Knocking Around the RockiesHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 220 oldal |
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140. oldal - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
50. oldal - O man of wild habits, Partridges and rabbits, Who hast no cares Only to set snares, Who liv'st all alone, Close to the bone, And where life is sweetest Constantly eatest.
10. oldal - We make our dt'but," said this introductory paragraph, " in the Far West, where the snowy mountains look down upon us in the hottest summer day as well as in the winter's cold; here, where a few months ago the wild beasts and wilder Indians held undisturbed possession — where now surges the advancing wave of Anglo-Saxon enterprise and civilization — where soon, we proudly hope, will be erected a great and powerful State, another empire in the sisterhood of empires.