The gallery of geography, a tour of the world. 6 divisions, Volume 3; Volume 831882 |
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Page 557 - In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent.
Page 434 - Traced like a map, the landscape lies In cultured beauty stretching wide ; There, Pentland's green acclivities ; There, Ocean, with its azure tide ; There, Arthur's seat ; and gleaming through Thy southern wing, Dunedin blue ! While, in the orient, Lammer's daughters, A distant giant range are seen, — North Berwick Law, with cone of green, And Bass amid the waters.
Page 467 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 407 - Which, pois'd by magic, rests its central weight On yonder pointed rock : firm as it seems, Such is its strange, and virtuous property, It moves obsequious to the gentlest touch Of him whose heart is pure, but to a traitor, Tho' e'en a giant's prowess nerv'd his arm, It stands as fix'd as — Snowdon.
Page 471 - A lofty pillar, rising from a bastion which bore during many weeks the heaviest fire of the enemy, is seen far up and far down the Foyle. On the summit is the statue of Walker, such as when, in the last and most terrible emergency, his eloquence roused the fainting courage of his brethren. In one hand he grasps a Bible. The other, pointing down the river, seems to direct the eyes of his famished audience to the English...
Page 442 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.
Page 429 - The braes ascend like lofty wa's, The foaming stream deep-roaring fa's, O'erhung wi' fragrant spreading shaws, The birks of Aberfeldy.
Page 458 - The south-western part of Kerry is now well known as the most beautiful tract in the British isles. The mountains, the glens, the capes stretching far into the Atlantic, the crags on which the eagles build, the rivulets brawling down rocky passes, the lakes overhung by groves in which the wild deer find covert, attract every summer crowds of wanderers sated with the business and the pleasures of great cities.
Page 541 - III. courted an alliance with them, and was a visitor, with his queen, when his third son, who is commonly called after the town, John of Gaunt, was born. The emperor Charles V. was likewise born at Ghent ; the compact of the provinces of the Netherlands against the tyranny of Spain, in 1578, was drawn up within its walls ; and here the treaty of peace was signed between Great Britain and the United States, after the brief war of 1814. One of its most curious features is the...
Page 549 - HOLLAND. A COUNTRY that draws fifty foot of water, In which men live, as in the hold of Nature ; And when the sea does in upon them break, And drown a province, does but spring a leak...