Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake PlainsA. Hall, Virtue, 1859 - 362 |
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Strona 278 - Him to do what man cannot, to "turn the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just," to grant that they to whom Christ's gospel is hidden, shall at any rate not be the majority.
Strona 274 - Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for His goodness, and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men ! ' We will only describe one other scene.
Strona 339 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Strona 265 - I KNOW a lake where the cool waves break, And softly fall on the silver sand And no steps intrude on that solitude, And no voice, save mine, disturbs the strand. And a mountain bold like a giant of old Turned to stone by some magic spell. Uprears in might his misty height, And his craggy sides are wooded well.
Strona 147 - Instead of cutting the meat into strips and drying it (or jerking it, as the lumberers term it)." (The Canadian Crusoes, p. 186.) Even the Sandwich Islanders have given us some assistance in their word Kanaka, which with them means simply a man, but 4 which has, since the intercourse established between their distant home in the Pacific and California, become quite familiar to our ears, so that...
Strona 43 - ... Mid skies of calm and scowl of storm, Since from her port that ship hath gone ; But ocean keeps its secret well; And though we know that all is o'er, No eye hath seen — no tongue can tell Her fate : — she ne'er was heard of more ! Oh ! were her tale of sorrow known, 'Twere something to the broken heart ; The pangs of doubt would then be gone, And Fancy's endless dreams depart...
Strona 346 - ... o'erspread, Its birth-place was shaded by shrubs at its head ; 'Twas onward impell'd by its kindred more strong, And driven from home it went murmuring along. In indolent ease on the bank I reclin'd, And gazed on the stream, till awoke in my mind A thought of the joys in its windings 'twould yield, To the birds of the air and the beasts of the field...
Strona 16 - Alas for poor Catharine ! she now found that parting with her patient was a source of the deepest sorrow to her young and guileless heart ; nor was Duncan less moved at the separation from his gentle nurse. It might be for years, and it might be for ever, he could not tell; but he could not tear himself away without telling the object of his affections how dear she was to him, and to whisper a hope that he might yet return one day to claim her as his bride; and Catharine, weeping and blushing, promised...
Strona 14 - Ontario, was but a village in embryo — if it contained even a loghouse or a block-house it was all that it did, and the wild and picturesque ground upon which the fast increasing village of Port Hope is situated, had not yielded one forest tree to the axe of the settler.