| Herman Melville - 1847 - 324 oldal
...reefs — tatooed chiefs — and bamboo temples ; sunny valleys | planted with bread-fruit-trees• — carved canoes dancing on the flashing blue waters...anticipations that haunted me during our passage from the cruising ground. I felt an irresistible curiosity to see those islands which the olden voyagers had... | |
| Herman Melville - 1847 - 350 oldal
...interest. It abounds with persolJ;d adventure, cannibal banquets, groves of cocoanut, coral reefs, tattooed chiefs and bamboo temples; sunny valleys, planted...horrible idols, heathenish rites, and human sacrifices. " Chateaubriand's Atala is of no softer or more romantic tone — Anacharsis scarce presents us with... | |
| Joseph Cottle - 1847 - 416 oldal
...It abounds with pereo; -.d adventure, cannibal banquets, groves of cocoanut, coral reel's, tattooed chiefs and bamboo temples ; sunny valleys, planted...horrible idols, heathenish rites, and human sacrifices. " Chateaubriand's Atala is of no softer or more romantic tone — Anacharsis scarce presents us with... | |
| Herman Melville - 1850 - 492 oldal
...spirit up ! Lovely houris — cannibal banquets — groves of cocoa-nuts — coral reefs — tattooed chiefs — and bamboo temples ; sunny valleys planted...anticipations that haunted me during our passage from the cruising ground. I felt an irresistible curiosity to see those islands which the olden voyagers had... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 oldal
...spirit up ! Lovely houris — cannibal banquets — groves of cocoanuts — coral reefs — tattooed chiefs, and bamboo temples ; sunny valleys planted...idols — heathenish rites and human sacrifices." And then the zest with which Tommo and Toby, having deserted the ship, plunge into the midst of these... | |
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 462 oldal
...coral reefs — tatooed chiefs — and bamboo temples; sunny valleys planted with bread-fruit-trees — carved canoes dancing on the flashing blue waters...anticipations that haunted me during our passage from the cruising ground. I felt an irresistible curiosity to see those islands which the olden voyagers had... | |
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 466 oldal
...coral reefs — tatooed chiefs — and bamboo temples; sunny valleys planted with bread-fruit-trees — carved canoes dancing on the flashing blue waters...anticipations that haunted me during our passage from the cruising ground. I felt an irresistible curiosity to see those islands which the olden voyagers had... | |
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 438 oldal
...reefs — tatooed chiefs — and bamboo temples; sunny valleys planted with bread-fruit-trees -— carved canoes dancing on the flashing blue waters—...anticipations that haunted me during our passage from the cruising ground. I felt an irresistible curiosity to see those islands which the olden voyagers had... | |
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 484 oldal
...coral reefs — tatooed chiefs — and bamboo temples; sunny valleys planted with bread-fruit>trees — carved canoes dancing on the flashing blue waters...anticipations that haunted me during our passage from the cruising ground. I felt an irresistible curiosity to see those islands which the olden voyagers had... | |
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