The Heathcotes; or, The wept of Wish-Ton-WishRoutledge, 1855 - 273 Seiten |
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... That you may continue to enjoy peace and happiness in that land where your fathers so long flourished , is the sincere wish of your obliged friend , THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . Ar this distant period , when Indian traditions.
... That you may continue to enjoy peace and happiness in that land where your fathers so long flourished , is the sincere wish of your obliged friend , THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . Ar this distant period , when Indian traditions.
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James Fenimore Cooper. PREFACE . Ar this distant period , when Indian traditions are listened to with the interest ... Indians , who were , as usual , subdivided into num- berless dependent tribes . Of these people , the Massachusetts pos ...
James Fenimore Cooper. PREFACE . Ar this distant period , when Indian traditions are listened to with the interest ... Indians , who were , as usual , subdivided into num- berless dependent tribes . Of these people , the Massachusetts pos ...
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... Indian alarms , as they were termed , were not unfrequent , but , as yet , they had never produced more than terror in the bosoms of the gentle Ruth and her young offspring . It is true , they had heard of travellers massacred , and of ...
... Indian alarms , as they were termed , were not unfrequent , but , as yet , they had never produced more than terror in the bosoms of the gentle Ruth and her young offspring . It is true , they had heard of travellers massacred , and of ...
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... Indian arrow would make a surer aim than a bore as short as this ! When the trainer from the Hartford town struck the wild - cat on the hill clearing , he sent the bullet from a five - foot barrel ; besides , this short - sighted gun ...
... Indian arrow would make a surer aim than a bore as short as this ! When the trainer from the Hartford town struck the wild - cat on the hill clearing , he sent the bullet from a five - foot barrel ; besides , this short - sighted gun ...
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alarm appeared arms Azazel betrayed blood bosom calm Captain captive character chief child colony colour companion Conanchet conch Content countenance danger dark deep distance dost duty dwelling ears earth Eben Dudley enemy Ensign Ergot evidence Faith father favour fcap fear feeling fierce forest gaze girl glance grave habits hand hath heard heart heathen hour husband Indian instant John Gilbert known less light listened look maidens manner Mark Heathcote matter Meek Metacom Miantonimoh mind Mohegans mother musket Narra-mattah Narragansett nature never night pale-faces palisadoes passed path Pequots postern Puritan quiet reason returned Reuben Ring Ruth Sachem savage scene seemed seen settlement sound speak spirit spoke stood stranger thee thine thou hast thou knowest thought tion tomahawk trees tribe Uncas valley village voice warrior watch Whittal Ring wife wigwam Wish-Ton-Wish woman Wompanoag woods Yengeese young younker youth
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Seite 123 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o
Seite 216 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing...
Seite 70 - Flashy people may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people in a country, where they have as much mother- wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism can question them.
Seite 181 - AND the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord : and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Seite 185 - In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house : when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Seite 155 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Seite 206 - No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew : The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew.
Seite 185 - Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Seite 185 - But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the LORD : in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Seite 185 - ... the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.