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... eye and , wheeling about , in- demnify themselves by foraging the refugee region of Morrisania . While the debatable land was liable to be thus harried , the great Tappan Sea , along which it extends , was likewise domineered over by ...
... eye and , wheeling about , in- demnify themselves by foraging the refugee region of Morrisania . While the debatable land was liable to be thus harried , the great Tappan Sea , along which it extends , was likewise domineered over by ...
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... eyes , upon the Tappan Sea . The Indian spring , famous in the days of the wizard sachem , still welled up at the bottom of the green bank ; and the wild brook , wild as ever , came babbling down the ravine , and threw itself into the ...
... eyes , upon the Tappan Sea . The Indian spring , famous in the days of the wizard sachem , still welled up at the bottom of the green bank ; and the wild brook , wild as ever , came babbling down the ravine , and threw itself into the ...
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... an old negro thrust his head all dabbled with flour , out of a hole above the water wheel , and grinned and rolled his eyes , and appeared to be the very hobgob- lin of the place . Yet this proved to be 28 WOLFERT'S ROOST .
... an old negro thrust his head all dabbled with flour , out of a hole above the water wheel , and grinned and rolled his eyes , and appeared to be the very hobgob- lin of the place . Yet this proved to be 28 WOLFERT'S ROOST .
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... eyes that stood out like glass knobs , and a prominent nose , which he frequently regaled from a gold snuff - box , and occasionally blew with a colored handkerchief , until it sounded like a trumpet . He was attended by an old negro ...
... eyes that stood out like glass knobs , and a prominent nose , which he frequently regaled from a gold snuff - box , and occasionally blew with a colored handkerchief , until it sounded like a trumpet . He was attended by an old negro ...
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... eye , which bespoke perfect confidence that he would not be forgotten . Nor was he- every now and then a huge morsel would be thrown to him , perad- venture the half - picked leg of a fowl , which he would receive with a snap like the ...
... eye , which bespoke perfect confidence that he would not be forgotten . Nor was he- every now and then a huge morsel would be thrown to him , perad- venture the half - picked leg of a fowl , which he would receive with a snap like the ...
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Abencerrage Adalantado Alcayde ancient arms bank beautiful became beheld Bermudas bosom caravel castle cavalier commander Communipaw companions Count Count of Angouleme court cried daughter delighted Don Fernando Don Luis Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans eyes fairy fancy father forest fortune Foulquerre France French gave Glencoe grand hand heard heart honor horse Indians inhabitants island Julia Julia Somerville kind king knew ladies land length livres looked louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed phantom island Pluto Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river Roost round royal sachem seated seemed Seneschal Serafina Seven Cities shore sister Sleepy Hollow Somerville soon spirit story thing thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose Wolfert Acker worthy Xarisa young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 57 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 102 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 114 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Seite 334 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice, Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Seite 342 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Seite 36 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Seite 34 - But in this genial interval, natu/e is in all her freshness and fragrance " the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
Seite 342 - Break, Phantsie, from thy cave of cloud, And wave thy purple wings, Now all thy figures are allowed, And various shapes of things. Create of airy forms a stream ; It must have blood and...
Seite 107 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Seite 41 - town lots'," "water privileges," "railroads," and other comprehensive and soul-stirring words from the speculator's vocabulary, are never heard. The residents dwell in the houses built by their forefathers, without thinking of enlarging or modernizing them, or pulling them down and turning them into granite stores. The trees under which they have been born, and have played in infancy, flourish undisturbed ; though, by cutting them down, they might open new streets, and put money in their pockets....