Chronicles of Wolfert's roost and other papers. Author's ed, 77. kötet |
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... visited . " - English Churchman . " A book of travel of a superior class , which is not only worth reading , but worth keep- ing for future reference . The able and enterprising firm who have issued this volume are keeping well their ...
... visited . " - English Churchman . " A book of travel of a superior class , which is not only worth reading , but worth keep- ing for future reference . The able and enterprising firm who have issued this volume are keeping well their ...
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... visits each tree , The red flowering peach , and the apple's sweet blossoms ; He snaps up destroyers , wherever they be , And seizes the caitiffs that lurk in their bosoms ; He drags the vile grub from the corn it devours , The worms ...
... visits each tree , The red flowering peach , and the apple's sweet blossoms ; He snaps up destroyers , wherever they be , And seizes the caitiffs that lurk in their bosoms ; He drags the vile grub from the corn it devours , The worms ...
48. oldal
... visiting the place this morning , I traced distinctly on the margin of the basin , which was of fine clear sand , the prints of a female foot of the most slender and delicate proportions . This was sufficient for an imagination like ...
... visiting the place this morning , I traced distinctly on the margin of the basin , which was of fine clear sand , the prints of a female foot of the most slender and delicate proportions . This was sufficient for an imagination like ...
56. oldal
... visited my eyes that night ! I lay overwhelmed with morti- fication , and meditating how I might meet the family in the morning . The idea of ridicule was always intolerable to me ; but to endure it on a subject by which my feelings had ...
... visited my eyes that night ! I lay overwhelmed with morti- fication , and meditating how I might meet the family in the morning . The idea of ridicule was always intolerable to me ; but to endure it on a subject by which my feelings had ...
95. oldal
... visited the island in quest of supplies for the Virginia colony , these culprits hovered about the landing - place , and succeeded in persuading another seaman , named Edward Chard , to join them , giving him the most seductive picture ...
... visited the island in quest of supplies for the Virginia colony , these culprits hovered about the landing - place , and succeeded in persuading another seaman , named Edward Chard , to join them , giving him the most seductive picture ...
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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
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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.