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... bosom so red , That each little loiterer seems to adore him . · The happiest bird of our spring , however , and one that rivals the European lark in my estimation , is the Boblincon , or Boblink , as he is commonly called . He arrives ...
... bosom so red , That each little loiterer seems to adore him . · The happiest bird of our spring , however , and one that rivals the European lark in my estimation , is the Boblincon , or Boblink , as he is commonly called . He arrives ...
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... bosom ; but when I , luckless urchin ! was doomed to be mewed up , during the livelong day , in that purgatory of boyhood - a schoolroom . It seemed as if the little varlet mocked at me , as he flew by in full song , and sought to taunt ...
... bosom ; but when I , luckless urchin ! was doomed to be mewed up , during the livelong day , in that purgatory of boyhood - a schoolroom . It seemed as if the little varlet mocked at me , as he flew by in full song , and sought to taunt ...
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... bosom with indistinct sensa- tions and nameless wishes . Amid the soft seductions of the season , I lapsed into a state of utter indolence , both of body and mind . Philosophy had lost its charms for me . Metaphysics- faugh ! I tried to ...
... bosom with indistinct sensa- tions and nameless wishes . Amid the soft seductions of the season , I lapsed into a state of utter indolence , both of body and mind . Philosophy had lost its charms for me . Metaphysics- faugh ! I tried to ...
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... bosom , and the two other volumes , which lay near , into my pockets , and hurried out of the house to my beloved woods . Here I remained all day beneath the trees , bewildered , be- witched ; devouring the contents of these delicious ...
... bosom , and the two other volumes , which lay near , into my pockets , and hurried out of the house to my beloved woods . Here I remained all day beneath the trees , bewildered , be- witched ; devouring the contents of these delicious ...
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... bosom . * In In this state of amorous delirium , I was strolling one morn- ing along a beautiful wild brook which I had discovered in a glen . There was one place where a small waterfall , leaping from among rocks into a natural basin ...
... bosom . * In In this state of amorous delirium , I was strolling one morn- ing along a beautiful wild brook which I had discovered in a glen . There was one place where a small waterfall , leaping from among rocks into a natural basin ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abencerrage Adalantado alcayde ancient arms bank beautiful became Bermudas bosom caravel castle cavalier character commander Communipaw companion Count of Angoulême court cried daughter delighted Don Fernando Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans everything eyes fairy fancy father favourite forest fortune Foulquerre France French gave Glencoe hand head heard heart honour horse Indians inhabitants island Julia kind knew ladies land length lived livres looked Louis XIV louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning neighbourhood never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed Phantom Island Pluto Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river Roost round sachem seated seemed Serafina Seven Cities sister Sleepy Hollow Somerville soon soul spirit story THOMAS CONSTABLE thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose Wolfert Acker worthy Xarisa young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 308 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Seite 41 - 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 21 - 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 94 - 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 26 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Seite 94 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Seite 22 - Pennsylvania epicures ; the rival in unlucky fame of the ortolan ! Wherever he goes, pop ! pop ! pop ! every rusty firelock in the country is blazing away. He sees his companions falling by thousands around him. " Does he take warning, and reform ? Alas, not he ! Incorrigible epicure ! again he wings his flight.
Seite 83 - 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 28 - ... of the poorest, I was assured he was one of the merriest and most popular personages in his native village. Compere Martin, as he was commonly called, was the factotum of the place, — sportsman, schoolmaster, and land-surveyor. He could sing, dance, and, above all, play on the fiddle, an invaluable accomplishment in an old French Creole village, for the inhabitants have a hereditary love for balls and fetes. If they work but little, they dance a great deal ; and a fiddle is the joy of their...
Seite 20 - Nature 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.