Round the World in 1870: An Account of a Brief Tour Made Through India, China, Japan, California, and South AmericaH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 408 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Banda Oriental bank beautiful Benares broad Buenos Ayres buildings Calcutta Callao Canton Cape Pillar Cawnpore China Chinese coast colour coolies Cordova course distance English estancia European feet flat foot foreign garden gauchos gharry green half handsome Hankow harbour height hills Himalayas Hongkong horses houses hundred island Japan Japanese kind Kobé land large number leave look Lucknow mid-day morning mountains Mussoorie Nagasaki narrow native nearly neighbouring night Ningpo Osaca palkees Pampas pass Penang perhaps picturesque plain port Punta Arenas quarter railway reach ride ridge rise river road rock round running San Francisco scarcely scene seems Shanghae Shogun shops shore side Sierra sight slopes stand steamer stone Strait stream streets summit surrounded tea-houses temple Tocaido town traveller trees valley Valparaiso vessel village voyage walk walls wind wood yards Yedo Yokohama
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 213 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower Glistering with dew, fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
الصفحة 250 - Against the eastern gate of Paradise Levell'd his evening rays ; it was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicuous far, winding with one ascent Accessible from earth, one entrance high ; The rest was craggy cliff, that overhung Still as it rose, impossible to climb.
الصفحة 157 - It is said of man morally, that the whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint — that from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, there is no soundness in him.
الصفحة 17 - About me round I saw hill dale and shady woods and sunny plains, and liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these, creatures that lived and moved and walked or flew ; birds on the branches warbling : all things smiled ; with fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
الصفحة 281 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.
الصفحة 55 - Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
الصفحة 17 - Stood on my feet, about me, round, I saw Hill, dale, and shady wood, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams ; by these , Creatures that lived and moved, and walk'd or flew. Birds on the branches warbling ; all things smiled With fragrance ; and with joy my heart o'erflow'd.
الصفحة 348 - Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat, Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove ! From these the prospect varies. Plains immense Lie stretch'd below, interminable meads, And vast savannahs, where the wandering eye, Unfixt, is in a verdant ocean lost.
الصفحة 121 - Former customers have inspired caution, — no credit given." "A small stream always flowing."
الصفحة vii - This narrative of a tour round the world is intended to be an easy, truthful, and interesting account of the men and manners, of the various objects of interest, natural and artificial, seen in the different countries visited. The entire tour occupied thirteen months. " We can only commend, which we do very heartily, an eminently sensible and readable book." — British Quarterly Review. " Mr. Carlisle's account of his little outing is exhilarating and charming.