Sketches of Bermuda

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James Cochrane and Company, 11, Waterloo-Place, 1835 - Bermuda Islands - 258 pages
 

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Page 108 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
Page 239 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 240 - When first the Rhodian's mimic art array'd The Queen of Beauty in her Cyprian shade, The happy master mingled on his piece Each look that charm'd him in the fair of Greece. To faultless Nature true, he stole a grace From every finer form and sweeter face ; And as he sojourn'd on the ^Egean isles, Woo'd all their love, and treasured all their smiles...
Page 167 - In the year 1611 * Noble Sir George Summers went hence to heaven. Whose well-tried worth that held him still imploid Gave him the knowledge of the world so wide • Hence 'twas by Heaven's decree that to this place He brought new guests and name to mutual grace ; At last his soul and body being to part He here bequeathed his entrails and his heart.
Page 160 - Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori, di palme e d'amenissime mortelle, cedri et aranci ch'avean frutti e fiori contesti in varie forme e tutte belle, facean riparo ai fervidi calori de' giorni estivi con lor spesse ombrelle, e tra quei rami con sicuri voli cantando se ne giano i rosignuoli.
Page 58 - Such as might palaces for kings adorn. The sweet palmitoes a new Bacchus yield, With leaves as ample as the broadest shield : Under the shadow of whose friendly boughs They sit, carousing where their liquor grows.. .Figs there unplanted through the...
Page 111 - Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean: there leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
Page 19 - Tremolavano i rai del sol nascente Sovra l'onde del mar purpuree e d'oro ; E in veste di zaffiro il ciel ridente Specchiar parea le sue bellezze in loro. D'Africa i venti fieri e d'oriente Sovra il letto del mar prendean ristoro ; E co' sospiri suoi soavi e lieti Sol Zcffiro increspava il lembo a Teti.
Page 25 - ... Moran, extracted from Miss Lloyd's " Sketches of Bermuda," published by Cochrane, London. "I had the pleasure of being introduced to the family of Nea, celebrated in ' Moore's Odes.' Nea is no more (dated August 16th, 1819), but she still lives in song and in the fond recollection of her friends. From a likeness which I saw I should judge her to have been a fine woman ; but it is said that she was indebted for her fame less to her beauty than to the fascinating and easy gracefulness of her manner.
Page 13 - More deeply cloud the powers of night ; : \ When masts are bow'd, and sails are rent ; • ,! When skill and strength alike are spent ; '• \ When danger rears its giant form, — Thy gracious eye controls the storm. Our hope, our comfort, staff, and rod, Are but thy presence, glorious God ! In that confiding, safe we go, Nor dread the storm, nor fear the foe.

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