Beadle's American library, كتاب 3

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الصفحة 116 - WHEN a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west, And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime Of a century bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time.
الصفحة 5 - twixt heaven and me, Henceforward, be a bright and yearning chain Drawing me after thee ! And so, farewell ! Tis a harsh world, in which affection knows No place to treasure up its loved and lost But the...
الصفحة 23 - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
الصفحة 30 - For, borne from bells on music soft, That solemn hour went forth from heaven, To stir the starry airs aloft, And thrill the purple pulse of even. Oh, happy hush of heart to heart! Oh, moment molten through with bliss ! Oh Love, delaying long to part The first, fast, individual kiss ! — OWEN MEREDITH.
الصفحة 12 - ... thoughts, and high, warm feelings, blended with doubts and cares, and the engrossing impulses of interest conflicting with the wilder passions of a hot and impetuous nature. Nor did he leave behind him, in the breast of the young Guarica, sentiments less novel, or feelings less tumultuous ; truly, to them, that day was the hinge whereon the doors revolved of future happiness or misery ; for, from that day, each dated a new life, fraught with new wishes, and regulated by new destinies — and...
الصفحة 5 - ... forest, outstretched in a light grass hammock, which was suspended at the height of two or three feet from the ground, between two stately palm-trees, and swaying gently to and fro in the light currents of the morning breeze, there lay the loveliest girl that eyes ever looked upon. Her rich, black hair, braided above her brow, and fastened with one string of pearls, was passed behind her ears, whence it fell in a profusion of glossy curls, so wondrously luxuriant, that, had she stood erect, it...
الصفحة 48 - ... shaft that night, Hernando rode directly to the spot where he had sat with Guarica when the fell missile was discharged — he saw the grass betraying, by its bruised and prostrate blades, the very spot on which they had been sitting — but all was still and lonely. Onward he went across the very ground which he had searched so carefully, scarce half an hour before, and ere he had traversed fifty paces, both bloodhounds challenged fiercely. Calling them instantly to heel, the cavalier alighted,...
الصفحة 1 - ... tall palms, towering a hundred feet above their humbler, yet still lofty brethren— the giant oaks, their whole trunks overgrown with thousands of bright parasites, and their vast branches canopied with vines and creepers — masses of tangled and impervious foliage — the natural lawns, watered by rills of...
الصفحة 5 - Indian youth, tall anil slightly framed, and not above sixteen or seventeen years of age, at the utmost, polishing, with a shell chisel, the shaft of a long javelin ; on the lawn, in front of the cottage, a bright fire was blazing, and several native females were collected round it, preparing their morning meal, with cakes of the cassava baking among the hot wood embers, and fish broiling on small spits of aromatic wood. But at a little distance to the left of these, at the extreme end of the building,...
الصفحة 48 - Andalusian— whistled his faithful bloodhounds to his heel, and dashed away, at a furious gallop, toward the fortress of his unfriendly countrymen. Eager still to discover, if so it might be, something of him who had so ruthlessly aimed the murderer's shaft that night, Hernando rode directly to the spot where he had sat with Guarica when the...

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