The Pilgrim of ScandinaviaS. Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875 - 219 pages |
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... season , several shiploads , each of 300 or 400 horses at once , left this country , no doubt for the mines in England . With regard to our journey , the afternoon of that second day found us after five and thirty miles ( our horses ...
... season , several shiploads , each of 300 or 400 horses at once , left this country , no doubt for the mines in England . With regard to our journey , the afternoon of that second day found us after five and thirty miles ( our horses ...
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... season . This was Thingvalla , the largest lake in Iceland , so celebrated in the past . My own impressions , on first seeing this distinctly , were that I had seen it before : an island in the centre , another one toward the side , a ...
... season . This was Thingvalla , the largest lake in Iceland , so celebrated in the past . My own impressions , on first seeing this distinctly , were that I had seen it before : an island in the centre , another one toward the side , a ...
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... season of these eider ducks , either upon the islands , or within a certain distance of the coast , so great is the esteem in which the people hold this bird , as nearly to remind one of Except some very valuable pieces and of great ...
... season of these eider ducks , either upon the islands , or within a certain distance of the coast , so great is the esteem in which the people hold this bird , as nearly to remind one of Except some very valuable pieces and of great ...
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... season being nearly over ) made it a beautiful evening . Every one remained on deck , some enlivened it by a few songs - and whatever have been written in Icelandic appear likely to outlive the light and fugitive pieces in Swedish or ...
... season being nearly over ) made it a beautiful evening . Every one remained on deck , some enlivened it by a few songs - and whatever have been written in Icelandic appear likely to outlive the light and fugitive pieces in Swedish or ...
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... season for their young is over ; but Iceland is scattered over with lakes innumerable , often in the mountains , generally on the border of some plain . And in such lakes there is an Ossianic mystery , a wild sweetness . Often have I ...
... season for their young is over ; but Iceland is scattered over with lakes innumerable , often in the mountains , generally on the border of some plain . And in such lakes there is an Ossianic mystery , a wild sweetness . Often have I ...
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able ancient appeared arrived became began Bergen boat built called church close coast coming considerable continued course crossed custom Danish deep Denmark described direction distance early earth entered face feel feet fire Fjord four give given Gudmundr half hand head hear height hope horses Iceland island keep kind king lake land language late leave less light live look Majesty miles morning mountains natural never night Norway Norwegian once pass past piece possible present Prince region Reikjavik reindeer rest rising river rock round sail season seen sent ship shore side sight snow soon spread stone taken took traveller Trondhjem turned wanted whole wind winter
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Page 129 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 32 - Thy shadow, and the darkness of thy steps And my heart ever gazes on the depth Of thy deep mysteries. I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won from thee, Hoping to still these obstinate questionings Of thee and thine, by forcing some lone ghost, Thy messenger, to render up the tale Of what we are.
Page 51 - Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador; From the tumbling surf, that buries The Orkneyan skerries, Answering the hoarse Hebrides; And from wrecks of ships, and drifting Spars, uplifting On the desolate, rainy seas, — Ever drifting, drifting, drifting On the shifting Currents of the restless main; Till in sheltered coves, and reaches Of sandy beaches, All have found repose again.
Page 132 - Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the northeast ; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused like a frighted steed.
Page 180 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and...
Page 120 - Such as gleam in ancient lore ; And the singing of the sailors, And the answer from the shore ! Most of all, the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft, and tarries long, Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song. Like the long waves on a sea-beach...
Page 182 - Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done, While our slumbrous spells assail ye, Dream not with the rising sun, Bugles here shall sound reveille. Sleep ! the deer is in his den ; Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying; Sleep ! nor dream in yonder glen, How thy gallant steed lay dying. Huntsman, rest ! thy chase is done, Think not of the rising sun, For at dawning to assail ye, Here no bugles sound reveille.
Page 180 - With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, — if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank...
Page 43 - In the foreground was a group of silent peasant girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, and looking, now up at the sky, now down into the water; in the distance, a deep bell; the shade of approaching night on everything.
Page 98 - Iceland moss, in the uninhabited parts of the country.. They have, generally, a man or two with them: and the few weeks they spend in this employment in the desert, are regarded as the happiest of the whole year. They live in tents, which they remove from place to place, according to the greater or less abundance of the moss.