The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1846 - English literature |
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... fire - wood was the great risk which we ran ; for we were then obliged to land where there was wood . It was on the sixth day that we were first in danger . As we rounded a point , we fell in with another canoe with six or seven people ...
... fire - wood was the great risk which we ran ; for we were then obliged to land where there was wood . It was on the sixth day that we were first in danger . As we rounded a point , we fell in with another canoe with six or seven people ...
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... fire to warm ourselves , but could not succeed , so we laid down on one bear skin , and covered ourselves with the others , waiting impatiently for daylight . When the day dawned , the weather was worse than ever . We now looked out for ...
... fire to warm ourselves , but could not succeed , so we laid down on one bear skin , and covered ourselves with the others , waiting impatiently for daylight . When the day dawned , the weather was worse than ever . We now looked out for ...
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... fire . They had some pro- visions , but offered none to us . After an hour they laid down to sleep round the fire , placing me and the Portuguese captain next to the fire , and lying outside of us . They were soon fast asleep , or ...
... fire . They had some pro- visions , but offered none to us . After an hour they laid down to sleep round the fire , placing me and the Portuguese captain next to the fire , and lying outside of us . They were soon fast asleep , or ...
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... fire - arms and an open beach in our favour . We launched our canoe without further interruption on their part , and in a few minutes , taking care to be out of arrow distance , we passed the rock with our head to the northward . When ...
... fire - arms and an open beach in our favour . We launched our canoe without further interruption on their part , and in a few minutes , taking care to be out of arrow distance , we passed the rock with our head to the northward . When ...
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... fire and went to repose as before ; but this time they took our knives from us , and bound our legs so tight that they gave us much pain . I did not expostulate , as I knew it was useless . My companion , as the thong entered into his ...
... fire and went to repose as before ; but this time they took our knives from us , and bound our legs so tight that they gave us much pain . I did not expostulate , as I knew it was useless . My companion , as the thong entered into his ...
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Page 40 - To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale :— Look back! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract...
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Page 56 - His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Page 40 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Page 163 - His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, That grew the more by reaping: His delights Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The element they liv'd in: In his livery Walk'd crowns, and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pocket.
Page 56 - The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 56 - ... but man ; and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes, and ocean, deep below him, he appears indifferent to the...
Page 56 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
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Page 56 - ... glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes, and ocean, deep below him, he appears indifferent to the little localities of change of seasons ; as in a few minutes he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold, and from thence descend at will to the torrid or the arctic regions of the earth.