Tales of the Spanish MainMacmillan and Company, 1901 - 357 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Tales of the Spanish Main (Classic Reprint) <span dir=ltr>Mowbray Morris</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד iii - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And the Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. Longfellow.
עמוד 102 - another and a newer world. Below his feet stretched a vast expanse of rock and forest, of green plains and winding streams, and beyond this again, spreading southwards far as the eye could go, lay glittering in the morning light the waters of the promised sea. Since Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo,
עמוד 79 - swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortes when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien. With
עמוד 155 - besought Almighty God of His goodness, to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship on that sea !' And then calling up all the rest of our men, he acquainted John Oxenham especially with this his petition and purpose
עמוד 102 - might have been said to this Spaniard : " I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither." Balboa had discovered the sea, but
עמוד 74 - have always shown to your Majesties' service, and the so unmerited outrage with which it has been repaid, will not allow my soul to keep silence, however much I may wish it : I implore your Highnesses to forgive my complaints. I am indeed in as ruined a condition as I have related.
עמוד 268 - whether it were buried in the sea or on the land, we know not ; the comfort that remaineth to his friends is that he hath ended his life honourably in respect of the reputation won to his nation and country, and of the same to his posterity, and that, being dead, he hath not outlived his own honour.
עמוד 321 - who were never out of their mothers' kitchens, may ask how these pirates could eat, swallow, and digest those pieces of leather so hard and dry : to whom I only answer that, could they once experiment what hunger, or rather famine is, they would certainly find the manner, by their own necessity, as the pirates did.
עמוד 181 - a mighty river which toucheth no part of the side of the mountain, but rusheth over the top of it, and falleth to the ground with a terrible noise and clamour, as if one thousand great bells were knocked one against another.
עמוד 199 - those commanders and chieftains, that shoot at honour and abundance, shall find there more rich and beautiful cities, more temples adorned with golden images, more sepulchres filled with treasure, than either Cortez found in Mexico or Pizarro in Peru.