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Page 235 - Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides ; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand ; Divine in...
Page 34 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Page 136 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Page 287 - HAST thou left thy blue course in heaven, golden-haired son of the sky ! The west has opened its gates ; the bed of thy repose is there. The waves come to behold thy beauty. They lift their trembling heads. They see thee lovely in thy sleep ; they shrink away with fear. Rest, in thy shadowy cave, 0 sun! let thy return be in joy.
Page 33 - Come on, Sir, here's the place ; stand still ! how fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ? The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles.
Page 406 - I am fully convinced it only wants a government strong and stable enough to ensure the necessary protection to capital and property, to render it one of the most flourishing countries in the world. I look back upon the few weeks I spent there as amongst the most enjoyable I ever passed ; and if ever any opportunity was to offer of revisiting that delicious country, I should do so with pleasure. Any traveller, wishing to judge for himself, has only to go by the West India steamer to St. Thomas, where...
Page 297 - It was so loud that, when standing full twenty yards from the tree where it was in operation, the sound was so shrill, that you had to raise your voice considerably to address your neighbour. The entomological productions of the tropics struck me as being quite as astonishing iu size and nature as the botanical or zoological wonders.
Page 117 - They are a wild people ; their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them.
Page 360 - ... hottest season, there is generally some dew to lay the dust, and the air 'is, of course, cooler. People generally start after an early dinner; and as the night falls, the torch is lighted and held by one of the bearers, who runs along with it by the side of the palankeen. The torch, at first, may be about four feet long, and nearly as thick as a man's arm; it is made of rags and strips of cotton, well saturated with oil and grease, and then wound into a firm cylinder. The flame is supplied with...
Page 361 - ... with Immense force ; and a gentleman who had examined a man after having been struck in the thigh and died, told the narrator that the wound was as if two four-inch nails had been driven into the flesh. As the poison oozes out from the extremity of the fang, any hope of being cured after a bite is small, as it is evident that no external application could have any immediate effect on a poison deposited an inch and a half or two inches below the surface; the instantaneousness of the death depends...