 | 1846 - Страниц: 670
...vol. ii, p. 98. " The hateful Mississippi — what words shall describe the great father of waters, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him ! An enormous ditch, running liquid mud six miles an hour !"— Dickens, p. 64. " If there be an excess of mental luxury... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1842 - Страниц: 646
...place without one single quality, inearth or air or water, to commend it : such is this dismal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi , great...obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees : now twining themselves together in great rafts, from the interstices of which a sedgy lazy foam works... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1842 - Страниц: 340
...place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it : such is this dismal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great...obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees : now twining themselves together in great rafts, from the interstices of which a sedgy lazy foam works... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - Страниц: 590
...Mississippi) $ill not thank Mr. Dickens for the following striking but repulsive portraiture: — • But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great...or three miles wide, running liquid mud, six miles au hour: its strong and frothy current choked and obstructed everywhere by liuge logs and whole forest... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1842 - Страниц: 452
...place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to cornmead it : such is this dismal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi , great...(praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him! AD enormous ditch , sometimes two or three miles wide , running liquid mud, six miles an hour: its... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 404
...pleasure ? We have an engraving which will just suit his true description of the Mississippi river. " Box what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father...ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid-mud six miles an hour ; its strong and frothy current choked and obstructed everywhere by huge... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - Страниц: 524
...thanking Heaven all the way, that he (the Mississippi,) " had no young children like himself" — " an enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud six miles an hour ;" having stopped at the Planter's House in St. Louis, " built like an English hospital, with long... | |
 | 1846 - Страниц: 668
...vol. ii, p. 98. " The hateful Mississippi — what words shall describe the great father of waters, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him ! An enormous ditch, running liquid mud six miles an hour !" — Dickens, p. 64. " If there be an excess of mental luxury... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1863 - Страниц: 202
...place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it : such is this dismal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great...sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud, six milea an hour : its strong and frothy current choked and obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1866 - Страниц: 472
...single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it : /such is this dismal Cairo. But what Y°r(ls shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers,...obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees : now twining themselves together in great rafts, from the interstices of which a sedgy lazy foam works... | |
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But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him ! An enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud, six miles an hour... 
