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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... shores , are momentarily concealed . As this misty curtain is withdrawn , the whole scene is disclosed . Beyond the American fall , which is immediately before him , and the wooded steeps of Goat Island , he sees the sublime curve of ...
... shores , are momentarily concealed . As this misty curtain is withdrawn , the whole scene is disclosed . Beyond the American fall , which is immediately before him , and the wooded steeps of Goat Island , he sees the sublime curve of ...
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... shore of the river ; and the selection of such a commanding and beau- tiful position at once decides the taste of its intellectual proprietor . In the rear of the villa , cultivation has placed her fruit and forest trees with a profuse ...
... shore of the river ; and the selection of such a commanding and beau- tiful position at once decides the taste of its intellectual proprietor . In the rear of the villa , cultivation has placed her fruit and forest trees with a profuse ...
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... shore are judiciously introduced to mark the perspective . The projecting bluff in the middle distance is thrown into shadow , and stands out in fine contrast from the light horizon , while the lights upon the solitary rock , the ...
... shore are judiciously introduced to mark the perspective . The projecting bluff in the middle distance is thrown into shadow , and stands out in fine contrast from the light horizon , while the lights upon the solitary rock , the ...
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... shore of the river ; and the selection of such a commanding and beau- tiful position at once decides the taste of its intellectual proprietor . In the rear of the villa , cultivation has placed her fruit and forest trees with a profuse ...
... shore of the river ; and the selection of such a commanding and beau- tiful position at once decides the taste of its intellectual proprietor . In the rear of the villa , cultivation has placed her fruit and forest trees with a profuse ...
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... shore , are blended there In wild reality . When life is old , And many a scene forgot , the heart will hold " Its memory of this ; nor lives there one Whose infant breath was drawn , or boyhood's days Of happiness were passed beneath ...
... shore , are blended there In wild reality . When life is old , And many a scene forgot , the heart will hold " Its memory of this ; nor lives there one Whose infant breath was drawn , or boyhood's days Of happiness were passed beneath ...
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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.