Martin Beck, Or, The Story of an Australian Settler

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G. Routledge, 1853 - 368 oldal
 

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332. oldal - All honor and praise to the right-hearted bard Who was true to The Voice when such service was hard, Who himself was so free he dared sing for the slave When to look but a protest in silence was brave...
334. oldal - The works of Miss M'Intosh have become popular in the best sense of the word. The simple beauty of her narratives, combining pure sentiment with high principle and noble views of life and duties, ought to win for them a hearing at every fireside in our land.
332. oldal - If I call him an iceberg, I don't mean to say There is nothing in that which is grand in its way; He is almost the one of your poets that knows How much grace, strength, and dignity lie in Repose...
334. oldal - ... principle and noble views of life and duties, ought to win for them a hearing at every fireside in our land. They place her beside the Edgeworths, and the Barbaulds, and the Opies, who have so long delighted and instructed us; and...
335. oldal - Print, in a portable foolscap 8vo form, suitable for the Traveller's Pocket, or for a Library. 2. Works that are worth reading and worth preserving. . - 3. A large amount of reading for a small price.
331. oldal - ... a Desert Island, a new edition, the Two Series complete in One Volume, entirely revised and corrected, with illustrations from designs by John Gilbert, Esq., foolscap 8vo.
167. oldal - They know their own know best, Charlie," said his countryman, as, after a short, careless gaze, he took his hand off his horse's crupper, and threw himself square again in his saddle. Nothing further passed between them for the instant. The Australians uniformly take pains to exhibit a contemptuous dislike of the British military. But suddenly Mr. Hurley reined up at their very heels; his horse and himself almost breathless. "Hollo! young fellow...
332. oldal - There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified, As a smooth, silent iceberg, that never is ignified, Save when by reflection 't is kindled o' nights With a semblance of flame by the chill Northern Lights.
iii. oldal - Beok will be found a most legitimate and important one: tLat of exhibiting to the new settler the various great errors which may be fallen into, and must be guarded against. For, in fact, I have merely concentrated in him singly, what the settler may easily enough meet with in a more dissipated form at the hands of several.
iii. oldal - ... the actual life of an Emigrant Family, and the scenery about their homestead in the Australian colonies, in the middle of the nineteenth century. Of course, all must not expect to meet with a Martin Beck for an overseer : but with the single exception of the introduction of a character necessary to furnish the tale with sufficient of plot to interest the lovers of romance, everything exhibited is a simple copy from actual daily life.

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