The Poetry and History of Wyoming: Containing Campbelle's Gertrude, and the History of Wyoming, from Its Discovery to the Beginning of the Present CenturyM. H. Newman, 1844 - 398 páginas |
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... afterward he received a solid and flattering token of the royal approbation of his poem of the Pleasures of Hope in a pension of 2001. What made this mark of royal favor the more grat- ifying was , that it was granted for no political ...
... afterward he received a solid and flattering token of the royal approbation of his poem of the Pleasures of Hope in a pension of 2001. What made this mark of royal favor the more grat- ifying was , that it was granted for no political ...
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... afterward the Six Nations , already among them , within the territory now forming both New - Jersey and Pennsylvania . But these were not large , and the Lenelenoppes , or Original Peo- ple , as the name denotes , composed the great ma ...
... afterward the Six Nations , already among them , within the territory now forming both New - Jersey and Pennsylvania . But these were not large , and the Lenelenoppes , or Original Peo- ple , as the name denotes , composed the great ma ...
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... afterwards joined by their brethren in the Delaware country . They were certainly a people of so much consideration as to be addressed as " BROTHERS " by the Aquanuschioni . none better upon such a subject , in a letter 84 HISTORY OF ...
... afterwards joined by their brethren in the Delaware country . They were certainly a people of so much consideration as to be addressed as " BROTHERS " by the Aquanuschioni . none better upon such a subject , in a letter 84 HISTORY OF ...
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... afterward removed from the dispu- ted territory - some few of them to Shamokin , † * Canassateego was famous as an orator and counsellor among the On . ondagas , and his counsels and memory were cherished by the people of the Six ...
... afterward removed from the dispu- ted territory - some few of them to Shamokin , † * Canassateego was famous as an orator and counsellor among the On . ondagas , and his counsels and memory were cherished by the people of the Six ...
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... afterward . In 1742 , their great founder and apostle , Count Zinzendorf , visited America , to look after their infant missions . He arrived at Bethlehem , near the Forks of the Dela- ware , in the following year . Affecting represen ...
... afterward . In 1742 , their great founder and apostle , Count Zinzendorf , visited America , to look after their infant missions . He arrived at Bethlehem , near the Forks of the Dela- ware , in the following year . Affecting represen ...
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Página 367 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Página 382 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully...
Página 381 - But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
Página 382 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was* ray love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 89 - But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Página 49 - And by my side, in battle true, A thousand warriors drew the shaft? Ah ! there in desolation cold The desert serpent dwells alone, Where grass o'ergrows each mouldering bone, And stones themselves to ruin grown, Like me, are death-like old : Then seek we not their camp — for there The silence dwells of my despair.
Página 8 - The orison repeated in his arms, For God to bless her sire and all mankind; The book, the bosom on his knee reclined, Or how sweet fairy-lore he heard her con, (The playmate ere the teacher of her mind): All uncompanion'd else her heart had gone Till now, in Gertrude's eyes, their ninth blue summer shone.
Página 380 - ... the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 13 - As monumental bronze unchanged his look: A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook : Train'd, from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook Impassive — fearing but the shame of fear— A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.
Página 380 - Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and, with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject...