The Viking Bodleys: An Excursion Into Norway and Denmark

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 - 190 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 15 - I have been in the deep : in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren : in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Sayfa 92 - Last the Musician, as he stood Illumined by that fire of wood; Fair-haired, blue-eyed, his aspect blithe, His figure tall and straight and lithe, And every feature of his face Revealing his Norwegian race ; A radiance, streaming from within, Around his eyes and forehead beamed, The Angel with the violin, Painted by Raphael, he seemed.
Sayfa 74 - But Othere, the old sea-captain, He neither paused nor stirred Till the king listened, and then Once more took up his pen And wrote down every word. ' "And to the King of the Saxons In witness of the truth, Raising his noble head, He stretched his brown hand and said, 'Behold this walrus tooth.' " By Jove, what chaps those must have been, to go sailing all over the shop never knowing where they'd fetch the land! Hah!
Sayfa 176 - MY life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. If, when I was a boy, and went forth into the world poor and friendless, a good fairy had met me and said, " Choose now thy own course through life, and the object for which thou wilt strive, and then, according to the development of thy mind, and as reason requires, I will guide and defend thee to its attainment," my fate could not, even then, have been directed more happily, more prudently, or better.
Sayfa 73 - To the west of me was the ocean, To the right the desolate shore, But I did not slacken sail For the walrus or the whale, Till after three days more. "The days grew longer and longer, Till they became as one, And northward through the haze I saw the sullen blaze Of the red midnight sun.
Sayfa 146 - KING CHRISTIAN stood by the lofty mast In mist and smoke ; His sword was hammering so fast; Through Gothic helm and brain it passed ; Then sank each hostile hulk and mast, In mist and smoke.
Sayfa 72 - Of him who was first to sail Into the Arctic seas. "So far I live to the northward, No man lives north of me : To the east are wild mountain-chains, And beyond them meres and plains; To the westward all is sea. "So far I live to the northward, From the...
Sayfa 164 - ... him, and he never got far from the use of a few simple forms. There was one curious invention as applied to Christian art, and that was in a whimsical illustration of the story of Adam and Eve. They are represented seated together, while Adam holds Abel on his knee. An altar fire burns near. Abel has an apple in his uplifted hand, and Cain, who is on the ground, spurns another apple with his foot, at the same time snatching at Abel's. The serpent looks upon this family group, which appears to...

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