Acadia, Or, A Month with the Blue NosesDerby & Jackson, 1859 - 329 Seiten |
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Abenaqui Acadian Balaklava Basin of Minas Bay of Fundy beach beautiful Bedford Basin blue Boab boat Bras d'Or brave British Bruce Canseau Cape Breton Cape Sable captain Castine Charles Etienne cheh Chezzetcook Citadel Citadel Hill city of Halifax coast colonists colony command Cookey D'Aulney deck Deer Deer's Castle dykes England English eyes filibusters fish French garrison Gasperau Grand-Pré green Halifax hands harbor head hill horse hundred hutch Indians island John Ormond lady lake land light look Louisburgh Malcolm McGibbet Micmac miles morning Nova Scotia ocean Picton pleasant pony pretty prisoner province Red-Cap ride River road Robbut rolling sail schooner Scotch settlement ships shore side soldiers sometimes soon steamer Sydney Tour town traveller vessel village wagon walk William WILLIAM DEER Wolfe yonder young
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Seite 42 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Seite 40 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Seite 39 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Seite 301 - This is the forest primeval; But where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, When he hears in the woodland The voice of the huntsman?
Seite 308 - Districts, both old men and young men, as well as all the lads of ten years of age, to attend at the church at Grand-Pr6, on Friday the fifth instant, at three of the clock in the afternoon, that we may impart to them what we are ordered to communicate to them...
Seite 297 - Real misery was wholly unknown, and benevolence anticipated the demands of poverty. Every misfortune was relieved, as it were, before it could be felt, without ostentation on the one hand, and without meanness on the other. It was, in short, a society of brethren ; every individual of which was equally ready to give, and to receive, what he thought the common right of mankind.
Seite 309 - Thus it is peremptorily his Majesty's orders, that the whole French inhabitants of these Districts be removed ; and I am, through his Majesty's goodness, directed to allow you liberty to carry off your money and household goods, as many as you can without discommoding the vessels you go in.
Seite 40 - Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them, Down the long street she passed with her chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and the ear-rings, Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heir-loom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations.
Seite 296 - ... wants. They therefore knew nothing of paper currency, which was so common throughout the rest of North America. Even the small quantity of...
Seite 203 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.