The Swiss family Robinson; or, Adventures of a shipwrecked family on a desolate island. New, unabridged tr. [by W.H.D. Adams]. With an intr. from the Fr. of C. Nodier |
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Pàgina 11
... followed the French translation by Madame Voïart , which is , perhaps , superior even to the original in style ; is more lucid , spirited , and expressive . This , I believe , is the first unabridged version offered to the English ...
... followed the French translation by Madame Voïart , which is , perhaps , superior even to the original in style ; is more lucid , spirited , and expressive . This , I believe , is the first unabridged version offered to the English ...
Pàgina 15
... followed . May its perusal prove agreeable to our young readers , while demonstrating this important truth , that whatever the severity of the misfortunes with which it is the will of God at times to chasten us , Providence never ...
... followed . May its perusal prove agreeable to our young readers , while demonstrating this important truth , that whatever the severity of the misfortunes with which it is the will of God at times to chasten us , Providence never ...
Pàgina 19
... followed by a dull , hoarse cracking , and by a sound of water pouring in with a violence which convinced me that the vessel's broadside had struck against a rock ; we were ashore ! A voice , which I recognized as our captain's ...
... followed by a dull , hoarse cracking , and by a sound of water pouring in with a violence which convinced me that the vessel's broadside had struck against a rock ; we were ashore ! A voice , which I recognized as our captain's ...
Pàgina 39
... followed the young madman , with whose threats and vociferations the rocks re - echoed ; I represented to him how ridiculous as well as hateful was such an outbreak of fury , and how surprised and grieved his mother felt to see her ...
... followed the young madman , with whose threats and vociferations the rocks re - echoed ; I represented to him how ridiculous as well as hateful was such an outbreak of fury , and how surprised and grieved his mother felt to see her ...
Pàgina 57
... followed , my example . But he sucked in vain . Nothing rewarded his exertions , because he had neglected to make , as I had done , a little aperture above the first joint . By diligently searching for the cause of this phenomenon , he ...
... followed , my example . But he sucked in vain . Nothing rewarded his exertions , because he had neglected to make , as I had done , a little aperture above the first joint . By diligently searching for the cause of this phenomenon , he ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 143 - They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Pàgina 337 - The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; The blaze upon the waters to the east ; The blaze upon his island overhead ; The blaze upon the waters to the west ; Then the great stars that globed themselves in Heaven, The hollower-bellowing ocean, and again The scarlet shafts of sunrise — but no sail.
Pàgina 608 - Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billowIn happy freedom, pleased to feel the air And wander in the luxury of light.
Pàgina 17 - And o'er upheaving surges wounded reels : Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock : Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke With strong convulsion rends the solid oak : Ah Heaven ! — behold her crashing ribs divide ! She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.
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Pàgina 84 - Beautiful is the land, with its prairies and forests of fruit-trees ; Under the feet a garden of flowers, and the bluest of heavens Bending above, and resting its dome on the walls of the forest. They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana.
Pàgina 137 - Well done, good and faithful servants, ye have been faithful over a few things, I will make you rulers over many things, enter ye into the joy of your Lord"?
Pàgina 608 - Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the air...
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