The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn. The Pamphleteer - Página 397editado por - 1815Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1857 - 844 páginas
...gives us, and they must have melted him into tears. They are these : — " The wind roared and the rain fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and...Chorus — Let us pity the white man; no mother has he to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn ! " his. Convicted of an attempt to give freedom to... | |
| Elizabeth Starling - 1858 - 474 páginas
...discovered that he himself was the subject of it. It said, in a strain of affecting simplicity, — 'The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...— Let us pity the white man, no mother has he,' &e. Our traveller was much affected, and next morning could not depart without requesting his landlady's... | |
| Johann Gerhard Tiarks - 1859 - 460 páginas
...work, i(ï)'fai)re fort mid) mit biefec Arbeit ju befdjoftigeh. "; ..; -''They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore ; for...Chorus. — Let us pity the white man: no mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn/ Trifling as these events may appear to the reader, they... | |
| A. L. O. E. - 1859 - 338 páginas
...thus: "The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, laint and weary, came and snt nnder our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn."—C/.orui—"Let us pity the white man; no mother has he," &o. Our readprs will know that we... | |
| Mungo Park - 1860 - 434 páginas
...; in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore ; for...mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn." Choi-us. — " Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he," etc. etc. Trifling as this recital may... | |
| Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1860 - 198 páginas
...which they continued to employ themselves a great part of the night. They lightened their labor with songs, one of which was composed extempore, for I...no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his com. Ckoriu. — Let us pity the white man, — no mother It is quite possible, as has been remarked... | |
| Francis Barton Gummere - 1901 - 528 páginas
...the subject of it. It was sung by one of the young women, the rest joining in a sort of chorus. . . . The words, literally translated, were these : ' The...Chorus: Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he,' etc." Here the young woman seems to lead the chorus and suggest its words, while in the more primitive... | |
| Irene Tanner Myers - 1901 - 172 páginas
...Africa, p. 45 ; cf. Burton, A Mission to Gelele, i, pp 46, 51, 171, 21377 A Study in Epic Development The winds roared and the rains fell ; The poor white...mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.' Moreover, certain of the songs which are carried in the memories of the wandering minstrels seem to... | |
| Irene Tanner Myers - 1901 - 168 páginas
...310 ff. 3 Cited by Jones, Africa, p. 45 ; cf. Burton, A Mission to Gelele, i, PP 46, 51, 171, 213. The winds roared and the rains fell ; The poor white...no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.1 Moreover, certain of the songs which are carried in the memories of the wandering minstrels... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 páginas
...astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton, in which they continued to employ themselves a great part of the night. They lightened their labor...(Chorus). Let us pity the white man — no mother has he to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn." Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader,... | |
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