Chronicles of Wolfert's roost and other papers. Author's ed, 77. kötet |
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30. oldal
... object of universal devotion throughout our land , seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages ; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there , and erect banking - houses and other pious shrines , there is no ...
... object of universal devotion throughout our land , seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages ; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there , and erect banking - houses and other pious shrines , there is no ...
36. oldal
... to his orthodoxy to declare that no irreverence was intended , even to the dollar itself - which , he is aware , is daily becoming more and more an object of wor- ship . judges , and generals , and governors ; not to 36 THE CREOLE VILLAGE .
... to his orthodoxy to declare that no irreverence was intended , even to the dollar itself - which , he is aware , is daily becoming more and more an object of wor- ship . judges , and generals , and governors ; not to 36 THE CREOLE VILLAGE .
39. oldal
... Under the influence of our story - books , every object around us now assumed a new character , and a charmed interest . The wild - flowers were no longer the mere ornaments of the fields , or the resorts of the toilful bee ; MOUNTJOY . 39.
... Under the influence of our story - books , every object around us now assumed a new character , and a charmed interest . The wild - flowers were no longer the mere ornaments of the fields , or the resorts of the toilful bee ; MOUNTJOY . 39.
47. oldal
... object . Unfortunately , our neighbourhood was particularly deficient in female society , and I languished in vain for some divinity , to whom I might offer up this most uneasy burden of affec- tions . I was at one time seriously ...
... object . Unfortunately , our neighbourhood was particularly deficient in female society , and I languished in vain for some divinity , to whom I might offer up this most uneasy burden of affec- tions . I was at one time seriously ...
57. oldal
... object and all , annihilated , dispelled , proved to be such stuff as dreams are made of or , worse than all , to be turned into a proverb and a jest — what consolation is there in such a case ? I avoided the fatal brook where I had ...
... object and all , annihilated , dispelled , proved to be such stuff as dreams are made of or , worse than all , to be turned into a proverb and a jest — what consolation is there in such a case ? I avoided the fatal brook where I had ...
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Abencerrage Adalantado alcayde ancient arms bank beautiful became Bermudas bosom caravel castle cavalier character commander Communipaw companion Count of Angoulême court cried daughter delighted Don Fernando Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans everything eyes fairy fancy father favourite forest fortune Foulquerre France French gave Glencoe hand head heard heart honour horse Indians inhabitants island Julia kind knew ladies land length lived livres looked Louis XIV louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning neighbourhood never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed Phantom Island Pluto Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river Roost round sachem seated seemed Serafina Seven Cities sister Sleepy Hollow Somerville soon soul spirit story THOMAS CONSTABLE thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose Wolfert Acker worthy Xarisa young youth
Népszerű szakaszok
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.