Tales and BalladsW. Crosby, 1884 - 190 pagini |
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Pagina 62
... English history . . . . His mind presents a surprising union of strength and versatility , of intellectual and practical power , and of an observing , reflective , philosophical with a highly imaginative or poetical temperament ...
... English history . . . . His mind presents a surprising union of strength and versatility , of intellectual and practical power , and of an observing , reflective , philosophical with a highly imaginative or poetical temperament ...
Pagina 67
... English parentage born within the present limits of the United States . Nine days after the little stranger appeared on the sandy shore of Roanoke , its grandfather sailed and did not return for three long , dreary years . He left with ...
... English parentage born within the present limits of the United States . Nine days after the little stranger appeared on the sandy shore of Roanoke , its grandfather sailed and did not return for three long , dreary years . He left with ...
Pagina 70
... English children , drew her breath on American land , drew her last breath before three summers had been given her ; but did she die of disease or of accident ? an Indian hatchet cleave her young body ? These are questions that never ...
... English children , drew her breath on American land , drew her last breath before three summers had been given her ; but did she die of disease or of accident ? an Indian hatchet cleave her young body ? These are questions that never ...
Pagina 71
... English do ; and the gray eyes sometimes found among them gives a slight ground for hope that the colonists lived , and were absorbed into the friendly tribes about them ; but that is all . The lost colony furnishes another mystery ...
... English do ; and the gray eyes sometimes found among them gives a slight ground for hope that the colonists lived , and were absorbed into the friendly tribes about them ; but that is all . The lost colony furnishes another mystery ...
Pagina 74
... English home . Love impelled Isabella Bovadilla to follow De Soto , and we may presume to say that the mother of Virginia Dare crossed the ocean from the same powerful motive . These were exceptions to the rule , and after Vir- ginia ...
... English home . Love impelled Isabella Bovadilla to follow De Soto , and we may presume to say that the mother of Virginia Dare crossed the ocean from the same powerful motive . These were exceptions to the rule , and after Vir- ginia ...
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Pagina 110 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Pagina 138 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Pagina 139 - Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses ; but we will remember the Name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down, and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright. 9 Save, LORD; and hear us, O King of heaven, when we call upon thee.
Pagina 163 - For force of will and vast conceptions; for various knowledge, and quick adaptation of his genius to untried circumstances ; for a sublime magnanimity, that resigned itself to the will of Heaven, and yet triumphed over affliction by energy of purpose and unfaltering hope — he had no superior among his countrymen.
Pagina 80 - Britons, you stay too long: Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you.
Pagina 71 - A dreary place would be this earth> Were there no little people in it: The song of life would lose its mirth, Were there no children to begin it...
Pagina 139 - In the name of the Most High, Mighty, and Redoubted Monarch, Louis, Fourteenth of that name, Most Christian King of France and of Navarre...
Pagina 137 - O tree with royal purple dight ! Elect on whose triumphal breast Those holy limbs should find their rest ! On whose dear arms, so widely flung, The weight of this world's ransom hung ; The price of human kind to pay, And spoil the spoiler of his prey.
Pagina 137 - THE Royal Banners forward go ; The Cross shines forth in mystic glow ; Where He in flesh, our flesh Who made, Our sentence bore, our ransom paid.
Pagina 51 - God's ordinance upon him, even so the vehement persuasion of his friends could nothing avail to divert him from his wilful resolution of going in his frigate; and when he was entreated by the captain, master, and others, his wellwishers in the " Hinde," not to venture, this was his answer — "I will not forsake my little company going homewards, with whom I have passed so many storms and perils.