Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost and Other PapersBernhard Tauchnitz, 1855 - 386 páginas |
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... , and have reared several broods there , for two years past , their nest being never disturbed . They arrive early in the spring , just when the crocus and the snow - drop begin to peep forth . 24 THE BIRDS OF SPRING .
... , and have reared several broods there , for two years past , their nest being never disturbed . They arrive early in the spring , just when the crocus and the snow - drop begin to peep forth . 24 THE BIRDS OF SPRING .
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... arrival is the more cheering , as it is pronounced by the old weather - wise people of the country , the sure sign that the severe frosts are at an end , and that the gardener may resume his labours with con- fidence . About this time ...
... arrival is the more cheering , as it is pronounced by the old weather - wise people of the country , the sure sign that the severe frosts are at an end , and that the gardener may resume his labours with con- fidence . About this time ...
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... arrival of the seigneur of fifty thousand dollars , and his humble companion , Compère Martin , had evidently been looked forward to as an event in the village . Numbers of men , women , and children , white , yellow , and black , were ...
... arrival of the seigneur of fifty thousand dollars , and his humble companion , Compère Martin , had evidently been looked forward to as an event in the village . Numbers of men , women , and children , white , yellow , and black , were ...
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Washington Irving. clothes and abandoned palaces of the great and wealthy . The arrival of Compère Martin was welcomed by a legion of women , children , and mongrel curs ; and as poverty and gaiety generally go hand in hand among the ...
Washington Irving. clothes and abandoned palaces of the great and wealthy . The arrival of Compère Martin was welcomed by a legion of women , children , and mongrel curs ; and as poverty and gaiety generally go hand in hand among the ...
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... arriving just in time to snatch me from a watery grave ; of the great difficulty in restoring me to animation ; and of my being subsequently conveyed , in a state of insensibility , to this mansion . " But where am I ? " was the ...
... arriving just in time to snatch me from a watery grave ; of the great difficulty in restoring me to animation ; and of my being subsequently conveyed , in a state of insensibility , to this mansion . " But where am I ? " was the ...
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Abencerrage Adalantado alcayde ancient arms bank beautiful became Bermudas birds bosom caravel castle cavalier Chronicles of Wolfert's commander Communipaw Count of Angoulême court cried daughter delighted Don Fernando Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans everything eyes fairy fancy father favourite felt forest fortune France French gave Glencoe hand heard heart honour horse Indians inhabitants island Julia kind king ladies land length livres looked Louis XIV louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed Phantom Island Pluto Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river round royal sachem seated seemed Serafina Seven Cities shore sister Sleepy Hollow Somers Somerville song soon spirit story thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose Wolfert Acker Wolfert's Roost Xarisa young youth
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Página 106 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Página 106 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 342 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Página 94 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 334 - And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Página 27 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Página 29 - The rice swamps of the south invite him. He gorges himself among them almost to bursting; he can scarcely fly for corpulency. He has once more changed his name, and is now the famous rice-bird of the Carolinas. Last stage of his career: behold him spitted, with dozens of his corpulent companions, and served up, a vaunted dish, on the table of some southern gastronome.
Página 46 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 30 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Página 26 - Nature is in all her freshness and fragrance: "the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.