Excursions and Adventures in New South Wales: With Pictures of Squatting and of Life in the Bush : an Account of the Climate, Productions, and Natural History of the Colony, and the Manners and Customs of the Natives, with Advice to Immigrants, Etc, Том 1W. Shoberl, 1851 - Всего страниц: 294 |
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... bark flies with the wind ; But still for land we ever sigh , And friends far left behind . For there's land upon , & c . III . Earth give us back thy fields , thy woods , Of thousand hues and shades , Thy lakes , thy hills and mountain ...
... bark flies with the wind ; But still for land we ever sigh , And friends far left behind . For there's land upon , & c . III . Earth give us back thy fields , thy woods , Of thousand hues and shades , Thy lakes , thy hills and mountain ...
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... bark and gum - trees , * all of them ( as is the case all over the country , even in the far in- terior ) exhibiting marks of burning , Into one still living and thriving but the heart of which had been burned out , I rode , and with ...
... bark and gum - trees , * all of them ( as is the case all over the country , even in the far in- terior ) exhibiting marks of burning , Into one still living and thriving but the heart of which had been burned out , I rode , and with ...
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... bark , and commence operations . They labour very hard , stripping to the waist in the hottest summer days ; but they live in ex- treme abundance , and , indeed , wastefulness , though their fare is but simple , consisting only of salt ...
... bark , and commence operations . They labour very hard , stripping to the waist in the hottest summer days ; but they live in ex- treme abundance , and , indeed , wastefulness , though their fare is but simple , consisting only of salt ...
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... bark , box , blood- wood , and iron - bark . We passed only one or two locations , or clearances , in the bush ; but we met several drays travelling down the country with wool , and overtook one or two on their return up , with stores ...
... bark , box , blood- wood , and iron - bark . We passed only one or two locations , or clearances , in the bush ; but we met several drays travelling down the country with wool , and overtook one or two on their return up , with stores ...
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... which , * The name of the temporary huts of the natives , formed of a sheet or two of bark , reclining against a stick or log , to my inexperienced eye , appeared insuper- able barriers to 172 EXCURSIONS AND ADVENTURES.
... which , * The name of the temporary huts of the natives , formed of a sheet or two of bark , reclining against a stick or log , to my inexperienced eye , appeared insuper- able barriers to 172 EXCURSIONS AND ADVENTURES.
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Стр. 295 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Стр. 4 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Стр. 145 - Under these circumstances, it is evident that the same law cannot be justly and equally administered to the two races, who are continually thrown into hostile contact on the frontiers of the colony. The gun is the only law the black fears: the only power that deters him from murder and plunder; and the only available administrator of punishment for his offences. Those who denounce the squatter as a murderer and land-robber, it has been well said in "Kennedy's Account of Texas," "take no thought of...
Стр. 56 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds. Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly * death itself awakes...
Стр. 303 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Стр. 46 - Still must I on.; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
Стр. 46 - The ship, half swallow'd in the black profound. With ceaseless hazard and fatigue opprest, Dismay and anguish every heart possest ; For while, with...
Стр. 43 - I could be well mov'd, if I were as you ; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me : But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true fix'd, and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.
Стр. 217 - Hover in the darkened air ; Like a torrent dashing loud, Bringing famine and despair. And often o'er the level waste The stifling hot winds fly ; Down falls the swain with trembling haste, The gasping cattle die.