Chronicles of Wolfert's roost and other papers. Author's ed, 77. kötet |
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7. oldal
... trees of his apple orchard . CHRONICLE II . The next period at which we find this venerable and event- ful pile rising into importance , was during the dark and troublous time of the revolutionary war . It was the keep or stronghold of ...
... trees of his apple orchard . CHRONICLE II . The next period at which we find this venerable and event- ful pile rising into importance , was during the dark and troublous time of the revolutionary war . It was the keep or stronghold of ...
11. oldal
... trees , watching for hours together any ship or galley at anchor or becalmed - as a valorous mouser will watch a rat hole . So sure as a boat approached the shore , bang ! went the great goose - gun , sending on board a shower of slugs ...
... trees , watching for hours together any ship or galley at anchor or becalmed - as a valorous mouser will watch a rat hole . So sure as a boat approached the shore , bang ! went the great goose - gun , sending on board a shower of slugs ...
12. oldal
... point - blank shot . The tempta- tion was too great to be resisted . Bang ! went the great goose - gun , from the covert of the trees , shivering the cabin windows and driving all hands forward . Bang ! bang 12 WOLFERT'S ROOST .
... point - blank shot . The tempta- tion was too great to be resisted . Bang ! went the great goose - gun , from the covert of the trees , shivering the cabin windows and driving all hands forward . Bang ! bang 12 WOLFERT'S ROOST .
14. oldal
... trees , and crossed here and there by a wild wandering brook . The story went that one of the victims of Jacob Van Tassel's great goose - gun had been buried there in unconsecrated ground . Even the Tappan Sea in front was said to be ...
... trees , and crossed here and there by a wild wandering brook . The story went that one of the victims of Jacob Van Tassel's great goose - gun had been buried there in unconsecrated ground . Even the Tappan Sea in front was said to be ...
15. oldal
... trees , through which it looked forth , as with half - shut eyes , upon the Tappan Sea . The Indian spring - famous in the days of the wizard sachem still welled up at the bottom of the green bank ; and the wild brook , wild as ever ...
... trees , through which it looked forth , as with half - shut eyes , upon the Tappan Sea . The Indian spring - famous in the days of the wizard sachem still welled up at the bottom of the green bank ; and the wild brook , wild as ever ...
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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.