WorksPutnam, 1864 |
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10. oldal
... side , and had his seat of government at its mouth . The chieftain who ruled at the Roost , was not merely a great warrior , but a medi . cine - man , or prophet , or conjurer , for they all mean the same thing in Indian parlance . Of ...
... side , and had his seat of government at its mouth . The chieftain who ruled at the Roost , was not merely a great warrior , but a medi . cine - man , or prophet , or conjurer , for they all mean the same thing in Indian parlance . Of ...
12. oldal
... sides in reply ; being it is said , the spell - bound warriors , who half start from their rocky couches and grasp their weapons , but sink to sleep again . The conquest of the Pocantico was the last triumph of the wizard sachem ...
... sides in reply ; being it is said , the spell - bound warriors , who half start from their rocky couches and grasp their weapons , but sink to sleep again . The conquest of the Pocantico was the last triumph of the wizard sachem ...
16. oldal
... side ; but these rude hills are for the most part richly wooded , and inclose little fresh pastoral valleys watered by the Neperan , the Pocantico , * and other beautiful streams , along which . the Indians built their wigwams in the ...
... side ; but these rude hills are for the most part richly wooded , and inclose little fresh pastoral valleys watered by the Neperan , the Pocantico , * and other beautiful streams , along which . the Indians built their wigwams in the ...
17. oldal
... side , and all pretending to redress wrongs and punish political offences ; but all prone in the exercise of their high functions , to sack hen - roosts , drive off cattle , and lay farm - houses under contribution : such was the origin ...
... side , and all pretending to redress wrongs and punish political offences ; but all prone in the exercise of their high functions , to sack hen - roosts , drive off cattle , and lay farm - houses under contribution : such was the origin ...
26. oldal
... side by side , in long platoons , in this last gathering place of kindred . With pious hand would Diedrich Knickerbocker turn down the weeds and brambles which had overgrown the tombstones , to decipher inscriptions in Dutch and English ...
... side by side , in long platoons , in this last gathering place of kindred . With pious hand would Diedrich Knickerbocker turn down the weeds and brambles which had overgrown the tombstones , to decipher inscriptions in Dutch and English ...
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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....