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... answered John Alden , but looked not up from his writing : " Truly the breath of the Lord hath slackened the speed of the bullet ; He in his mercy preserved you , to be our shield and our weapon ! " Still the Captain ° continued ...
... answered John Alden , but looked not up from his writing : " Truly the breath of the Lord hath slackened the speed of the bullet ; He in his mercy preserved you , to be our shield and our weapon ! " Still the Captain ° continued ...
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... Cæsar ! You are a writer , and I am a fighter , but here is a fellow Who could both write and fight , and in both was equally skilful ! " Straightway answered and spake John Alden , the comely , 6 THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH.
... Cæsar ! You are a writer , and I am a fighter , but here is a fellow Who could both write and fight , and in both was equally skilful ! " Straightway answered and spake John Alden , the comely , 6 THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Straightway answered and spake John Alden , the comely , the youthful : " Yes , he was equally skilled , as you say , with his pen and his weapons . 95 Somewhere have I read , but where I forget , he could ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Straightway answered and spake John Alden , the comely , the youthful : " Yes , he was equally skilled , as you say , with his pen and his weapons . 95 Somewhere have I read , but where I forget , he could ...
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... answered the Captain , embarrassed , and cull- ing his phrases : " " Tis not good for a man to be alone , say the Scriptures . ° This I have said before , and again and again I repeat it ; Every hour in the day , I think it , and feel ...
... answered the Captain , embarrassed , and cull- ing his phrases : " " Tis not good for a man to be alone , say the Scriptures . ° This I have said before , and again and again I repeat it ; Every hour in the day , I think it , and feel ...
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... answer and spake , or rather stammered than answered : " Such a message as that , I am sure I should mangle and mar it ; ― If you would have it well done , I am only repeating - your maxim , — You must do it yourself , you must not ...
... answer and spake , or rather stammered than answered : " Such a message as that , I am sure I should mangle and mar it ; ― If you would have it well done , I am only repeating - your maxim , — You must do it yourself , you must not ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
angels beautiful behold BELFRY OF BRUGES breath bright Cæsar Captain of Plymouth clouds Courtship of Miles dark dead Death dreams dreary earth Edited England Epimetheus Euroclydon Excelsior eyes feel feet fire Flanders flowers forest Forever never GASPAR BECERRA gleam golden grave hand Hawthorne's hear heard heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow HUMPHREY GILBERT Indian John Alden Julius Cæsar land laugh leaves light living Longfellow look Lord loud maiden Mayflower Miles Standish mist Never forever night Norsemen o'er ocean phantoms Plymouth poem poet poet's prayer Priscilla Puritan rain river roar round sail Sandalphon seemed shadows ship silent singing sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul sound spake stars stood strong sweet thee Thereupon answered thou thoughts of youth tide town unto Victor Galbraith village voice W. D. Howells walls wave wild wind woods words youth are long ΙΟ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 72 - When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight...
Seite 155 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.
Seite 127 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Seite 93 - THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.
Seite 189 - And the bugle wild and shrill. And the music of that old song Throbs in my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Seite 197 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Seite 97 - His hair is crisp, and black and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Seite 143 - We know what Master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Seite 188 - OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Seite 153 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair...