The Poetry and History of Wyoming: Containing Campbell's GertrudeWiley & Putnam, 1841 - 324 páginas |
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... hand by mountains lofty and wild , and over which long and rugged roads must be travelled to reach it , Wyoming is rarely visited , except from stern necessity . And yet the im- agination of Johnson has not pictured so lovely a spot in ...
... hand by mountains lofty and wild , and over which long and rugged roads must be travelled to reach it , Wyoming is rarely visited , except from stern necessity . And yet the im- agination of Johnson has not pictured so lovely a spot in ...
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... hand to hand and foot to foot . All that is fierce and brutal , selfish and unrelenting , bitter and vindictive , in the passions of men embroiled in civil strife , has been displayed there . All that is lofty in patriotism — all that ...
... hand to hand and foot to foot . All that is fierce and brutal , selfish and unrelenting , bitter and vindictive , in the passions of men embroiled in civil strife , has been displayed there . All that is lofty in patriotism — all that ...
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... hand of charity withheld the pittance that would have relieved his necessities . But this tardiness in awarding merit its due , this prefer- ence continually shown to departed authors , over living ones of perhaps superior excellence ...
... hand of charity withheld the pittance that would have relieved his necessities . But this tardiness in awarding merit its due , this prefer- ence continually shown to departed authors , over living ones of perhaps superior excellence ...
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... said , And laid his hand upon the stripling's head , " Peace be to thee ! my words this belt approve ; The paths of peace my steps have hither led : 1 BRARY : NOX NDATION า ๆ This little nursling 8 GERTRUDE OF WYOMING . 00.
... said , And laid his hand upon the stripling's head , " Peace be to thee ! my words this belt approve ; The paths of peace my steps have hither led : 1 BRARY : NOX NDATION า ๆ This little nursling 8 GERTRUDE OF WYOMING . 00.
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... hands , the olive stalk ; But snakes are in the bosoms of their race , And though they held with us a friendly talk , The hollow peace - tree fell beneath their toma- kawk ! XVI . " It was encamping on the lake's far port , A cry of ...
... hands , the olive stalk ; But snakes are in the bosoms of their race , And though they held with us a friendly talk , The hollow peace - tree fell beneath their toma- kawk ! XVI . " It was encamping on the lake's far port , A cry of ...
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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...