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Chapter Eighteen.
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The Ocean and the New World.
Doctors tell us that change of air is usually beneficial, often necessary, nearly always agreeable. Relying on the wisdom of this opinion, we propose now to give the reader who has followed us thus far a change of air—by shifting the scene to the bosom1 of the broad Atlantic—and thus blow away the cobwebs and dust of the city.
Those who have not yet been out upon the great ocean cannot conceive—and those who have been out on it may not have seen—the splendours of a luminous2 fog on a glorious summer morning. The prevailing3 ideas in such circumstances are peace and liquidity4! the only solid object visible above, below, or around, being the ship on which you stand.
Everything else is impalpable, floating, soft, and of a light, bright, silvery grey. The air is warm, the sea is glass; it is circular, too, like a disc, and the line where it meets with the sky is imperceptible. Your little bark is the centre of a great crystal ball, the limit of which is Immensity!
As we have said, peace, liquidity, luminosity, softness, and warmth prevail everywhere, and the fog, or rather, the silvery haze5—for it is dry and warm as well as bright—has the peculiar6 effect of deadening sound, so that the quiet little noises of ship-board rather help than destroy the idea of that profound tranquillity7 which suggests irresistibly8 to the religious mind the higher and sweeter idea of “the peace of God.”
But, although intensely still, there is no suggestion of death in such a scene. It is only that of slumber9! for the ocean undulates even when at rest, and sails flap gently even when there is no wind. Besides this, on the particular morning to which we call attention, a species of what we may call “still life” was presented by a
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emigrant
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emigrants
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n.祈神赐福;祷告;祝福,祝愿 | |
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romping
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adj.嬉戏喧闹的,乱蹦乱闹的v.嬉笑玩闹( romp的现在分词 );(尤指在赛跑或竞选等中)轻易获胜 | |
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prospect
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vi.使分散;使消失;vt.分散;驱散 | |
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adj. 被驱散的, 被分散的, 散布的 | |
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v.切断,断绝( sever的过去式和过去分词 );断,裂 | |
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gulf
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n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂 | |
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beset
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v.镶嵌;困扰,包围 | |
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groaning
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节制者,戒酒者,弃权者 | |
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