All the World Over, Volume 1Edwin Hodder T. Cook, 1876 |
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Algeria Algiers ancient Arab Ardennes Areopagus ascended Athens Batna beauty Blidah Blonay boat called carriage castle Cathedral century Chablais charming church coast coffee colour Comacchio curious dark distance eels English eyes Eyrarbakki fairy feet fish fjord Fritz Geneva German Geysirs Guelma hand head hills horses hundred Icelandic Ischl island journey Kabyles king ladies lagoon lake land laughing lava legend Leila Llandudno look Lübeck miles Monti morning mountain Naples native never night Norway Nuremberg once palace party pass Percy Philippeville picturesque plain pleasant railway river road rock Roman Rosalind round ruins Salis Sarzana scene scenery seen shore side sight spot stand station steamer stone summit tapu temple Theresa tour tourist town Traunkirchen traveller trees valley Vaud Vevey village Von Salis walk walls wild wind
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Page 66 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...
Page 67 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest - if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 1 - Keep not standing fixed and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam ; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart are still at home. " In what land the sun does visit, Brisk are we, whate'er betide : To give space for wandering is it That the world was made so wide.
Page 40 - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Page 66 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies
Page 134 - Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom ? Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom ? Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose ? Know'st thou it ? Thither ! O thither, My dearest and kindest, with thee would I go.
Page 37 - Around it, to the north and east, the traveller looks down on the zone of lofty hills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried far over undulating plains, threaded by rivers like cords of silver, till in the purple distance the glitter of the sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian...
Page 235 - ALL hail the power of Jesus' name ! Let angels prostrate fall ; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown him Lord of all.
Page iii - Keep not standing, fixed and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam : Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart, are still at home. In each land the sun does visit: We are gay whate'er betide. To give room for wand'ring is it That the world was made so wide.
Page 122 - THIS region, surely, is not of the earth.* Was it not dropt from heaven? Not a grove, Citron or pine or cedar, not a grot Sea-worn and mantled with the gadding vine, * Un pezzo di cielo caduto in terra.