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... descended more than twenty feet to the bed of the river , which was nearly dry ;
and on the other , a strip of rank tropical vegetation separated it from a luxuriant
wood of acacias and trees of the palm kind , enclosed with a thick brush fence .
... descended more than twenty feet to the bed of the river , which was nearly dry ;
and on the other , a strip of rank tropical vegetation separated it from a luxuriant
wood of acacias and trees of the palm kind , enclosed with a thick brush fence .
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... involuntarily to their lips , and promises of eternal fidelity were exchanged , of
which the rocks and trees were the conscious witnesses . The fond couple were
married the next week , and the honey - moon THE CASCADE OF MELSINGAH .
... involuntarily to their lips , and promises of eternal fidelity were exchanged , of
which the rocks and trees were the conscious witnesses . The fond couple were
married the next week , and the honey - moon THE CASCADE OF MELSINGAH .
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... they pushed off from the shore , and were speedily on their way down the river .
They glided by the shore where now stands the town of Newburgh , then a steep
bank covered with tall trees , since renowned as the spot where the stern virtue ...
... they pushed off from the shore , and were speedily on their way down the river .
They glided by the shore where now stands the town of Newburgh , then a steep
bank covered with tall trees , since renowned as the spot where the stern virtue ...
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In a moment two Indians made their appearance coming through the trees . At
sight of the majestic figure in the grey mantle and plumes , they started and
uttered an exclamation of surprise . He waved his bow motioning them away .
One of ...
In a moment two Indians made their appearance coming through the trees . At
sight of the majestic figure in the grey mantle and plumes , they started and
uttered an exclamation of surprise . He waved his bow motioning them away .
One of ...
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... although fear produced something like regularity in their steps , towards that
part of the woods whence this mysterious music seemed to come . They wound
for some time above the brow of the hill , where the trees grew less thickly
together ...
... although fear produced something like regularity in their steps , towards that
part of the woods whence this mysterious music seemed to come . They wound
for some time above the brow of the hill , where the trees grew less thickly
together ...
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Seite ii - Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ; " and also to an act. entitled, " An act, supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietor? of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Seite 89 - Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd ' Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it in heaven a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a Lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those...
Seite 193 - Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Seite 193 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Seite 262 - Come, all ye quack bards, and ye quacking divines, Come, and dance on the spot where your tyrant reclines When satire and censure encircled his throne, I fear'd for your safety, I fear'd for my own : But now he is gone, and we want a detector, Our Dodds...
Seite ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Seite 192 - WILLIAM TELL. CHAINS may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee, TELL, of the iron heart! they could not tame ! For thou wert of the mountains ; they proclaim The everlasting creed of liberty. That creed is written on the untrampled snow, Thundered by torrents which no power can hold, Save that of God, when he sends forth his cold, And breathed by winds that through the free heave*, blow.
Seite 195 - And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle...
Seite 114 - And I wait, with a thrill in every vein, For the coming of the hurricane! And lo! on the wing of the heavy gales, Through the boundless arch of heaven he sails; Silent and slow, and terribly strong, The mighty shadow is borne along, Like the dark eternity to come...
Seite 115 - Darker — still darker ! the whirlwinds bear The dust of the plains to the middle air : And hark to the crashing, long and loud, Of the chariot of God in the thunder-cloud ! You may trace its path by the flashes that start From the rapid wheels where'er they dart, As the fire-bolts leap to the world below, And flood the skies with a lurid glow. What roar is that 1 — 'tis the rain that breaks, In torrents away...
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Talisman for ... |
| Herausgeber | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck |
| Verlag | Elam Bliss, 1827 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 6. Nov. 2007 |
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