Cassell's Picturesque Australasia, Volume 4Edward Ellis Morris Cassell, Limited, 1880 - Australasia |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adelaide Auckland Australia banks beautiful bush bushrangers called Cape Captain chief Church coach coast colony colour copper Creek Diemen's Land district England English feet fern fire forest glacier gold Government Governor green Grey gullies gum-trees harbour Heke hills Hinemoa Hobart horses hundred island journey Kororareka labour lake Lake Wanaka Launceston lies Maoris Maryborough Maui-potiki Melbourne miles mines Moonta Mount Bischoff Mount Cook mountain natives neighbourhood Ngapuhi North Island north-west Ohou party passed Peninsula picturesque plain population Port prisoners Pukaki railway range Rauparaha reached rich rises River road rocks round runs scenery schools seen settlement settlers shore side slopes South Australia South Wales southern stands station steamers stream Sydney Tasmania Te Kooti town township traveller trees Tutanekai valley Van Diemen's Land Victoria Waikato Waitara Wallaroo Wanaka Wanganui winds Zealand
Popular passages
Page 62 - That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind: Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote...
Page 125 - There slumber England's dead. The warlike of the isles, The men of field and wave ! Are not the rocks their funeral piles, The seas and shores their grave ? Go, stranger ! track the deep, Free, free the white sail spread ! Wave may not foam, nor wild wind sweep, Where rest not England's dead.
Page 225 - ... crashing abyss below, the blue of the water, paled by the foam in its body, shows purer than the sky through white rain-cloud; while the shuddering iris stoops in tremulous stillness over all, fading and flushing alternately through the choking spray and shattered sunshine, hiding itself at last among the thick golden leaves which toss to and fro in sympathy with the wild water; their dripping masses lifted at intervals, like sheaves of loaded corn, by some stronger gush from the cataract, and...
Page 120 - Again and again during the last twenty-six years, where there has been danger and difficulty in the administration of colonial affairs, your Excellency's aid has been invoked by the most eminent statesmen of the day. Sacrifices you have disregarded, and trials have served as opportunities of evincing devotion to public duty, and we cannot but regard it as indicative of the indifference, if not positive disfavour, with which the colonies of the empire are regarded when loyalty, zeal, and high intelligence...
Page 225 - ... leaps hissing out of the fall, like a rocket, bursting in the wind and driven away in dust, filling the air with light; and how through the curdling wreaths of the restless crashing abyss below, the blue of the water, paled by the foam in its body, shows purer than the sky through white rain-cloud, while the shuddering iris stoops in tremulous stillness over all, fading and flushing alternately through the choking spray and shattered sunshine...
Page 114 - I at that moment believed was ebbing with my blood away ; the loveliness of nature was around me, the sun rejoicing in his cloudless career, the birds were filling the woods with their songs, and my friends far away and unapprehensive of my condition, — whilst I felt that I was dying there.
Page 114 - The effect was electrical. The tumult of the combat had ceased: not another spear was thrown, not another yell was uttered. Native after native dropped away, and noiselessly disappeared.
Page 63 - They were supported by the confidence of the nation. And having held their offices under many difficulties and discouragements, they left them at the express command, as they had accepted them at the earnest request, of their royal master.
Page 247 - Listen, all men! The house of New Zealand is one. The rafters on one side are the ' pakehas;' those on the other are the Maoris; the ridge-pole on which both rest is God. Let, therefore, the house be one.
Page 91 - ... himself at the entrance of a large oblong square chamber, low, but perfectly lighted by an aperture at the opposite end, and all around, above and below, the eye is bewildered by a prof'usion of ornaments and decoration of Nature's own devising. It is like an immense Gothic cathedral, and the numbers of half-finished stalagmites, which rise from the ground like kneeling or prostrate forms, seem worshippers in that silent and solemn place. The walls are pretty...