Desultory Sketches and Tales of BarbadosH. Washbourne, 1840 - 264 pages |
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... Island of Barbados , he must do himself the credit to say that he is influenced by a stronger motive- one which induces him to hope , that the contents of a volume , trivial enough in itself , may lead to more general and impartial ...
... Island of Barbados , he must do himself the credit to say that he is influenced by a stronger motive- one which induces him to hope , that the contents of a volume , trivial enough in itself , may lead to more general and impartial ...
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... - house , to which they probably form an avenue that had been planted a long time ago by the hand of the hospitable master of the mansion . The older inhabitants of the island seemed indeed to have 6 DESULTORY SKETCHES , AND.
... - house , to which they probably form an avenue that had been planted a long time ago by the hand of the hospitable master of the mansion . The older inhabitants of the island seemed indeed to have 6 DESULTORY SKETCHES , AND.
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The older inhabitants of the island seemed indeed to have delighted in these beautiful trees , for scarce a country - house exists that can boast of having any pretensions to being " time honoured , " that has not its " cabbage walk ...
The older inhabitants of the island seemed indeed to have delighted in these beautiful trees , for scarce a country - house exists that can boast of having any pretensions to being " time honoured , " that has not its " cabbage walk ...
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... island as my limited time would permit me to do . I therefore dispatched Compasses with an assurance that I would be with his master in a few days , and would send for his phaeton from Speights - town , to which place it was my ...
... island as my limited time would permit me to do . I therefore dispatched Compasses with an assurance that I would be with his master in a few days , and would send for his phaeton from Speights - town , to which place it was my ...
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... Island Legislature , which had surrendered to them the remaining period of their apprenticeship . My informant , a man of about fifty years of age , of unassuming man- ners , and with a slightly foreign accent , was an intelligent and ...
... Island Legislature , which had surrendered to them the remaining period of their apprenticeship . My informant , a man of about fifty years of age , of unassuming man- ners , and with a slightly foreign accent , was an intelligent and ...
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Page 37 - tis where yon woods are waving, In their dark richness, to the summer air ; Where yon blue stream, a thousand flower-banks laving, Leads down the hills a vein of light, — 'tis there! 'Midst those green wilds how many a fount lies gleaming, Fringed with the violet, colour'd with the skies ! My boyhood's haunt, through days of summer dreaming.
Page 158 - ... out of the centre of the leaves. Their quick spontaneous motion, from one side to the other of this circular border of seeming leaves, which, in reality, were so many arms or feelers, and their closing together like a forceps, as if they had hemmed in their prey, which the yellow border likewise soon surrounded and closed to secure, fully convinced me that it was a living creature. Its body, at a distance, appears to be about as big as a raven's quill, and of a blackish colour ; the one end sticking...
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Page 198 - Poor creatures ! theirgood looks were sadly changed. All save the blacks seem'd jaded with vexation, From friends, and home, and freedom far estranged ; The negroes more philosophy display 'd, — Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flay'd. (') VIII. Juan was juvenile, and thus was full, As most at his age are, of hope, and health ; Yet I must own, he look'da little dull, And now and then a tear stole down by stealth ; Perhaps his recent loss of blood might pull His spirit down ; and then the...
Page 111 - Lamentings heard i' the air, strange screams of death, xxviii Of dire combustion and confus'd events New hatch'd to the woful time: the obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth Was feverous and did shake. MACBETH. 'Twas a rough night. LENOX. My young remembrance cannot parallel A fellow to it.
Page 256 - So far this is well ; but the over estimate of himself, which self-importance is apt to engender in his present comparatively unenlightened condition, is attended with many evils...