Stories of American Life, Volume 3Mary Russell Mitford H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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Stories of American Life; by American Writers, Volume 3 Mary Russell Mitford Visualização integral - 1830 |
Stories of American Life; by American Writers, Volume 3 Mary Russell Mitford Visualização integral - 1830 |
Stories of American Life; by American Writers, Volume 3 Mary Russell Mitford Visualização integral - 1830 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adela Alama Alice Amsterdam arrived aunts beautiful became Bonchard Buckhorn called Captain Jackson Catalina Catharine Charles Rivington child Civita Vecchia companion Cossack Courland daughter death Dirck Smet Doctor Rivington Dutch eyes father fear feelings fell fortune Françoise French gentleman girl governor hand happy heard heart heaven honour hope horse hour husband Indian Iroquois Jan Sol Judy knew lady laughing lived look MARY RUSSELL MITFORD mind morning mother Mudd murdered Natchez nature never night passed Paul Lorraine Père Mésnard person Petersburgh Petrus prisoner Ralph Ralph Hepburn replied returned RICHARD BENTLEY rifle Rosalie Rumley schiedam seemed seen side Silversight sloop smile soon spectre spirit stood story talk Telasco tell thing thought tion took traveller turned Utawas Viellecour voice whole wide prairies wife wings woman wounded Xalissa young
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Página 70 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and...
Página 36 - Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms, the day that cheers : The common growth of mother earth Suffices me — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.
Página 230 - scape, despis'd or aw'd, Rebellion's vengeful talons seize on Laud. From meaner minds, though smaller fines content The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent; Mark'd out by dangerous parts he meets the shock, And fatal Learning leads him to the block: Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep.
Página 127 - O MORTAL man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star, and early drudge and late, Withouten that would come a heavier bale, Loose life, unruly passions, and diseases pale.
Página 137 - What Diomede, nor Thetis' greater son, A thousand ships, nor ten years' siege, had done — False tears and fawning words the city won. "A greater omen, and of worse portent, Did our unwary minds with fear torment, Concurring to produce the dire event.
Página 212 - Birkel, the learned and able envoy of Holland. There, too, was Chancellor Livingston, then still in the prime of life, so deaf as to make conversation with him difficult, yet so overflowing with wit, eloquence and information, that while listening to him the difficulty was forgotten. The rest were members of Congress and of our legislature, gome of them no inconsiderable men.
Página 216 - I believe he did not reside there long,' said I. " ' No, he soon afterwards removed into the house built by the State for the governors, and then to Albany, so that I saw little of him in that house beyond a mere morning visit or two. No remaining object brings him to my mind so strongly as the square pew in Trinity Church, about the centre of the north side of the north aisle.
Página 222 - This Adonis,' replied Mr. Viellecour, ' is neither a smooth nor rose-cheeked boy, being in fact a black old man, or rather gentleman, for a gentleman he is every inch of him, although a barber. I say is, for I hope he is still alive and well, although I have not seen him for some years.
Página 210 - ... alteration is so rapid, that a few years effect what in Europe is the work of centuries, and sweep away both the memory and the external vestiges of the generation that precedes us. I was forcibly struck with this last reflection when not long since I took a walk with my friend, Mr. De Viellecour, during his last visit to New York, over what I recollected as the play-ground of myself and my companions in the time of my boyhood, and what Mr. De Viellecour remembered as the spot where his contemporaries...
Página 218 - ... the same unpretending but unerring sagacity as to men and measures, the same directness of purpose and firmness of decision. These qualities were exerted, as Governor during our Revolution, with such effect that the people never forgot it, and they witnessed their gratitude by confiding to him the government of this State for twenty-one years, and the second office in the Union for eight more. His behavior in society was plain but dignified, his conversation easy, shrewd, sensible, and commonly...