Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in IcelandC.B. Norton, 1854 - 334 páginas |
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Ægir Æsir Althing America appearance basin beautiful bird boiling called Cattegat cave CHAPTER chasm church clergyman coast color Copenhagen covered crater Danish Denmark distance earth Elsinore English eruption farm farmer Faroe Faroe Isles feet deep feet high fire fish Geyser grass green Greenland ground half heaven Hekla hills horses hot springs Hvitá Iceland Jokull Jötunheim Jötuns journey lake land lava Laxá Loki look meadow Midgard serpent miles milk Mount Hekla mountain native nearly never Niflheim northern ocean Odin petrifactions plain pony pretty Reykjavik ride river rock saddles sailed seemed seen ship side singular Skaptar Jokull sleep smoke Snæfell snow stream Strokr sulphur surface Surtur syssel thing Thingvalla Thor thousand thrown tion took travelers turf valley vessels við volcanic voyages Westmann Islands winter yards
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Página 191 - Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, But with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.
Página 245 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 300 - The land is no longer in view, The clouds have begun to frown; But with a stout vessel and crew, We'll say, Let the storm come down!
Página 192 - Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.
Página 66 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Página 130 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Página 21 - There's not one atom of yon earth But once was living man ; Nor the minutest drop of rain, That hangeth in its thinnest cloud, But flowed in human veins...
Página 154 - He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat ; With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought...
Página 272 - Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos.
Página 263 - To the guest who enters your dwelling with frozen knees, give the warmth of your fire ; he who hath travelled over the mountains, hath need of food and well-dried garments.