Tahoe: Or, Life in California. A Romance

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J. P. Harrison & Company, 1881 - 245 páginas
"A novel set in Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Yosemite, about a prosperous Southern family who have moved into Northern California and brought Southern charm, beautiful daughters, servants, racism, and numerous adventures with them"--Bookdealer's description.
 

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Página 125 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Página 37 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Página 90 - One I love, two I love, Three I love, I say, Four I love with all my heart, Five I cast away; Six he loves, seven she loves, Eight, both love, Nine he comes, ten he tarries, Eleven he courts, twelve he marries.
Página 127 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Página 145 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 208 - Before beginning, and without an end, As space eternal and as surety sure, Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good, Only its laws endure.
Página 158 - Murder? Ghost. Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
Página 86 - And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face...
Página 97 - Prometheus-like, from heaven she stole The fire, that through those silken lashes In darkest glances seems to roll, From eyes that cannot hide their flashes: And as along her bosom steal In lengthen'd flow her raven tresses, You'd swear each clustering lock could feel, And curl'd to give her neck caresses.
Página 42 - Nisus' injured hair! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill! Just then Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edged weapon from her shining case: So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight. He takes the gift with reverence, and extends The little engine on his fingers...

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