Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost and Other PapersBernhard Tauchnitz, 1855 - 386 pages |
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... song , or O - sing - song ; in token of its being a great market- town where anything may be had for a mere song . Its present melodious alteration to Sing - Sing is said to have been made in compliment to a Yankee singing - master ...
... song , or O - sing - song ; in token of its being a great market- town where anything may be had for a mere song . Its present melodious alteration to Sing - Sing is said to have been made in compliment to a Yankee singing - master ...
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... the day ; but at these still hours , his song was more remarked . He sat on a leafless tree , just before the window , and warbled forth his notes , few and simple , but singularly sweet , THE BIRDS OF SPRING . 23 The Birds of Spring,
... the day ; but at these still hours , his song was more remarked . He sat on a leafless tree , just before the window , and warbled forth his notes , few and simple , but singularly sweet , THE BIRDS OF SPRING . 23 The Birds of Spring,
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... song and his service freely are ours , And all that he asks is , in summer a shelter . The ploughman is pleased when he gleans in his train , Now searching the furrows , now mounting to cheer him ; The gard'ner delights in his simple ...
... song and his service freely are ours , And all that he asks is , in summer a shelter . The ploughman is pleased when he gleans in his train , Now searching the furrows , now mounting to cheer him ; The gard'ner delights in his simple ...
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... song as soon as he gets upon the wing , and flutters tremulously down to the earth , as if overcome with ecstasy at his own music . Sometimes he is in pursuit of his paramour ; always in full song , as if he would win her by his melody ...
... song as soon as he gets upon the wing , and flutters tremulously down to the earth , as if overcome with ecstasy at his own music . Sometimes he is in pursuit of his paramour ; always in full song , as if he would win her by his melody ...
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... song , and taste , and sensibility , and refinement . While this lasted , he was sacred from injury ; the very school- boy would not fling a stone at him , and the merest rustic would pause to listen to his strain . But mark the ...
... song , and taste , and sensibility , and refinement . While this lasted , he was sacred from injury ; the very school- boy would not fling a stone at him , and the merest rustic would pause to listen to his strain . But mark the ...
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Abencerrage Adalantado alcayde ancient arms bank beautiful became Bermudas birds bosom caravel castle cavalier Chronicles of Wolfert's commander Communipaw Count of Angoulême court cried daughter delighted Don Fernando Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans everything eyes fairy fancy father favourite felt forest fortune France French gave Glencoe hand heard heart honour horse Indians inhabitants island Julia kind king ladies land length livres looked Louis XIV louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed Phantom Island Pluto Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river round royal sachem seated seemed Serafina Seven Cities shore sister Sleepy Hollow Somers Somerville song soon spirit story thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose Wolfert Acker Wolfert's Roost Xarisa young youth
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Page 106 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 106 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 342 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 94 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 334 - And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 27 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 29 - The rice swamps of the south invite him. He gorges himself among them almost to bursting; he can scarcely fly for corpulency. He has once more changed his name, and is now the famous rice-bird of the Carolinas. Last stage of his career: behold him spitted, with dozens of his corpulent companions, and served up, a vaunted dish, on the table of some southern gastronome.
Page 46 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 30 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Page 26 - Nature is in all her freshness and fragrance: "the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.