Cassell's Picturesque Australasia, Volume 1Edward Ellis Morris |
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Page 4 - I see the deep's untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown: I sit upon the sands alone — The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet!
Page 74 - Lord Nelson said to Captain Blackwood : " See how that noble fellow, Collingwood, takes his ship into action ! How I envy him ! '* The very same throb and impulse of heroic generosity was beating in Collingwood's honest bosom.
Page 87 - I believe him to be conscientiously alive to the good or evil that he is doing, and that his caution has more than once arrested the gigantic projects of the Lycurgus of the Lower House. I am sorry to hurt any man's feelings, and to brush away the magnificent fabric of levity and gaiety he has reared ; but I accuse our Minister of honesty and diligence ; I deny that he is careless or rash : he is nothing more than a man of good understanding, and good principle, disguised in the eternal and somewhat...
Page 87 - But if the truth must be told, our Viscount is somewhat of an impostor. Everything about him seems to betoken careless desolation : any one would suppose from his manner that he was playing at chuck-farthing with human happiness ; that he was always on the heel of pastime ; that he would giggle away the Great Charter, and decide by the method of tee-totum whether my Lords the Bishops should or should not retain their seats in the House of Lords. All this is...
Page 74 - ... my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to guess at the very uncertain position the enemy may be found in: but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment for carrying them into effect. We can, my dear Coll, have no little jealousies. We have only one great object in view, that of annihilating our enemies, and getting a glorious peace for our country. No man has more confidence in another than I have in you; and no man will render...
Page 4 - The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Page 32 - They were already upon two-thirds of tho men's allowance, and many of them either had children who could very well have eaten their own and part of the mother's ration, or they had children at the breast, and although they did not labour, yet their appetites were never so delicate as to have found the full ration too much had it been...
Page 30 - The different coves were examined with all possible expedition. I fixed on the one that had the best spring of water, and in which the ships can anchor so close to the shore that at a very small expense quays may be made at which the largest ships may unload.
Page 2 - I DESPAIR of being able to convey to any reader my own idea of the beauty of Sydney Harbour. I have seen nothing equal to it in the way of land-locked sea scenery,—nothing second to it.