Author: David Gray
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332131573
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Excerpt from Letters, Poems and Selected Prose Writings of David Gray The China is a magnificent vessel and the Atlantic has treated her, this time, right chivalrously. As if they owned her regal attitude among them, the elements have not thrown her a challenge, but smooth her path and fill her sails in loyal facilitation of her eastward progress. We have scarcely felt the step yet in which the Ocean moves in his moods of lively frolic. Still less has he donned for us the white cap of his wrath. In a word, utterly discouraging to the demon of sea sickness, and terrible in its effects upon the China's commissariat, has been this most auspicious voyage, thus far. The fog which curtained the sea all along as we sailed, till abreast of Cape Race, and which we found in ragged little ribbands lying across the great bank of Newfoundland, alone has given us a glimpse of the possible dangers of the deep. There were times when, for hours, between the dark and the day light, the Ohina bounded fiercely across the narrow circle of watery moonlight into which, by dense and high and all-surrounding walls of white mist, she was inexorably shut. On watch, then, were eyes the skill fullest and most unwearying, strained to catch the first glitter of terrible silver emerging from the fog, sole signal which the deadly iceberg is wont to carry at its prow of crystal. But neither the peril nor the pleasure of passing a hyperborean fleet was ours. We saw no ice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358671227
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Author: David Gray
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330425169
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Excerpt from Letters, Poems and Selected Prose Writings of David Gray It is a selfish sentiment, dear Courier, which inspires me to begin these most rambling and accidental notes of the European pilgrimage now fairly inaugurated, as you wot. by two wandering sons of Buffalo. Glittering Old World visions draw our eyes to look eastward; but the heart rides in a sort of figurative rowboat when it travels from home, - even while it speeds at the fastest away it sits steadily facing the place whence it came, and dreads above all things to be forgotten there. It is that dread, dear Courier, which makes me write, braving the terror of being tiresome, and the horror of reproducing, for the millionth time, the unspeakable staleness known to newspaper readers under the title of 'Letters from Europe.' Wrapped, as often as may be, in your Saturday sheet, I would make ghostly visits to Buffalo, and defy yon, by the solemnity of the apparitions, to forget us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: David GRAY (of Edinburgh, Poet and Journalist.)
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Author: Robert Williams Buchanan
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ISBN: 9781330857311
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Excerpt from David Gray, and Other Essays, Chiefly on Poetry It is from no desire to appear in a new character that I publish the present volume. The following Essays, indeed, are prose additions and notes to my publications in verse, rather than mere attempts at general criticism, for which, indeed, I have little aptitude. They are my Confession of Faith. I have here briefly touched on several great and magnificent questions immediately affecting the poetic personality: - on the nature and character of the Poet par excellence, on the Student's Vocation, on what is and what is not moral in the Student's Utterance, slightly on religious light and truth; illustrating my matter by such sketches as that of Whitman, and such notes as that on Herrick' Hesperides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Robert Williams Buchanan
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780469758285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: Thomas Gray
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483424173
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Excerpt from Gray's Letters and Poems: With a Life of the Author But the favourite study of Gray, for the last two years of his life, was natural history, which he ra ther resumed than began, as he had acquired some knowledge of botany in early life, while he was un der the tuition of his uncle Antrobus. He wrote co pious rflhrginal notes to the works of Linnaeus, and other writers in the three kingdoms of nature and Mr. Mason further observes, that, excepting pure mathematics, and the studies dependent on that sci ence, there was hardly any part of human learning in which he had not acquired a competent skill in most of them a'consummate mastery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Robert Williams Buchanan
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ISBN: 9781330457023
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Excerpt from The Story of David Gray When David Gray's little book of verses came out in the Spring of 1862 he had been dead only a few months. On this side the Atlantic the drums and tramplings of Civil War silenced for awhile these faint and far off strains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
