Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Volumen2Joseph T. Buckingham, 1824 |
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... face of its waters . Its serpentine windings ; its deep recesses ; the little cottage under the rocky heights , and isolated , as it were , from the rest of the world ; the splendid mansion in the distance , surrounded by dark foliage ...
... face of its waters . Its serpentine windings ; its deep recesses ; the little cottage under the rocky heights , and isolated , as it were , from the rest of the world ; the splendid mansion in the distance , surrounded by dark foliage ...
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... face ; at another , health would attend their exer- tions , and plenty crown their board . Now , success , and victory , and joy , would await their banner , and illumine their horizon ; then defeat and massacre , and despair , would ...
... face ; at another , health would attend their exer- tions , and plenty crown their board . Now , success , and victory , and joy , would await their banner , and illumine their horizon ; then defeat and massacre , and despair , would ...
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... face of the pillar is an inscription , similar throughout , with the exception of names and dates . I shall give that of Mr. Pinkney as a sample , be- cause he is among the most distinguished in this assem- blage of the dead , and ...
... face of the pillar is an inscription , similar throughout , with the exception of names and dates . I shall give that of Mr. Pinkney as a sample , be- cause he is among the most distinguished in this assem- blage of the dead , and ...
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... face , her hide would not have held sucks in two minutes ; mean- ing , probably , that he would have peforated it with so many bullets , as to have made a riddle of it . The word counterfeit , so often made use of in this interesting ...
... face , her hide would not have held sucks in two minutes ; mean- ing , probably , that he would have peforated it with so many bullets , as to have made a riddle of it . The word counterfeit , so often made use of in this interesting ...
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... faces , too , were painted , though in a less fantastic style than usual . The squaw sat on a sofa near her husband , dressed in scarlet pantaloons , and wrapped in a green camblet cloak , without any ornament on her black hair . They ...
... faces , too , were painted , though in a less fantastic style than usual . The squaw sat on a sofa near her husband , dressed in scarlet pantaloons , and wrapped in a green camblet cloak , without any ornament on her black hair . They ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Alesworth appeared arms Auld Lang Syne beautiful bird bless bosom cadets called character Charleston civilized cold command Connecticut deacon dead death dress earth epaulette Ezekiel father favour fear feelings feet Fort Montgomery fortune friends genius gentleman genuity George Clinton give grave hand happiness head heart heaven honour hope human Indian inhabitants JACOB PERKINS knowledge labour lady land learned light live look memory ment mind moral morning mountain nature never New-York night o'er O'Fallon object opinion passed Perkins person pleasure Plymouth bay portunities Quashee recollect river rock ruins SAM JONES Sambo savage scene seemed seen shake shew shore smile soon soul spirit stalactites sweet tears thee thing thou tion tourniquet Twas village virtues wave ween Weston wind Yankee Yankee doodle dandy young youth
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Página 18 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 18 - Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
Página 250 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Página 249 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
Página 63 - And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime ? O, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar ? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to HIM Who drowned a world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains ? — a light wave That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might.
Página 250 - ... like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own; And when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting the wreck on shore; Then far below in the peaceful sea, The purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the waters murmur tranquilly, Through the bending twigs of...
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Página 61 - mid the cheerless hours of night, A mother wandered with her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone — " O God," she cried, in accents wild, " If I must perish, save my child!
Página 102 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue, That education gives her, false or true.
Página 59 - The fox and the panther, both beasts of the night, Retire to their dens on the gleaming of light, And they spring with a free and a sorrowless track, For they know that their mates are expecting them back. Each bird and each beast, it is blessed in degree ; All nature is cheerful, all happy, but me.