The Heathcotes; or, The wept of Wish-Ton-WishRoutledge, 1855 - 273 Seiten |
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... savage heroism . Virginia has its legend of the powerful Powhattan and his magnanimous daughter , the ill - re- quited Pocahontas ; and the chronicles of New England are filled with the bold designs and daring enterprises of Miantonimoh ...
... savage heroism . Virginia has its legend of the powerful Powhattan and his magnanimous daughter , the ill - re- quited Pocahontas ; and the chronicles of New England are filled with the bold designs and daring enterprises of Miantonimoh ...
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... the de- scendants of those who laid waste their dominions and destroyed their race are yielding a tardy tribute to the high daring and savage grandeur of their characters . THE HEATHCOTES ; OR , THE WEPT OF WISH - viii PREFACE .
... the de- scendants of those who laid waste their dominions and destroyed their race are yielding a tardy tribute to the high daring and savage grandeur of their characters . THE HEATHCOTES ; OR , THE WEPT OF WISH - viii PREFACE .
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... savage . It is true that hundreds experienced the uneasiness of such sensations , who were never fated to undergo the realities of the fearful pictures . Still facts were not wanting to supply sufficient motive for a grave and ...
... savage . It is true that hundreds experienced the uneasiness of such sensations , who were never fated to undergo the realities of the fearful pictures . Still facts were not wanting to supply sufficient motive for a grave and ...
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... savage . Sleep was little like to come over me , when set upon a watch like this . I thought me that the errand was of unknown character , and that our father was exceedingly aged , and that perchance his senses might be duped , and how ...
... savage . Sleep was little like to come over me , when set upon a watch like this . I thought me that the errand was of unknown character , and that our father was exceedingly aged , and that perchance his senses might be duped , and how ...
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... savage , and they passed no angle in the high and heavy fences , without throwing a jealous glance to see that some enemy did not lie stretched within its shadows . Still , no new motive for apprehension arose during the brief period ...
... savage , and they passed no angle in the high and heavy fences , without throwing a jealous glance to see that some enemy did not lie stretched within its shadows . Still , no new motive for apprehension arose during the brief period ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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.