Our Garrisons in the West: Or, Sketches in British North AmericaChapman and Hall, 1861 - 319 Seiten |
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Seite 103 - Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven...
Seite 69 - Heaven. For the heart whose woes are legion Tis a peaceful, soothing region For the spirit that walks in shadow Tis - oh, 'tis an Eldorado! But the traveller, travelling through it, May not - dare not openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed; So wills its king, who hath forbid The uplifting of the fringed lid; And thus the sad Soul that here passes Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
Seite 69 - By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule — From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE — out of TIME.
Seite 9 - I have follow'd thro' the world, And I will pay you worship; tread me down And I will kiss you for it; ' he was mute: So dark a forethought roll'd about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall In silence: wherefore, when she lifted up A face of sad appeal, and spake and said, 'O Merlin, do ye love me ? ' and again, 'O Merlin, do ye love me?
Seite 68 - THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir : It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Seite 227 - Thus the land is certainly planted, but it is planted with the worst of weeds, according to the ingenious experiment suggested, in the Tempest, for Prospero's island : — ' Gonzalo. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord .... Antonio. He'd sow it with nettle seed.
Seite 102 - Still stands the forest primeval ; but under the shade of its branches Dwells another race, with other customs and language. Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile Wandered back to their native land to die in its bosom.
Seite 77 - Then he beheld, in a dream, once more the home of his childhood ; Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers among them, Village, and mountain, and woodlands; and, walking under their shadow, As in the days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision.
Seite 111 - Plerique eorum , qui ante me sententias dixerunt, composite atque magnifice casum rei publicae miserati sunt; quae belli saevitia esset, quae victis acciderent, enumeravere ; rapi virgines, pueros; divelli liberos a parentum complexu; matres familiarum pati, quae victoribus conlibuissent; fana atque domos spoliari ; caedem, incendia fieri; postremo armis, cadaveribus, cruore atque luctu omnia compleri.