Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Volumen2Joseph T. Buckingham, 1824 |
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... remains but ruins ; but they are extensive , and well defined , and will probably long endure as one evidence of the labours performed by our ancestors in the purchase of freedom . About half a mile in the rear of this plain , upon a ...
... remains but ruins ; but they are extensive , and well defined , and will probably long endure as one evidence of the labours performed by our ancestors in the purchase of freedom . About half a mile in the rear of this plain , upon a ...
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... , the latter by the servants who work on the plantation . The whole land is in a state of cultivation . Of the an- cient village nothing now remains , but the demolished ruins of a few houses , a part of the 34 JAMESTOWN ,
... , the latter by the servants who work on the plantation . The whole land is in a state of cultivation . Of the an- cient village nothing now remains , but the demolished ruins of a few houses , a part of the 34 JAMESTOWN ,
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... remains of many of the early adventurers . Over the ashes of some of them are erected monuments , perhaps the only memorials of their existence . Others , how- ever , who here found an end to their troubles , have by their learning ...
... remains of many of the early adventurers . Over the ashes of some of them are erected monuments , perhaps the only memorials of their existence . Others , how- ever , who here found an end to their troubles , have by their learning ...
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... remains , and such is the epitaph of the man , on whose eloquence courts and sen- ates have hung with admiration and delight . By his side and near him , sleep the ashes of Mr. Trimble , of Ohio -- Mr . Burrill , of Rhode - Island - Mr ...
... remains , and such is the epitaph of the man , on whose eloquence courts and sen- ates have hung with admiration and delight . By his side and near him , sleep the ashes of Mr. Trimble , of Ohio -- Mr . Burrill , of Rhode - Island - Mr ...
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... remains of Tobias Lear , which " his desolate widow and mourning son erected to mark the place of his abode in the city of silence , " and a plain tomb - stone to the memory of Mr. Machen ; with the classical and beautiful expression of ...
... remains of Tobias Lear , which " his desolate widow and mourning son erected to mark the place of his abode in the city of silence , " and a plain tomb - stone to the memory of Mr. Machen ; with the classical and beautiful expression of ...
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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...
Página 43 - Robbins was a Senator in the Congress of the United States from the State of...
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.