A Week on the Concord and Merrimac RiversHoughton, Mifflin, 1893 - 531 páginas |
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... RIVER " The respectable folks " SATURDAY " Ah , ' t is in vain the peaceful din " " Here then an aged shepherd dwelt " 66 On Ponkawtasset , since we took our way ' SUNDAY " An early unconverted Saint " " Low in the eastern sky ...
... RIVER " The respectable folks " SATURDAY " Ah , ' t is in vain the peaceful din " " Here then an aged shepherd dwelt " 66 On Ponkawtasset , since we took our way ' SUNDAY " An early unconverted Saint " " Low in the eastern sky ...
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... River . 50 cops . , so Munroe had only to cross out ' River ' and write ' Mass . , ' and deliver them to the express- man at once . I can see now what I write for , the result of my labors . Nevertheless , in spite of this result ...
... River . 50 cops . , so Munroe had only to cross out ' River ' and write ' Mass . , ' and deliver them to the express- man at once . I can see now what I write for , the result of my labors . Nevertheless , in spite of this result ...
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... river with a pleasant wind , New lands , new people , and new thoughts to find ; Many fair reaches and headlands appeared , And many dangers were there to be feared ; But when I remember where I have been , And the fair landscapes that ...
... river with a pleasant wind , New lands , new people , and new thoughts to find ; Many fair reaches and headlands appeared , And many dangers were there to be feared ; But when I remember where I have been , And the fair landscapes that ...
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... River as long as grass grows and water runs here ; it will be Concord River only while men lead peaceable lives on its banks . To an extinct race it was grass - ground , where they hunted and fished ; and it is still perennial grass ...
... River as long as grass grows and water runs here ; it will be Concord River only while men lead peaceable lives on its banks . To an extinct race it was grass - ground , where they hunted and fished ; and it is still perennial grass ...
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... River , it enters Concord at the south part of the town , and after receiving the North or Assabeth River , which has its source a little farther to the north and west , goes out at the northeast angle , and flowing between Bedford and ...
... River , it enters Concord at the south part of the town , and after receiving the North or Assabeth River , which has its source a little farther to the north and west , goes out at the northeast angle , and flowing between Bedford and ...
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Anacreon ancient bank beauty behold Billerica boat Brahmans called Chelmsford clouds Concord Concord River distant doth dream Dunstable earth English eyes falls fishes floating flow flowers forest FRANCIS QUARLES freshet Friend Friendship genius gods Goffstown grass Haverhill hear heard heavens hills Homer Hooksett Indians inhabitants island labor land leaves length light lives look Lowell man's mankind meadows Merrimack Merrimack River miles morning mountains muskrats Nashua nature never night noon Ossian passed Pawtucket Falls Penacook perchance Philyra PINDAR pine poet poetry Pylians Pythagoras race rare river Robin Hood rocks round Sachem sail Salmon Brook sand says seemed seen sense sentences serene shine shore side silent sometimes sound speak stand stars stones stream summer things thou thought tion town traveler trees true truth Tyngsborough wild wind wisdom woods words
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Página 8 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Página 82 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Página 150 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 120 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Página 113 - Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man 'cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institutions — such I call good books.
Página 391 - The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.
Página 118 - Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
Página 194 - Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
Página 504 - Therefore, as doth the pilgrim, whom the night Hastes darkly to imprison on his way, Think on thy home, my soul, and think aright Of what's yet left thee of life's wasting day: Thy sun posts westward, passed is thy morn, And twice it is not given thee to be born.
Página 334 - And what avails it now that we are wise, If absence doth this doubleness contrive ? Eternity may not the chance repeat, But I must tread my single way alone, In sad remembrance that we once did meet, And know that bliss irrevocably gone.