A Tale of ParaguayS. G. Goodrich, 1827 - 209 pàgines |
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Pàgina 103 - While we were at the waterfall, some half-score peasants, chiefly women and girls, assembled just out of reach of the spray, and set up — surely the wildest chorus that ever was heard by human ears — a song, not of articulate sounds, but in •which the voice was used as a mere instrument of music, more flexible than any which art could produce, — sweet, powerful, and thrilling beyond description.
Pàgina 27 - By nature peccable and frail are we, Easily beguiled ; to vice, to error prone ; But apt for virtue too. Humanity Is not a field where tares and thorns alone Are left to spring ; good seed hath there been sown With no unsparing hand. Sometimes the shoot Is choked with weeds, or withers on a stone ; But in a kindly soil it strikes its root, And flourisheth, and bringeth forth abundant fruit.
Pàgina 7 - ... bore Of life and hope. The appointed weeks go by ; And now her hour is come, and none is nigh To help : but human help she needed none. A few short throes endured with scarce a cry, Upon the bank she laid her new-born son, Then slid into the stream, and bathed, and all was done.
Pàgina 52 - Anon advancing thus the trees between, He saw beside her bower the songstress wild, Not distant far, himself the while unseen. Mooma it was, that happy maiden mild, . Who in the sunshine, like a careless child Of nature, in her joy was caroling.
Pàgina 56 - Reposed alike their conscience and their cares ; And he, with equal faith, the trust of both Accepted and discharged. The bliss is theirs Of that entire dependence that prepares Entire submission, let what may befall; And his whole careful course of life declares That for their good he holds them thus in thrall, Their Father and their Friend, Priest, Ruler, all in all.
Pàgina 101 - O earth ! to thee we commend our brother; of thee he was formed; by thee he was sustained; and unto thee he now returns ! "O fire! thou hadst a claim in our brother; during his life he subsisted by thy influence in nature; to thee we commit his body: thou emblem of purity, may his spirit be purified on entering a new state of existence ! " O air! while the breath of life continued, our brother respired by thee: his last breath is now departed; to thee we yield him !
Pàgina 43 - He was a man of rarest qualities, Who to this barbarous region had confined A spirit with the learned and the wise Worthy to take its place, and from mankind Receive their homage, to the immortal mind Paid in its just inheritance of fame. But he to humbler thoughts his heart inclined ; From Gratz amid the Styrian hills he came, And Dobrizhoffer was the good man's honour'd name.
Pàgina 59 - Behold the fraudful arts, the covert strife, The jarring interests that engross mankind ; The low pursuits, the selfish aims of life ; Studies that weary and contract the mind, That bring no joy, and leave no peace behind ; And Death approaching to dissolve the spell ! The immortal soul, which hath so long been blind, Recovers then clear sight, and sees too well The error of its ways, when irretrievable. 14. Far happier the Guaranies' humble race, With whom in dutiful contentment wise, The gentle...
Pàgina 84 - is dissected in the surgeon's hall, gratis ; and the rich sinner is embowelled in his own apartment at great expense. The robber, exposed to open air, wastes away in hoops of iron ; and the gentleman, confined to a damp vault, moulders away in sheets of lead ; and while the fowls of the air greedily prey upon the one, the vermin of the earth eagerly devour the other.
Pàgina 55 - ... thoughtful spirit, well I ween, Something to move its wonder there might find, Something of consolation for its kind, Some hope and earnest of a happier age, When vain pursuits no more the heart shall blind, But Faith the evils of this earth assuage, And to all souls assure their heavenly heritage.