Life in the West: Back-wood Leaves and Prairie Flowers: Rough Sketches on the Borders of the Picturesque, the Sublime, and RidiculousT. C. Newby, 1843 - 363 σελίδες A journey from London to Wisconsin, with stops in Ireland and at various points in the United States. |
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Σελίδα 170 - And Gilpin, long live he; And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see ! AN EPISTLE TO A PROTESTANT LADY IN FRANCE.
Σελίδα 267 - At breakfast we had five or six plates of the scarlet fruit pompously paraded and eagerly devoured, with hearty commendations, by the guests. Some eat them with milk, others with vinegar and mustard, some with sugar and molasses. I essayed to follow suit, and was very near refunding the rest of my breakfast upon the table, the sickly flavour of flattongue grass,' sour milk, and raw cabbage, being concealed under the beautiful skin of the love-apple I had the temerity to swallow. At dinner, tomatoes...
Σελίδα 272 - His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and die so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile : The upper part thereof was whey, The nether orange mixed with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns ; With grisly type did represent Declining age of government ; And tell with hieroglyphic spade Its own grave and the state's were made.
Σελίδα iii - WE may roam through this world, like a child at a feast, Who but sips of a sweet, and then flies to the rest; And, when pleasure begins to grow dull in the east, We may order our wings, and be off to the west...
Σελίδα 251 - I soon discovered to be a stagnant pool, or succession of stagnant pools, separated from the lake by a goodly barrier of sand, mayhap earth and rock.
Σελίδα 233 - Collt., viii., p. 250, note. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LEAD AND SHOT TRADE IN EARLY WISCONSIN HISTORY. BY ORIN GRANT LIBBY, PH. D. "Wisconsin is a young buffalo; and though in a minority, he roams over his beautiful prairies and reclines in his pleasant groves, with all the buoyant feelings of an American freeman. He slakes his thirst at the purest fountains that gush from the adamantine base of his lovely soil, and bathes at pleasure in his limpid lakes, paved with agates and sapphires. He paws up lead...
Σελίδα 193 - ... their industry and enterprise have aided considerably in bringing our flourishing town into the prominent position which it now assumes. Who has been on board the Brothers, and has seen the taste and elegance displayed in her fittings up, and viewed her cabin table groaning under the weight of savory dishes and delicacies of every kind ; but above all, who that has feasted on the good things of that table, that will not join with us in the meed of praise to the jolly fellow who commands her?...
Σελίδα 266 - ... By way of dessert, it was a fortunate circumstance that our host possessed such a garden in his luxuriant brain as enabled him to dispense with the rich productions of Illinois at his table, without a murmur ; but how he had reduced himself and family to enjoy a tomato, was beyond my comprehension. Tomato was the word — the theme — the song, from morning till night — from night till morning. The first morning I descended to the bar, there sat the colonel in his white and black chip hat,...
Σελίδα 328 - ... observed, he stood up before the red embers of the fire, dropped his blanket from his shoulders round his loins, and raising his right hand, spoke in a deep, yet clear and somewhat sonorous voice, without stopping, for at least half an hour, my friend the bluff Frenchman interpreting what he said, to me, from time to time. The speech, from first to last, was in the declamatory style, and against whisky.
Σελίδα 33 - Prudence is said to be the better part of valour — " He that fights and runs away, May live " The " may live" of that dry distich stuck in my throat.