Great Rivers of the World: As Seen and Described by Famous WritersEsther Singleton Dodd, Mead, 1908 - 358 ページ |
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Abbey ancient Anio Aqua Avon beautiful boats bridge called canal Cañon castle Castleconnell channel charm church cliffs colour Congo course crossed Danube delta descends Diarbekr distance east Euphrates fall famous feet fish floating floods flows Folly Bridge forest Ganges gorge green half a mile Hare Indian height hills houses Hudson hundred Indian islands junction La Bouille Lake land landscape length Loch Lock Loire Lough Derg Lough Ree lower Mackenzie meadows Meuse mile wide mountains mouth narrow navigable nearly Niagara Niger Nile Oise passed picturesque plain plateau poplars Portumna Potomac rapids reached Rhine right bank rises river rock Roman Romney Lock round ruins sail scenery Sha-shih shore side spires square miles steamer stream Tarbert Thames Tiber Tigris tower town traveller trees tributaries valley village Volga walls width wind wooded Yangtse Chiang yards
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295 ページ - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
35 ページ - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
277 ページ - This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States ; and I have just given to England a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride.
276 ページ - It is the Hudson, the Delaware, the Potomac, and all the navigable rivers of the Atlantic states, formed into one stream.
275 ページ - Western people, " is ours* by the law of nature ; it belongs to us by our numbers, and by the labor which we have bestowed on those spots which, before our arrival, were desert and barren. Our innumerable rivers swell it, and flow with it into the Gulf of Mexico. Its mouth is the only issue which nature has given to our waters, and we wish to use it for our vessels. No power in the world shall deprive us of this right.
345 ページ - Many waves are there agitated by the wind, keeping nature fresh, the spray blowing in your face, reeds and rushes waving ; ducks by the hundred, all uneasy in the surf, in the raw wind, just ready to rise, and now going off with a clatter and a whistling like riggers straight for Labrador, flying against the stiff gale with reefed wings, or else circling round first, with all their paddles briskly moving, just over the surf, to...
295 ページ - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,* Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rums gray.
346 ページ - The respectable folks, — Where dwell they? They whisper in the oaks, And they sigh in the hay; Summer and winter, night and day, Out on the meadow, there dwell they. They never die, Nor snivel nor cry, Nor ask our pity With a wet eye. A sound estate they ever mend, To every asker readily lend; To the ocean wealth, To the meadow health, To Time his length, To the rocks strength, To the stars light, To the weary night, To the busy day, To the idle play; And so their good cheer never ends, For all...
30 ページ - To the eye educated to any other, it may be shocking, grotesque, incomprehensible ; but " those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Canon of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles.
309 ページ - The vast comparative erosive energy of the Horseshoe Fall comes strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the Niagara. Here the Horseshoe Fall was the real excavator. It cut the rock and formed the precipice over which the American Fall tumbles. But since its formation, the erosive action of the American Fall has been almost nil, while the Horseshoe has cut its way for 500 yards across the...