Vagamundo; Or, the Attaché in Spain: Including a Brief Excursion Into the Empire of Morocco

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C. Scribner, 1851 - 292 עמודים
 

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עמוד 170 - As we journeyed on, a trifling incident occurred which very favourably disposed us towards the peasantry of Spain. A large party of field-labourers, attired in scarlet jackets and sashes, were returning to their homes after the toils of the day, and were singing in unison a lively song, in token of the happiness within their hearts. The sun was 'now sinking behind the hills, and the stars of evening were beginning to gem the vast canopy of heaven. A soft and rich twilight gave a sweet mellowness...
עמוד 170 - ... to gem the vast canopy of heaven. A soft and rich twilight gave a sweet mellowness to the features of the surrounding landscape, infusing thoughts of romance and poetry into our minds, and making everything appear to us like the scenery of a picture or a dream. As we reached the body of peasantry, they immediately separated to each side of the road, and as we passed between them, they saluted us with the beautiful expression, " Vaga V. con Dios
עמוד 24 - The Spanish maid is no coquette, Nor joys to see a lover tremble ; And if she love, or if she hate, Alike she knows not to dissemble. Her heart can ne'er be bought or sold — Howe'er it beats, it beats sincerely ; And, though it will not bend to gold, 'Twill love you long, and love you dearly.
עמוד 286 - ... the physiology of fruit trees, the theory and practice of all operations connected with the propagation, transplanting, pruning and training of orchard and garden trees, as standards, dwarfs, pyramids, espaliers, etc., the laying out and arranging different kinds of orchards and gardens...
עמוד 286 - A TREATISE, INTENDED TO EXPLAIN AND ILLUSTRATE THE PHYSIology of Fruit Trees, the Theory and Practice of all Operations connected with the Propagation, Transplanting, Pruning and Training of Orchard and Garden Trees, as Standards, Dwarfs, Pyramids, Espalier, &c.
עמוד 287 - ... volume. Its quaint ingenuity of arrangement is wholly lost in extracts; and in order to enjoy the delicious adaptation of form to sentiment in which it would be bard to name its equal, it must be read as a consummate, artistic^gem-like whole."— NY Tribune.
עמוד 291 - Dickens gives to millions, usin: earelessly, profusely, andjolily, two or three of the rarest qualities of genius. For that power of unexpected parallelism, which brings together, suddenly and laughably, the most distant opposites in grotesque similitude ; for the quick analysis of a thought or feeling which supplies material for wit; for the genial and irresistible humor which makes what people familiarize by the phrase 'the merriest fellow in the world,' we hardly know the equal of the author of...
עמוד 292 - The work is written in a style that would not discredit older and more practiced authors. We have read the volume from its first to its...
עמוד 161 - ... Almost any matter of local intelligence you may be sure to obtain from your barber, whose acquaintance, therefore, is well worthy of being cultivated. The highest class of Spanish Figaros are but little below the medical professors in social rank. They are licensed to use the lancet and apply leeches, these being operations which the doctors almost invariably decline to perform. As for myself, I would as soon consent to be bled by one of these fellows as by a more solemn practitioner, though,...
עמוד 285 - Bottle for Jack in the Doldrums; being the Adventures of Two of the King's Seamen on a voyage to the Celestial Country.

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