WorksPutnam, 1864 |
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9. oldal
... ancient and renowned city of Manhattan , formerly called New - Amsterdam , and vulgarly called New - York , on the eastern bank of that expansion of the Hudson , known among Dutch mariners of yore , as the Tappan Zee , being in fact the ...
... ancient and renowned city of Manhattan , formerly called New - Amsterdam , and vulgarly called New - York , on the eastern bank of that expansion of the Hudson , known among Dutch mariners of yore , as the Tappan Zee , being in fact the ...
13. oldal
... ancient Dutch records term it , Vest Dorp , in the right of one Thomas Pell , who pretended to have purchased the whole surrounding country of the Indians ; and stood ready to argue their claims before any tribunal of Christendom . This ...
... ancient Dutch records term it , Vest Dorp , in the right of one Thomas Pell , who pretended to have purchased the whole surrounding country of the Indians ; and stood ready to argue their claims before any tribunal of Christendom . This ...
16. oldal
... ancient Dorp of Yonkers . The Pocantico , rising among woody hills , winds in many a wizard maze , through the sequestered haunts of Sleepy Hollow . We owe it to the indefatigable researches of Mr. KNICKERBOCKER , that those beauti ...
... ancient Dorp of Yonkers . The Pocantico , rising among woody hills , winds in many a wizard maze , through the sequestered haunts of Sleepy Hollow . We owe it to the indefatigable researches of Mr. KNICKERBOCKER , that those beauti ...
23. oldal
... ancient tradi- tionists of the neighborhood knew better . Some said it was one of the whale - boats of the old water - guard , sunk by the British ships during the war , but now permitted to haunt its old cruising grounds ; but the ...
... ancient tradi- tionists of the neighborhood knew better . Some said it was one of the whale - boats of the old water - guard , sunk by the British ships during the war , but now permitted to haunt its old cruising grounds ; but the ...
38. oldal
... ancient and almost obliterated customs and usages of his coun try , would do well to put himself upon the track of some early band of emigrants , follow them across the Atlantic , and rummage among their descendants on our shores . In ...
... ancient and almost obliterated customs and usages of his coun try , would do well to put himself upon the track of some early band of emigrants , follow them across the Atlantic , and rummage among their descendants on our shores . In ...
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Abencerrage Adalantado Alcayde ancient arms bank beautiful became beheld Bermudas bosom caravel castle cavalier commander Communipaw companions Count Count of Angouleme court cried daughter delighted Don Fernando Don Luis Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans eyes fairy fancy father forest fortune Foulquerre France French gave Glencoe grand hand heard heart honor horse Indians inhabitants island Julia Julia Somerville kind king knew ladies land length livres looked louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed phantom island Pluto Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river Roost round royal sachem seated seemed Seneschal Serafina Seven Cities shore sister Sleepy Hollow Somerville soon spirit story thing thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose Wolfert Acker worthy Xarisa young youth
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57. oldal - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
102. oldal - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
114. oldal - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
334. oldal - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice, Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
342. oldal - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
36. oldal - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
34. oldal - But in this genial interval, natu/e is in all her freshness and fragrance " the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
342. oldal - Break, Phantsie, from thy cave of cloud, And wave thy purple wings, Now all thy figures are allowed, And various shapes of things. Create of airy forms a stream ; It must have blood and...
107. oldal - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
41. oldal - town lots'," "water privileges," "railroads," and other comprehensive and soul-stirring words from the speculator's vocabulary, are never heard. The residents dwell in the houses built by their forefathers, without thinking of enlarging or modernizing them, or pulling them down and turning them into granite stores. The trees under which they have been born, and have played in infancy, flourish undisturbed ; though, by cutting them down, they might open new streets, and put money in their pockets....