The Isles of Summer, Or, Nassau and the Bahamas |
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Abaco abundant appearance Bahama air Bahama Islands banks beautiful birds blue boat brown Charles Burnside climate cocoanut color Columbus Conch coral Corey cross cuttle fish dark disease exquisitely favorable feet Florida flowers Fort Fincastle Fort Montague fruit garden Governor green ground growth Gulf Gulf Stream happy harbor hill Hog Island hundred hurricane Inagua inches inhabitants isles keys lady land large number leaves light live looking miles Nassau negroes never night northern ocean One-half natural pine pine apple pleasant pleasure Providence Rawson reefs rocks roots Royal Victoria Hotel sailing Sampson sapodilla says sea turtles secured seemed seen shade sharks shell shore soft soon species sponges steamer stone strangers streets summer tree Triton tropical vessels Victoria Hotel vines visited warm West wild wind winter yacht yellow fever
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Page 267 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 69 - 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.
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Page 65 - A new Prometheus, chained upon the rock, Still grasping in his hand the fire of Jove, It does not hear the cry, nor heed the shock, But hails the mariner with words of love. "Sail on!
Page 207 - There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending, like corn on the upland lea.
Page 238 - And the poet, faithful and far-seeing, Sees, alike in stars and flowers, a part Of the self-same, universal being, Which is throbbing in his brain and heart.