Chronicles of Wolfert's roost and other papers. Author's ed, 77. kötet |
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3. oldal
... brought him into collision with the powerful sachem of Sing - Sing . Many were the sharp con- flicts between these rival chieftains for the sovereignty of a winding valley , a favourite hunting ground , watered by a beautiful stream ...
... brought him into collision with the powerful sachem of Sing - Sing . Many were the sharp con- flicts between these rival chieftains for the sovereignty of a winding valley , a favourite hunting ground , watered by a beautiful stream ...
6. oldal
... brought with him a wife ; and it soon passed into a proverb throughout the neigh- bourhood , that the cock of the Roost was the most henpecked bird in the country . His house , too , was reputed to be har- assed by Yankee witchcraft ...
... brought with him a wife ; and it soon passed into a proverb throughout the neigh- bourhood , that the cock of the Roost was the most henpecked bird in the country . His house , too , was reputed to be har- assed by Yankee witchcraft ...
12. oldal
... brought vengeance on his house . It so happened that in the course of one of his solitary prowls he descried a British transport aground ; the stern swung toward shore within point - blank shot . The tempta- tion was too great to be ...
... brought vengeance on his house . It so happened that in the course of one of his solitary prowls he descried a British transport aground ; the stern swung toward shore within point - blank shot . The tempta- tion was too great to be ...
13. oldal
... brought other of Jacob's fellow bush - fighters to the spot . Before the transport could bring a gun to bear , or land a boat to take revenge , she was soundly peppered , and the coast evacuated . This was the last of Jacob's triumphs ...
... brought other of Jacob's fellow bush - fighters to the spot . Before the transport could bring a gun to bear , or land a boat to take revenge , she was soundly peppered , and the coast evacuated . This was the last of Jacob's triumphs ...
27. oldal
... brought this mistaken little bird to an untimely end . Which is all at present , from the well - wisher of little boys and little birds , GEOFFREY CRAYON . THE CREOLE VILLAGE . A SKETCH FROM A STEAMBOAT . THE BIRDS OF SPRING . 27.
... brought this mistaken little bird to an untimely end . Which is all at present , from the well - wisher of little boys and little birds , GEOFFREY CRAYON . THE CREOLE VILLAGE . A SKETCH FROM A STEAMBOAT . THE BIRDS OF SPRING . 27.
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308. oldal - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
41. 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.
21. 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...
94. 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.
26. oldal - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
94. oldal - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
22. oldal - Pennsylvania epicures ; the rival in unlucky fame of the ortolan ! Wherever he goes, pop ! pop ! pop ! every rusty firelock in the country is blazing away. He sees his companions falling by thousands around him. " Does he take warning, and reform ? Alas, not he ! Incorrigible epicure ! again he wings his flight.
83. oldal - 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.
28. oldal - ... of the poorest, I was assured he was one of the merriest and most popular personages in his native village. Compere Martin, as he was commonly called, was the factotum of the place, — sportsman, schoolmaster, and land-surveyor. He could sing, dance, and, above all, play on the fiddle, an invaluable accomplishment in an old French Creole village, for the inhabitants have a hereditary love for balls and fetes. If they work but little, they dance a great deal ; and a fiddle is the joy of their...
20. oldal - Nature 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.