| Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1917 - 872 Seiten
...the North American continent (see FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR), Acadia was the home of peace-loving French farmers — "Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands." During Queen Anne's War (1697-1713), Port Royal, the seat of the Acadian government, surrendered to... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 Seiten
...ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like...lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, I0 Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven? Waste are those pleasant farms,... | |
| 1918 - 438 Seiten
...shine like the Holy One's face upon Tabor. Och är ej detta äkta Tegnérskt bildspräk: — — — the home of Acadian farmers, — Men whose lives glided...shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven? Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snoivflakes; White as the snow were his locks,... | |
| William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920 - 668 Seiten
...ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like...thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers— 10 Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth, but... | |
| Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1920 - 568 Seiten
...PBOVINCES The French population of the territory by the sea, the Acadians, are described by the poet as : Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the...shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven. History does not bear out this idyll; but whatever their faults, at least the Acadians had the negative... | |
| William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 Seiten
...ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like...thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers — "1 Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth,... | |
| Longfellow - 1922 - 722 Seiten
...hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the hunts. man? Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadia.n...water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflectlag an image of heaven? Waste are those pleasant farnis, and the farmers forever departed! Scattered... | |
| Henry Copp Edgar - 1922 - 472 Seiten
...third syllable, beginning with the first syllable of each line. Example: This is the f6rest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like...he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman? —LONGFELLOW, Evangeline. (d) Anapestic meter, in which the accents fall on every third syllable,... | |
| William Thomson - 1923 - 582 Seiten
...believe in af-fection that hopes and endures and is patient. |ii III ii III iii I ii ii I ii III ii ii ^ Leaped like the roe when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman. I ii ii I ii i II ii I i I ii ii I ii III ii ii ^ Men whose lives glided on like rivers that wa-ter... | |
| Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1869 - 252 Seiten
...introduces us to the Village of Grand Pre, in September, 1755: — " This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that [beneath it Leaped like...? Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of the Acadian [farmers — Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by... | |
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