Tales of the Garden of KosciuskoWest & Trow, 1834 - 216 páginas |
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... mind I spent several hours , occasionally glancing on the pages of an old magazine I had taken to amuse myself in this retreat . As I pored over it , my eye caught a page containing some sketches of the genius and peculiarities of ...
... mind I spent several hours , occasionally glancing on the pages of an old magazine I had taken to amuse myself in this retreat . As I pored over it , my eye caught a page containing some sketches of the genius and peculiarities of ...
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... mind , than I resolved to try the experiment of recruiting myself by writing a series of short tales , and brief sketches , and before I left the garden , my subjects were all noted down . These tales are mostly founded on incidents in ...
... mind , than I resolved to try the experiment of recruiting myself by writing a series of short tales , and brief sketches , and before I left the garden , my subjects were all noted down . These tales are mostly founded on incidents in ...
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... mind . There should be some indulgence given to the imagi- nation ; some revelling in creations of our own : or why should God have given us the power of creating in the manner he has ? Nor is it always the labor which most exhausts the ...
... mind . There should be some indulgence given to the imagi- nation ; some revelling in creations of our own : or why should God have given us the power of creating in the manner he has ? Nor is it always the labor which most exhausts the ...
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... mind a few days since , as I was admiring the lights and shadows as they fell upon and between the Ionic columns of the finely proportioned Grecian build- ing , on the east side of the Park , near the City Hall . As I stood gazing on ...
... mind a few days since , as I was admiring the lights and shadows as they fell upon and between the Ionic columns of the finely proportioned Grecian build- ing , on the east side of the Park , near the City Hall . As I stood gazing on ...
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... mind more distinctly than any other . The officer belonged to the American army , which in the autumn of 1776 was at West Chester . He was acting as commissary to the troops of the Massachusetts line , and when the stock of provisions ...
... mind more distinctly than any other . The officer belonged to the American army , which in the autumn of 1776 was at West Chester . He was acting as commissary to the troops of the Massachusetts line , and when the stock of provisions ...
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Tales of the Garden of Kosciusko Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo) Knapp No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2012 |
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Acllahua acquainted arms army arrived Atahualpa beauty Bill Jones boat brave brig cacique Cæsar called Capt captain Captain Newman child Colonel Elliot commissary Coya Mama Cudjo Cusco Dalrymple Danforth daughter Deacon death Diego Don Martin door duty emperor enemy eyes father fell garden gave gentleman Gilman give hand Harry heard heart honor horse hour Huasca HUAYNA CAPAC husband Inca Indians inquired instantly island Julius Julius Cæsar knew lived look Lucy master miles mind Monegan morning mother mountains Neddy never night Nuna Oakum officer once passed Peru Peruvian Pizarro prison Quito reached replied sailors Sayri Tupac seemed seen Seka sent ship Sir John solemn soon soul Spaniards spirit story stranger suffer taken thing thought tion told took town traveller Tupac Amaru whole wife William Hutchins wounded young
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Página 93 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 23 - ... melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
Página 105 - And weepings heard where only joy has been ; When by his children borne, and from his door Slowly departing to return no more, He rests in holy earth with them that went before. And such is Human Life ; so gliding on, It glimmers like a meteor, and is gone...
Página 176 - Thus, near the gates conferring as they drew, Argus, the dog, his ancient master knew: He not unconscious of the voice and tread, Lifts to the sound his ear, and rears his head; Bred by Ulysses, nourish'd at his board, But, ah!
Página 178 - Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away.
Página 189 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 148 - What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns, And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His...
Página 177 - He knew his lord; he knew and strove to meet; In vain he strove to crawl and kiss his feet; Yet (all he could) his tail, his ears, his eyes, Salute his master, and confess his joys.
Página 177 - Ulysses' gate? His bulk and beauty speak no vulgar praise: If, as he seems, he was in better days, Some care his age deserves; or was he prized For worthless beauty? therefore now despised; Such dogs and men there are, mere things of state; And always cherish'd by their friends, the great.
Página 177 - Not Argus so, (Eumaeus thus rejoin'd,) But served a master of a nobler kind, Who never, never shall behold him more ! Long, long since perish'd on a distant shore ! Oh had you seen him, vigorous, bold, and young, Swift as a stag, and as a lion strong : Him no fell savage on the plain withstood, None...