Cooper's Novels, Volumul 13Stringer and Townsend, 1853 |
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Pagina 24
... never been known to miss one end of the trail , when there was a Mingo , or a friend , who stood in need of me , at the other . " This was not uttered boastfully , but with the honest con- fidence of one , who well knew that by whatever ...
... never been known to miss one end of the trail , when there was a Mingo , or a friend , who stood in need of me , at the other . " This was not uttered boastfully , but with the honest con- fidence of one , who well knew that by whatever ...
Pagina 27
... never dreams of , though you may , possibly , have education enough to guess at it , having some pretensions to understand the compass , I suppose . ' " " " The reason is easily comprehended , " said the young man , involuntarily ...
... never dreams of , though you may , possibly , have education enough to guess at it , having some pretensions to understand the compass , I suppose . ' " " " The reason is easily comprehended , " said the young man , involuntarily ...
Pagina 28
... never so flattering , or so agreeable , as when it comes from the young to those of their own age ; from the manly to the gentle . Like most of those who pass their time excluded from the society of the softer sex , young Western was ...
... never so flattering , or so agreeable , as when it comes from the young to those of their own age ; from the manly to the gentle . Like most of those who pass their time excluded from the society of the softer sex , young Western was ...
Pagina 29
... never believed much in the learning of them that dwell in towns , for I ne ver yet met with one that had an eye for a rifle , or a trail . " " That's my manner of reasoning , Master Pathfinder , to a yarn . Walking about streets , going ...
... never believed much in the learning of them that dwell in towns , for I ne ver yet met with one that had an eye for a rifle , or a trail . " " That's my manner of reasoning , Master Pathfinder , to a yarn . Walking about streets , going ...
Pagina 30
... never slept more sweetly than when I have fi't the Mingos , though it is the law with me to fight always like a white man , and never like an Indian . The Sarpent , here , has his fashions , and I have mine ; and yet have we fou't ...
... never slept more sweetly than when I have fi't the Mingos , though it is the law with me to fight always like a white man , and never like an Indian . The Sarpent , here , has his fashions , and I have mine ; and yet have we fou't ...
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answered Arrowhead believe better block-house boat brother Cap bushes calash canoe Chingachgook command companion concealed countenance cutter daugh dear father Delaware distrust doubt enemy eyes face fancy father fear feelings felt finder fire forest French fresh-water frontier garrison gifts girl hand head heard heart heroine honour hope Indian instant Iroquois island Jasper Eau-douce Jasper Western June Killdeer knew lake land laughing leave Lieutenant Muir look Lundie Mabel Dunham Major Duncan manner Master Cap Master Pathfinder means mind Mingo minutes nature never night Ontario opinion Oswego paddle party passed Path pretty Quarter-Master red-skin returned rienced rifle river sail sailor Sarpent savages scalp Scud seen Serjeant Dunham serjeant's daughter shore smile soldier soon speak spot stood stream tell thing thought Thousand Islands tion trail trees true truth Tuscarora uncle venison vessel warrior wife wind wish woman woods words young
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Pagina 3 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, Dark-heaving, boundless, endless and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Pagina 108 - I pray, the vision with thy voice: This is our palace, — yonder is thy throne; Speak, and the floor thou tread'st on will rejoice. Not to appal me have the gods bestowed This precious boon; and blest a sad abode.
Pagina 165 - There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now the sun is rising calm and bright; The birds are singing in the distant woods...
Pagina 209 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Pagina 128 - Now, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Pagina 40 - Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed ; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood ; And torrents dashed and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade.
Pagina 176 - You saw but sorrow in its waning form, A working sea remaining from a storm Where now the weary waves roll o'er the deep, And faintly murmur ere they fall asleep,
Pagina 3 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime...
Pagina 82 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months...
Pagina 163 - The respect for Pathfinder's skill and for his quickness and accuracy of sight [the italics are mine] was so profound and general, that the instant he made this declaration the spectators began to distrust their own opinions, and a dozen rushed to the target in order to ascertain the fact. There, sure enough, it was found that the Quartermaster's bullet had gone through the hole made by Jasper's, and...