Cooper's Novels, Band 30Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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Seite 185 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. CADE Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Seite 107 - E say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave ; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave ; That, 'mid the forests where they roamed, There rings no hunter's shout ; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.
Seite 168 - And underneath that face, like summer ocean's, Its lip as moveless, and its cheek as clear, Slumbers a whirlwind of the heart's emotions, Love, hatred, pride, hope, sorrow — all save fear.
Seite 117 - Jefferson said, if he were to choose between a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, he would take the last." " Ay, Jefferson did not mean newspapers as they are now. I am old enough to see the change that has taken place. In his day, three or four fairly convicted lies would damn any editor ; now, there are men that stand up under a thousand. I'll tell you what, Hugh, this country is jogging on under two of the most antagonist systems possible — Christianity and the...
Seite 118 - I see thee still : Remembrance, faithful to her trust, Calls thee in beauty from the dust ; Thou comest in the morning light, Thou'rt with me through the gloomy night ; In dreams I meet thee as of old ; Then thy soft arms my neck enfold, And thy sweet voice is in my ear ; In every scene to memory dear, I see thee still.
Seite 49 - With look like patient Job's eschewing evil; With motions graceful as a bird's in air; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clinched fingers in a captive's hair...
Seite 226 - This is worse than visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations.
Seite 18 - If he were with me, King of Tuscarora ! Gazing, as I, upon thy portrait now, In all its medalled, fringed, and beaded glory, Its eye's dark beauty, and its thoughtful brow — Its brow, half martial, and half diplomatic, Its eye, upsoaring like an eagle's wings ; Well might he boast that we, the Democratic, Outrival Europe, even in our Kings ! For thou wast monarch born.
Seite 137 - Theirs is a pure republic, wild, yet strong, A ''fierce democracie," where all are true To what themselves have voted — right or wrong — And to their laws denominated blue; If red, they might to Draco's code belong:) A vestal state, which power could not subdue, Nor promise win — like her own eagle's nest, Sacred — the San Marino of the West.
Seite 134 - Littlepage was as much astonished as I had been myself, at hearing that one so aged should have detected us through disguises that had deceived our nearest of kin. But the quiet penetration and close observation of the man had long been remarkable. As his good faith was of proof, however, neither felt any serious apprehension of being betrayed, as soon as he had a moment for reflection. CHAPTER IX. " He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility i And the devil did grin, for...