The West India Sketch Book, Volume 1privately printed, 1835 |
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afford agreeable Antigua appeared arrived attention Audain Basseterre beach bearing beauty boat breeze cabin called cane Captain cause character civilized colour Columbus conveyed course crew deck Delphinus Deseada direction discovered distance dolphin Dominica embark estates Eustatia evidence extremely face Falmouth feeling feet fish gave Ghumbs Guadaloupe harbour heart Hispaniola host imagination inhabitants labour land length less Massa master ment mind morning Mount Healthy mountains nature negroes never Nevis night occasion occasionally ourselves passed person pilot fish portion possession proceeded purpose Road Town sail sailors Saint Christopher Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Thomas Santa Cruz satisfied scarce seen sensations ship shore side singular SKETCH soul spirit spot sugar surface tain thee thing tion Tortola Triptolemus tropical vegetation Venus vessel Virgin Virgin Gorda voyage West Indian West Indies whence whilst wind
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Page 16 - The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.
Page 236 - I might say, element ; but the word is over-worn. [Exit. Vio. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool ; And, to do that well, craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; And, like the haggard', check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice, As full of labour as a wise man's art : For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit ; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.
Page 65 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth...
Page 82 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Page 290 - ... the seeds of all mischief, have no place with them. They are content with so little, that in so large a country they have rather superfluity than scarceness ; so that they seem to live in the golden world, without toil, living in open gardens ; not intrenched with dykes, divided with hedges, or defended with walls.
Page 92 - When orient dews impearl the enamell'd lawn ; Than from his sides in bright suffusion flow, That now with gold empyreal seem to glow; Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, And emulate the soft celestial hue; Now beam a flaming crimson on the eye, And now assume the purple's deeper dye : But here description clouds each shining ray; What terms of art can nature's powers display...
Page 65 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, the throne Of the invisible,— even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 286 - Island, some of our women, and men, by eating a small fruit like greene Apples, were fearefully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouthes, and swelling of their tongues so bigge, that some of them could not speake.
Page 66 - ... 23,888,000,000,000,000 ! From soundings made in the situation where these animals were found, it is probable the sea is upwards of a mile in depth ; but whether these substances occupy the whole depth is uncertain. Provided, however, the depth to which they extend be...
Page 92 - What radiant changes strike the astonish'd sight ! What glowing hues of mingled shade and light ! Not equal beauties gild the lucid west With parting beams all o'er profusely drest, Not lovelier colours paint the vernal dawn, When orient dews impearl the...