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Travel:

an illustrated monthly magazine, Volume 1, Issues 1-6 (Google eBook)
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Elisha Hollingsworth Talbot
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Travel publishing co., 1895 - Travel
  

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Page 40 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides,...
Page 146 - You'll have no scandal while you dine, But honest talk and wholesome wine, And only hear the magpie gossip Garrulous under a roof of pine: For groves of pine on either hand, To break the blast of winter, stand; And further on, the hoary Channel Tumbles a breaker on chalk and sand; Where, if below the milky steep Some ship of battle slowly creep, And on thro...
Page 40 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 219 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 132 - And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and...
Page 146 - Walk'd in the walks with me, Shadows of three dead men and thou wast one of the three. Nightingales sang in his woods: The Master was far away: Nightingales warbled and sang Of a passion that lasts but a day; Still in the house in his coffin the Prince of courtesy lay. Two dead men have I known In courtesy like to thee : Two dead men have I loved With a love that ever will be : Three dead men have I loved and thou art last of the three. THE FLOWER ONCE in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up...
Page 56 - Here's to the United States," said the first speaker, " bounded on the north by British America, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Page 40 - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 182 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Page 56 - Here's to the United States ! — bounded' on the north by the North Pole, on the south by the South Pole, on the east by the rising, and on the west by the setting sun ! " Emphatic applause greeted the aspiring prophecy.

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