Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost and Other PapersBernhard Tauchnitz, 1855 - 386 páginas |
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... looked forth , as with half - shut eyes , upon the Tappan Sea . The Indian spring famous in the days of the wizard sachem still welled up at the bottom of the green bank ; and the wild brook , wild as ever , came babbling down the ...
... looked forth , as with half - shut eyes , upon the Tappan Sea . The Indian spring famous in the days of the wizard sachem still welled up at the bottom of the green bank ; and the wild brook , wild as ever , came babbling down the ...
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... looked up to him with great deference , and was assiduous in rendering him petty attentions ; from which I concluded that he lived at home upon the crumbs which fell from his table . He was gayest when out of his sight ; and had his ...
... looked up to him with great deference , and was assiduous in rendering him petty attentions ; from which I concluded that he lived at home upon the crumbs which fell from his table . He was gayest when out of his sight ; and had his ...
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... looked forward to as an event in the village . Numbers of men , women , and children , white , yellow , and black , were collected on the river bank ; most of them clad in old - fashioned French garments , and their heads decorated with ...
... looked forward to as an event in the village . Numbers of men , women , and children , white , yellow , and black , were collected on the river bank ; most of them clad in old - fashioned French garments , and their heads decorated with ...
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... " I felt a wonderful self - complacency at being on such excellent terms with a man whom I considered on a parallel with the sages of antiquity , and looked down with a sentiment of pity on the feebler intellects 48 MOUNTJOY .
... " I felt a wonderful self - complacency at being on such excellent terms with a man whom I considered on a parallel with the sages of antiquity , and looked down with a sentiment of pity on the feebler intellects 48 MOUNTJOY .
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... looked into it for a moment , and then laid it down , with a slight supercilious smile . On the present occasion , out of mere listlessness , I took up the volume , and turned over a few of the first pages . I thought I heard some one ...
... looked into it for a moment , and then laid it down , with a slight supercilious smile . On the present occasion , out of mere listlessness , I took up the volume , and turned over a few of the first pages . I thought I heard some one ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
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.