Ursula: A Tale of Country Life, Том 1

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B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 страница
 

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Страница 164 - ... sparkling with silver and blue some hundreds of feet beneath them. A lovely scene it is ! There is a verse spoken of a very different country, which often comes to my mind when I think of it : — ' It is a land which the Lord thy God careth for The eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Страница 139 - And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times : and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded. And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD shall be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed, for ever.
Страница 11 - ... coast forms part of a great bay indented by smaller ones. The shore is closed in with red sandcliffs, rather low, broken, and jagged ; but away to the west the red sand changes into chalk, and the cliffs become very steep, and rise to a great height ; standing out against the sky when the sun shines on them, until they almost dazzle the eye ; and at other times covering themselves, as it were, with a bluish veil of mist, and looking out proudly from behind it.
Страница 164 - The ground is tossed about in every direction, and huge rocks lie scattered upon it. But thorns, and chestnuts, and ash trees have sprung up amongst them upon the greensward ; ivy has climbed up the ledges of the jagged cliffs ; primroses cluster upon the banks ; cowslips glitter on the turf ; and masses of hyacinths may be seen in glades, half hidden by the foliage of the thick trees, and through which the jutting masses of gray rock peep out upon the open sea, sparkling with silver and blue some...
Страница 6 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Страница 163 - a broad tract of land, tossed up and down in little hills and valleys. It is scattered all over with huge rocks, which look as though giants had thrown them about in their play, and it slopes down in a steep descent towards the sea. A dreary-looking country it is, but it has a charm even for that very reason. As a child I only saw it occasionally, and always thought of it as connected with haunts of smugglers and wild storms; roaring waves and shipwrecks, and heavy sea-mists, gathering over...
Страница 220 - My first thought was inevitably, as it were, only of myself. It seemed to me that I had nothing to do but to abandon at once a cherished dream, and probably to renounce authorship. For I had not first made up my mind to write a history, and then cast about to take up a subject. My subject had taken me up, drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself.
Страница 191 - If there is one thing I hate more than another, it is such a sneaking varlet as that Dwining !" " Have a care he does not hear you say so,
Страница 163 - ... a charm even for that very reason. As a child I only saw it occasionally, and always thought of it as connected with haunts of smugglers and wild storms; roaring waves and shipwrecks, and heavy sea-mists, gathering over the hills and shutting out the light, which was the only hope of the seaman's safety. It must have been a fierce time on earth when the land sank away from the upper cliffs, and the rocks were hurled down, and the streams, which have now worked their way through the lower cliffs,...

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