Transatlantic Sketches: Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With Notes on Negro Slavery and Canadian Emigration, Količina 1Key and Biddle, 1833 - 378 strani |
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American Arrawak banks Barbadoes barracks beautiful boat Bridgetown British British Guiana Bytown Canada canal canes canoe captain cassava church climate coast colony colour comfortable Cuba cultivated dollars dreadful Dutch emigrants England English Essequibo estates excellent eyes fall feet fish forest French friends Guiana hand handsome harbour Havannah head heard heavy hills honour horses houses hundred hurricane Indians inhabitants island Kingston labour ladies lake land leaves live look maize miles military Mississippi morning mountain negroes night noble officers Orleans passed passengers plantains planters Port of Spain Quebec rain remarked Rideau Canal river road rocks round sailed scene schooner seen settlers ship shore side slaves soil Spanish Stabroek stood stream streets sugar thousand tion town trees Trinidad Upper Canada vessels Wakenaam walked West Indies whilst wild wind wood yellow fever young
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Stran 213 - Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Stran 111 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Stran 313 - The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe, And drive the wedge, in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task...
Stran 26 - ... lively prospects, hills so raised here and there over the valleys, the river winding into divers branches, the plains adjoining without bush or stubble, all fair green grass, the ground of hard sand, easy to march on either for horse or foot, the deer crossing in every path, the birds towards the evening singing on every tree with a thousand several tunes, cranes and herons of white, crimson, and carnation, perching on the river's side, the air fresh, with a gentle easterly wind ; and every stone...
Stran 263 - But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow! Thy face was like the sun after rain; like the moon in the silence of night; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid.
Stran 169 - It Is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord : and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High; To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning: and thy faithfulness every night.
Stran 131 - I will go to my tent, and lie down in despair ; I will paint me with black, and will sever my hair ; I will sit on the shore, where the hurricane blows, And reveal to the god of the tempest my woes ; I will weep for a season, on bitterness fed, For my kindred are gone to the hills of the dead ; But they died not by hunger, or lingering decay ; The steel of the white man hath swept them away.
Stran 109 - I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Stran 124 - And he went forth — alone! not one of all The many whom he loved, nor she whose name Was woven in the fibres of the heart Breaking within him now, to come and speak Comfort unto him. Yea — he went his way, Sick and heart-broken, and alone — to die! — For God had cursed the leper! It was noon, And...
Stran 375 - ... not already gone; and that no structure which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial.