A Brief Account, Together with Observations, Made During a Visit in the West Indies, and a Tour Through the United States of America, in Parts of the Years 1832-3: Together with a Statistical Account of Upper CanadaG.H. Hackstaff, printer, 1836 - 272 頁 |
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abundance advantage Ancaster appearance banks Bay of Quinte beautiful Brantford bridge British Brockville buildings built Bytown called canal Carlisle Bay churches cleared Cobourg contains Creek Cultivated acres delightful distance District Dundas emigrants erected excellent extensive fall farms feet fertile forming Grand River ground Guelph Hamilton handsome harbour hills House of Assembly immediately improvement Indians inhabitants island Kingston labour Lake Erie Lake Huron lake Ontario Lake Simcoe land lofty lovely Lower Canada majestic ment miles mills Mohawk Montreal mountain navigation negroes Niagara pass persons population Port possessing present prosperity Province quantity Quebec rail road render rich Rideau Rideau Canal rock route Sandwich saw-mills scene settled settlement settlers ship shore side Simcoe situated sleighing soil spacious splendid steam-boat stone stream surrounded taverns timber tion Toronto town township trees Trent Upper Canada Vaucluse vicinity village Welland Canal West winter wood
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第 31 頁 - How beautiful this night! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love had spread To curtain her sleeping world.
第 103 頁 - Such is the strength with which population shoots in that part of the world, that state the numbers as high as we will, whilst the dispute continues, the exaggeration ends.
第 11 頁 - Come, bright improvement! on the car of time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
第 111 頁 - And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks. Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back, The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law; The world affords no law to make thee rich; Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
第 31 頁 - Robed in a garment of untrodden snow ; Yon darksome rocks, whence icicles depend, So stainless, that their white and glittering spires Tinge not the moon's pure beam ; yon castled steep, Whose banner hangeth o'er the time-worn tower So idly, that rapt fancy deemeth it A metaphor of peace ; — all form a scene Where musing solitude might love to lift Her soul above this sphere of earthliness ; Where silence undisturbed might watch alone, So cold, so bright, so still.
第 63 頁 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.