History of Texas: From Its Discovery and Settlement, with a Description of Its Principal Cities and Counties, and the Agricultural, Mineral, and Material Resources of the StateUnited States publishing Company, 1874 - 591 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alamo annexation arms arrived artillery attack Austin battle Bexar Bowie brave Brazos Burleson camp cannon Capt Captain captured cause cavalry citizens Coahuila Colonel Fannin Colorado Comanches command commander-in-chief commenced Congress Constitution Constitution of 1824 Copano Council dollars duty Edwin Waller enemy exclaimed Fannin fight Filisola fire force friends frontier gallant Galveston Goliad Gonzales governor heart honor hope horses Houston hundred Indians Jones Rivers Jonesborough killed Lamar land liberty March Matamoras ment Mexican army Mexico miles morning Nacogdoches nation never night o'clock officers Orleans party prairie present President prisoners Republic Republic of Texas retreat returned river Rusk Sam Houston San Antonio San Felipe San Jacinto Santa Anna says Secretary Secretary of War sent shot Smith soldiers soon surrender Texans tion Tom Ochiltree took Travis treaty troops United Urrea Velasco volunteers Washington wounded Yoakum Zavala
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 323 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Seite 586 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Seite 472 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Seite 585 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Seite vi - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite viii - With tears of thoughtful gratitude. My thoughts are with the Dead; with them I live in long-past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind. My hopes are with the Dead; anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all Futurity; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.
Seite vii - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Seite 423 - Sweep over with their shadows, and, beneath, The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye ; Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase The sunny ridges. Breezes of the south...
Seite 161 - Anna, who, having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.
Seite 586 - Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise.