American scenery; or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature. From drawings by W.H. Bartlett, Volumen2George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane., 1840 American Scenery contains local history, anecdotes, and reflections prompted by the places depicted by Bartlett on tour with Willis and coordinated with each engraving; there are many tales of the American Revolution and of conflict with and removal of First Nation peoples, from a European expansionist perspective. The engravings generally include representations of people, with visual clues of dress and physical appearance signaling class, trade, and ethnicity, with signals of European dress and appearance predominating. Some few engravings signal other identities which can be construed as African and Indigenous. Very few engravings contain no human figures or built structures; representations signaling Indigenous people generally appear in settings that appear unchanged by non-Indigenous settlers. |
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... half disclosing and half concealing its pointed architecture ; and to its door , from every direction , tend aisles of lofty trees , overhanging the paths with shadow , as if the first thought of the primitive settlers had been to ...
... half disclosing and half concealing its pointed architecture ; and to its door , from every direction , tend aisles of lofty trees , overhanging the paths with shadow , as if the first thought of the primitive settlers had been to ...
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... half way down the precipice , people usually stop ( in spite of their hurry , and that absorbing matter , the care of their bag- gage ) to enjoy the only view , perhaps , which brings them near to the falling column in the midst of its ...
... half way down the precipice , people usually stop ( in spite of their hurry , and that absorbing matter , the care of their bag- gage ) to enjoy the only view , perhaps , which brings them near to the falling column in the midst of its ...
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... half , or two miles . Almost all the slime conveyed down the current at this season is deposited on these lands ; for here , principally , the water becomes quiescent , and permits the earthy particles to subside . This deposit is a ...
... half , or two miles . Almost all the slime conveyed down the current at this season is deposited on these lands ; for here , principally , the water becomes quiescent , and permits the earthy particles to subside . This deposit is a ...
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... half - written paper before him . He rose , with the pen in his hand , to receive a lady from another country , whose introduction to him was the prin- cipal object of the visit , and entered into conversation with that grace and ...
... half - written paper before him . He rose , with the pen in his hand , to receive a lady from another country , whose introduction to him was the prin- cipal object of the visit , and entered into conversation with that grace and ...
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... half- burnt faggots , and rekindled the blaze . Not a limb stirred , and not a breathing was interrupted . He gently pulled his brother and awoke him , and they both stood by the fire , with their captors sleeping soundly at their feet ...
... half- burnt faggots , and rekindled the blaze . Not a limb stirred , and not a breathing was interrupted . He gently pulled his brother and awoke him , and they both stood by the fire , with their captors sleeping soundly at their feet ...
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American Scenery: Or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of ..., Volúmenes1-2 Nathaniel Parker Willis Vista de fragmentos - 1840 |
Términos y frases comunes
American arch army Baltimore bank Barhydt's beautiful British Brooklyn building Capitol CATSKILL CATSKILL MOUNTAINS CATTERSKILL centre character Clinton Colonel command Connecticut descend enemy FAIR MOUNT fall FANEUIL HALL feet fire foliage forest formed Fort Montgomery friends front Goodwife Governor ground height hill Hudson hundred immediately Indians Island Johnson Lake George land live look miles Mohawk monument morning Mount Tom mountain murderer N. P. WILLIS Nathan Blake night OTHE Owaga party pass PASSAMAQUODDY BAY Peter Faneuil Philadelphia picturesque Potomac precipice President's House PRISON rear river road rock Sachem savages scalped scarcely scene scenery Schuylkill seen settlers shore side SING-SING PRISON skaiters skaites snow soon spirit spot stands story stream street Susquehannah TAPPAN SEA thou took town trees tribe Uncas UNDERCLIFF valley village Walford Washington Weehawken WH Bartlett whole wilderness wind woods
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Página 88 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Página 18 - When but an idle boy, I sought its grateful shade; In all their gushing joy, Here, too, my sisters played. My mother kissed me here; My father pressed my...
Página 18 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down?
Página 38 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge, is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land; on your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along tlie foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent.
Página 82 - If I should leave the land of my fathers, whither shall I fly? Shall I go to the south, and dwell among the graves of the Pequots? Shall I wander to the west, — the fierce Mohawk — the man-eater — is my foe. Shall I fly to the east, — the great water is before me. No, stranger ; here I have lived, and here will I die ; and if here thou abidest, there is eternal war between me and thee.
Página 88 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Página 65 - Master, and shewed him all the Countrey there about, as though it were at his command. So he made the two old men dine with him, and the old man's wife: for they brought two old women, and two young maidens of the age of sixteene or seventeene yeeres with them, who behaved themselves very modestly.
Página 71 - Their diet is maize, or Indian corn, divers ways prepared; sometimes roasted in the ashes; sometimes beaten and boiled with water; which they call homine; they also make cakes, not unpleasant to eat. They have likewise several sorts of beans and pease, that are good nourishment; and the woods and rivers are their larder.
Página 81 - Stranger, the land is mine! I understand not these paper rights. I gave not my consent, when, as thou sayest, these broad regions were purchased, for a few baubles, of my fathers.
Página 70 - Of their customs and manners, there is much to be said, I will begin with children; so soon as they are born they wash them in water, and while very young and in cold weather to choose, they plunge them in the rivers to harden and embolden them.