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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... young man , a Penn- sylvanian , an American author , inscribe this hoop of the battle - field , with your name . With all my heart , as one of that innumerable band of young men , who cherish your name in their souls , I lay this ...
... young man , a Penn- sylvanian , an American author , inscribe this hoop of the battle - field , with your name . With all my heart , as one of that innumerable band of young men , who cherish your name in their souls , I lay this ...
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... young American author , who may feel the hoof of persecution in his breast , as I have felt it . And now sir , to pass between the subject , to one which affords a feeling of pleasure , mingled with bitterness , let me present to you ...
... young American author , who may feel the hoof of persecution in his breast , as I have felt it . And now sir , to pass between the subject , to one which affords a feeling of pleasure , mingled with bitterness , let me present to you ...
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... young forms , undulating in the graceful circles of the dance , say as this light , this beauty , this motion dazzles your eyes , as the music fills your ears , do you not envy that old man , the lord of this proud mansion ; do you not ...
... young forms , undulating in the graceful circles of the dance , say as this light , this beauty , this motion dazzles your eyes , as the music fills your ears , do you not envy that old man , the lord of this proud mansion ; do you not ...
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... young too and yet to die ! Could none of ye save her ? As she wandered by the lake , why did ye not warn her from the brink ? Ye saw her , hurry from the hall , ye saw her white form , gleaming among the trees , ye heard the plunge ...
... young too and yet to die ! Could none of ye save her ? As she wandered by the lake , why did ye not warn her from the brink ? Ye saw her , hurry from the hall , ye saw her white form , gleaming among the trees , ye heard the plunge ...
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... young 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 ...
... young 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 ...
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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...