An Eastern Tour at Home.D McKay, 1889 - 286 من الصفحات |
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... comes with a tourist's narrative . The book , besides the general interest always aroused by vividly- described travel , is valuable because of the interwoven facts , data , history , tradition , poetry , and anecdote that exhibit the ...
... comes with a tourist's narrative . The book , besides the general interest always aroused by vividly- described travel , is valuable because of the interwoven facts , data , history , tradition , poetry , and anecdote that exhibit the ...
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... come gradually into sight to the north- ward . Then higher hills are seen , at first dimly blue in the long view over ... comes out from among these hills , and the Raritan CROSSING NEW JERSEY . 9 River that drains them , 8 AN EASTERN TOUR .
... come gradually into sight to the north- ward . Then higher hills are seen , at first dimly blue in the long view over ... comes out from among these hills , and the Raritan CROSSING NEW JERSEY . 9 River that drains them , 8 AN EASTERN TOUR .
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... come upon Paulus Hook , the tongue of land , with its rocky backbone of Ber- gen Hill , which is thrust out between Newark Bay and the Hudson River . Our railway avoids the hill by going around its lower end , while the others have to ...
... come upon Paulus Hook , the tongue of land , with its rocky backbone of Ber- gen Hill , which is thrust out between Newark Bay and the Hudson River . Our railway avoids the hill by going around its lower end , while the others have to ...
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... come in all the lines from the West excepting the New York Central , and from these dépôts and wharves their rails extend to the most re- mote parts of the continent . Yet Jersey City is entirely a growth of the present century , at the ...
... come in all the lines from the West excepting the New York Central , and from these dépôts and wharves their rails extend to the most re- mote parts of the continent . Yet Jersey City is entirely a growth of the present century , at the ...
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... come forward to the Hudson River bank in the grand escarpment of the Palisades , stretching to the northward . These remarkable columnar formations , ex- tending for twenty miles along the western shore of the river , are of trap rock ...
... come forward to the Hudson River bank in the grand escarpment of the Palisades , stretching to the northward . These remarkable columnar formations , ex- tending for twenty miles along the western shore of the river , are of trap rock ...
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الصفحة 122 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
الصفحة 129 - THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies...
الصفحة 129 - A h ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony...
الصفحة 114 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She...
الصفحة 170 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
الصفحة 149 - Albany ; — a project, which every one knows, — who knows the simplest rules in arithmetic, — to be impracticable but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts; and which, if practicable, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the Moon.
الصفحة 254 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
الصفحة 238 - Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on for evermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light...
الصفحة 169 - This man was, indeed, of a particular humour, and he would never join himself to any of our churches, giving this reason for it: "I came from England, because I did not like the lord-bishops; but I can't join with you, because I would not be under the lord-brethren.
الصفحة 246 - Maine ! But many a keel shall seaward turn, And many a sail outstand, When, tall and white, the Dead Ship looms Against the dusk of land.