At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies, Volumen1Macmillan and Company, 1871 |
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aloft amid asphalt beautiful believe beneath birds blazing Boca boughs brown bush cacao called Caripe Chacon Chaguaramas civilization cliff coco-nut Cocorite coloured Coolie crimson Dâaga dark English estates eyes fancy feet high Fer-de-lance fish flowers forest French fresh fruit garden green cloud Grenada grey growing Guacharo Guadaloupe Gulf Gulf of Paria head heard Heliconia hills huge island ladies land least leaves light look mangrove Martinique Matapalos miles monkeys Moriche palms mountain Negro never night northern Obeah once palm Palmistes pitch plants poisonous Port of Spain primæval probably purple rock roots round San Josef Savanna seemed seen shade ship shore side soil Spaniards Spanish spider spider monkey spot stem strange surf tall things tree Trinidad tropic vegetation Virgin Gorda West Indian West Indies whole wild wonder wood yards yellow young
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Página 264 - Tis the noon of autumn's glow, When a soft and purple mist Like a vaporous amethyst, Or an air-dissolved star Mingling light and fragrance, far From the curved horizon's bound To the point of Heaven's profound, Fills the overflowing sky; And the plains that silent lie Underneath, the leaves unsodden Where the infant Frost has trodden With his morning-winged feet, Whose bright print is gleaming yet...
Página 264 - The rough, dark-skirted wilderness; The dun and bladed grass no less, Pointing from this hoary tower In the windless air...
Página 5 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Página 246 - It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Página 1 - I should see the West Indies and the Spanish Main. From childhood I had studied their natural history, their charts, their romances, and alas ! their tragedies ; and now at last I was about to compare books with facts, and judge for myself of the reported wonders of the earthly paradise.
Página 312 - Nature; and, terrified, man himself flies from the arena of his actions, leaving the impoverished earth to barbarous races or to animals, so long as yet another spot in virgin beauty smiles before him. Here, again, in selfish pursuit of profit, and, consciously or unconsciously, following the abominable principle oi the great moral vileness which one man has expressed—' Apres nous le deluge/ he begins anew the work of destruction.
Página 5 - Here die I, Richard Grenvile, with a joyful and quiet mind; for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honour: my soul willingly departing from this body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every valiant soldier is in his duty bound to do.
Página 75 - ... merciless, ruled his crew by terror. As an instance of his savage humour, it is related that on one occasion, in a drinking bout, he blew out the light and fired two pistols among his companions, wounding Israel Hands, his sailing master, severely. On being asked why he did it, he damned them, and said if he did not kill one of them now and then, they would forget who he was.
Página 72 - Castellani in respect of their tyranny and oppression, and that she delivered all such nations about her, as were by them oppressed, and having freed all the coast of the northern world from their servitude had sent me to free them also, and withal to defend the country of Guiana from their invasion and conquest.
Página 136 - ... they are placed, and which in some sort determines the character of the landscape. What a contrast between the Cueva of Caripe and those caverns of the north crowned with oaks and gloomy larch-trees ! " But this luxury of vegetation embellishes not only the outside of the vault, it appears even in the vestibule of the grotto.