 - shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Anne's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Σελίδα 29 - Of the marvellous valley hidden in the depth of Gloucester woods, Full of plants that love the summer, blooms of warmer latitudes ; Where the Arctic birch is braided by the tropic's flowery vines, And the white magnolia blossoms star the twilight of the pines.
Σελίδα 24 - Nowhere fairer, sweeter, rarer, Does the golden-locked fruit bearer Through his painted woodlands stray, Than where hill-side oaks and beeches Overlook the long, blue reaches, Silver coves and pebbled beaches, And green isles of Casco Bay.
Σελίδα 87 - Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family and are seen away to the west of the
Σελίδα 61 - that it resembles a bed of the pure mountain atmosphere compressed into a setting of hills and woods. Nothing is wanted but ruined castles and recollections to raise it to the level of the Rhine.
Σελίδα 30 - Not far away we saw the port, The strange, old-fashioned, silent town, The lighthouse, the dismantled fort, The wooden houses, quaint and brown.