Blanche of Brandywine: Or, September the Eleventh, 1777. A Romance, Combining the Poetry, Legend, and History of the Battle of BrandywineG. B. Zieber & Company, 1846 - 343 páginas |
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... lord of this proud mansion ; do you not long for the destiny of that beautiful girl , who with the lily in her glossy hair , stands there , alone amid the throng , her dark eye gleaming with the memory of one , now far away ? Gaze from ...
... lord of this proud mansion ; do you not long for the destiny of that beautiful girl , who with the lily in her glossy hair , stands there , alone amid the throng , her dark eye gleaming with the memory of one , now far away ? Gaze from ...
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... lord ; but the others , are sacred to the Earl . No form , but his , may pass their threshold ; no voice but his , disturb the echo of their walls . " It is the Seventeenth of July ! " said the Earl , and the cold drops , started out ...
... lord ; but the others , are sacred to the Earl . No form , but his , may pass their threshold ; no voice but his , disturb the echo of their walls . " It is the Seventeenth of July ! " said the Earl , and the cold drops , started out ...
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... lord , leaning over the oaken table , while his face glowed in the light of the lamp beams " & dark , a fearful , and an eternal hell - far more dread , far more terrible , than the flames of a never - ending fire , imagined by priests ...
... lord , leaning over the oaken table , while his face glowed in the light of the lamp beams " & dark , a fearful , and an eternal hell - far more dread , far more terrible , than the flames of a never - ending fire , imagined by priests ...
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... lord flashed with a clear and brilliant , yet strange expression , and his small and finely chisselled features were impressed with a calmness that was too fixed to be natural , too rigid to indicate aught but powerful , yet suppressed ...
... lord flashed with a clear and brilliant , yet strange expression , and his small and finely chisselled features were impressed with a calmness that was too fixed to be natural , too rigid to indicate aught but powerful , yet suppressed ...
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... lord , this idea of falling in love with a - a - rustic beauty , and wishing to marry her at that ! Curse me , my lord , but it's in such bad taste ? " " Captain Howard , I am in no mood for trifling ! " exclaimed the young lord in a ...
... lord , this idea of falling in love with a - a - rustic beauty , and wishing to marry her at that ! Curse me , my lord , but it's in such bad taste ? " " Captain Howard , I am in no mood for trifling ! " exclaimed the young lord in a ...
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Blanche of Brandywine, Or, September the Eleventh, 1777: A Romance ... George Lippard Vista completa - 1846 |
Términos y frases comunes
arms band banner battle beautiful beheld blacksmith Blanche blood blue bosom Brandywine brave breast British British army brow Captain Chadd's Ford cheek Clerwoode cloud Colonel Frazier Continental army Count Pulaski cried dark eyes David Walford dead death Debbil deep door exclaimed face father fell flashed forest gallant gallant band gazed Gilbert Gates girl glance glare gleaming glittering Gotlieb Hoff grasp graveyard green green velvet grey hair hand head heart Hessian hill Hirpley horse hurrah knife La Fayette Lady Isidore light lips look Lord Cornwallis Lord Percy maiden Mayland mingled Monthermer murmured muttered pacquet pale Philip Walford Quaker quivering Randulph the Prince Riders rifle Rose ruffian Sampson scene scythe shadow shone shoulder shouted shrieked side silent slouching hat smile smoke soldier soul steed stood stout strange stranger sword terrible thee tone trees trembling troopers valley voice war horse Washington waving whispered wild woods word yonder
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Página 286 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 287 - But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him. Howe is as much deceived by you as the American cause is injured by you.
Página 66 - You see," said Mr. Pecksniff, passing the candle rapidly from roll to roll of paper, "some traces of our doings here. Salisbury Cathedral from the north. From the south. From the east. From the west. From the south-east. From the nor'-west. A bridge. An alms-house. A jail. A church. A powder-magazine. A wine-cellar. A portico. A summer-house. An ice-house. Plans, elevations, sections, every kind of thing. And this...