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... river , which , it is said , was gifted by him with rejuvenating powers , something like the renowned Foun tain of Youth in the Floridas , so anxiously but vainly sought after by the veteran Ponce de Leon . This story , however , is ...
... river , which , it is said , was gifted by him with rejuvenating powers , something like the renowned Foun tain of Youth in the Floridas , so anxiously but vainly sought after by the veteran Ponce de Leon . This story , however , is ...
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... River to Spiting Devil Creek was the debatable ground in question , liable to be harried by friend and foe , like the Scottish borders of yore . It is a rugged region ; full of fastnesses . A line of rocky hills extends through it like ...
... River to Spiting Devil Creek was the debatable ground in question , liable to be harried by friend and foe , like the Scottish borders of yore . It is a rugged region ; full of fastnesses . A line of rocky hills extends through it like ...
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... river road , or the valley of the Neperan . Before they were half way down , Jacob Van Tassel , with the holy brotherhood of Tarrytown , Petticoat Sleepy Hollow , would be clattering at their heels . there would be a general scamper for ...
... river road , or the valley of the Neperan . Before they were half way down , Jacob Van Tassel , with the holy brotherhood of Tarrytown , Petticoat Sleepy Hollow , would be clattering at their heels . there would be a general scamper for ...
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... river of which they were so proud , reduced to a state of thraldom . Councils of war were held by captains of market - boats and other river craft , to devise ways and means of dislodging the enemy . Here and there on a point of land ex ...
... river of which they were so proud , reduced to a state of thraldom . Councils of war were held by captains of market - boats and other river craft , to devise ways and means of dislodging the enemy . Here and there on a point of land ex ...
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... river and hardy youngsters of the adjacent country , expert at pulling an oar or handling a musket . They were provided with whale - boats , long and sharp , shaped like canoes , and formed to lie lightly on the water , and be rowed ...
... river and hardy youngsters of the adjacent country , expert at pulling an oar or handling a musket . They were provided with whale - boats , long and sharp , shaped like canoes , and formed to lie lightly on the water , and be rowed ...
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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
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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....