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... whole country . It claims to be an ancient seat of empire , I may rather say an empire in itself , and like all empires , great and small , has had its grand historical epochs . In speaking of this doughty and valorous little pile , I ...
... whole country . It claims to be an ancient seat of empire , I may rather say an empire in itself , and like all empires , great and small , has had its grand historical epochs . In speaking of this doughty and valorous little pile , I ...
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... whole surrounding country of the Indians ; and stood ready to argue their claims before any tribunal of Christendom . This happened during the chivalrous reign of Peter Stuyve- sant , and roused the ire of that gunpowder old hero ...
... whole surrounding country of the Indians ; and stood ready to argue their claims before any tribunal of Christendom . This happened during the chivalrous reign of Peter Stuyve- sant , and roused the ire of that gunpowder old hero ...
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... whole cavalgada would urge its headlong course across the bridge with thundering tramp and dusty whirl- wind . At such times their pursuers would rein up their steeds , survey that perilous pass with wary eye and , wheeling about , in ...
... whole cavalgada would urge its headlong course across the bridge with thundering tramp and dusty whirl- wind . At such times their pursuers would rein up their steeds , survey that perilous pass with wary eye and , wheeling about , in ...
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... whole length of the Tappan Sea , to attend a quilting frolic at Kakiat , on the western . shore . Here he had danced , and drunk , until midnight , when he entered his boat to return home . He was warned that he was on the verge of ...
... whole length of the Tappan Sea , to attend a quilting frolic at Kakiat , on the western . shore . Here he had danced , and drunk , until midnight , when he entered his boat to return home . He was warned that he was on the verge of ...
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... whole landscape . You hear his soft warble in every field . He sociably approaches your habitation , and takes up his residence in your vicinity . But why should I attempt to describe him , when I have Wilson's own graphic verses , to ...
... whole landscape . You hear his soft warble in every field . He sociably approaches your habitation , and takes up his residence in your vicinity . But why should I attempt to describe him , when I have Wilson's own graphic verses , to ...
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Page 56 - 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.
Page 333 - 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.
Page 113 - 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.
Page 341 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 34 - But in this genial interval, 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.
Page 106 - 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.
Page 35 - I might have addressed him in the words of Logan to the cuckoo : Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear Thou hast no sorrow in thy note, No winter in thy year. Oh 1 could I fly, I'd fly with thee ; "We'd make, on joyful wing, Our annual visit round the globe, . Companions of the spring...
Page 341 - 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...
Page 36 - The riceswamps of the South invite him. He gorges himself among them almost to bursting ; he can scarcely fly for corpulency. He has once more changed his name, and is now the famous Rice-bird of the Carolinas. Last stage of his career : behold him spitted, with dozens of his corpulent companions, and served up, a vaunted dish, on the table of some Southern gastronome.
Page 101 - 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.