The Poetry and History of Wyoming: Containing Campbell's GertrudeWiley & Putnam, 1841 - 324 páginas |
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... effect in rendering him an object of favour and attention , aided no doubt by his personal beauty , his generous sensibility , and the gentleness and modesty of his deportment . At twelve he entered the university of Glasgow , and in ...
... effect in rendering him an object of favour and attention , aided no doubt by his personal beauty , his generous sensibility , and the gentleness and modesty of his deportment . At twelve he entered the university of Glasgow , and in ...
Página xxi
... effect in causing an attachment . “ The writers of Great Britain are the adopted citizens of our country , and , though they have no legislative voice , ex- ercise a powerful influence over our opinions and affections . In these works ...
... effect in causing an attachment . “ The writers of Great Britain are the adopted citizens of our country , and , though they have no legislative voice , ex- ercise a powerful influence over our opinions and affections . In these works ...
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... effect is to mislead and to irritate , without serv- ing one valuable purpose . They engender gross prejudices in Great Britain , inimical to a proper national understanding , while with us they wither all those feelings of kindness and ...
... effect is to mislead and to irritate , without serv- ing one valuable purpose . They engender gross prejudices in Great Britain , inimical to a proper national understanding , while with us they wither all those feelings of kindness and ...
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... effect apprehended , and contributed to hasten a war between the two nations . That war , however , made us completely a nation , and destroyed our mental dependence on England forever . A literature of our own has subsequently sprung ...
... effect apprehended , and contributed to hasten a war between the two nations . That war , however , made us completely a nation , and destroyed our mental dependence on England forever . A literature of our own has subsequently sprung ...
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... And speak ! mysterious stranger ! " ( Gertrude cried ) yet waved in the agitation of the storm , and frequently add to the effect of a mountainous and picturesque scenery . - " It is it is ! I knew - 26 GERTRUDE OF WYOMING .
... And speak ! mysterious stranger ! " ( Gertrude cried ) yet waved in the agitation of the storm , and frequently add to the effect of a mountainous and picturesque scenery . - " It is it is ! I knew - 26 GERTRUDE OF WYOMING .
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Poetry and History of Wyoming: Containing Campbell's Gertrude William Leete Stone Vista completa - 1841 |
The Poetry and History of Wyoming; Containing Campbell's Gertrude Washington Irving,William L. Stone Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
The Poetry and History of Wyoming; Containing Campbell's Gertrude William L. Stone Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Términos y frases comunes
afterward arms arrival battle beauty blood Brant brother called Captain Chapman Charles Miner chief civil claim Colonel Dennison Colonel John Butler Colonel Pickering colony command Connecticut continental army council defence Delawares dians distance Durkee Easton enemy escape father fell fire Forty Franklin French garrison Gertrude GERTRUDE OF WYOMING Governor hatchet heart honour hundred Indians inhabitants Jenkins John Jenkins killed land Lazarus Stewart living massacre ment miles militia Mohawk Moravian mountains neighbours New-York night Ogden party peace Penn Pennsylvania Philadelphia Plymouth Company Pokono prisoners Proprietaries resided returned river savage scene Senecas sent settlements settlers Shawanese side Sir William Johnson Six Nations Slocum spirit STANZA Stewart surrender Susquehanna Company taken Teedyuscung territory thee thou tion took tories town Travels tribes troops valley of Wyoming wampum warrior wild Wilkesbarré women woods wounded young Zebulon Butler
Pasajes populares
Página 311 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Página 51 - Forbid not thee to weep : — Nor will the Christian host, Nor will thy father's spirit grieve, To see thee, on the battle's eve, Lamenting, take a mournful leave Of her who loved thee most: She was the rainbow to thy sight; Thy sun — thy heaven— of lost delight! " To-morrow let us do or die ! But when the bolt of death is hurl'd, Ah ! whither then with thee to fly, Shall Outalissi roam the world?
Página 13 - As monumental bronze unchanged his look: A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook : Train'd, from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook Impassive — fearing but the shame of fear— A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.
Página 324 - Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and, with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject...
Página 88 - Reasons we charge you to remove instantly; we don't give you the Liberty to think about it. You are Women. Take the Advice of a wise Man, and remove immediately.
Página xxvii - Susquehannah's side, fair Wyoming ! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring Of what thy gentle people did befall : Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore.
Página 40 - With all his howling desolating band ; — These eyes have seen their blade and burning pine Awake at once, and silence half your land. Red is the cup they drink ; but not with wine : Awake, and watch to-night, or see no morning shine...
Página 320 - ... resembles, at a distance, a great chunk of wood floating about : only the upper jaw moves, which they raise almost perpendicular, so as to form a right angle with the lower one. In the fore-part of the upper jaw, on each side, just under the- nostrils, are two very large, thick, strong teeth, or tusks, not very sharp, but rather the shape of a cone : these are as white...