Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost and Other PapersBernhard Tauchnitz, 1855 - 386 pages |
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... story , however , is stoutly contradicted by an old Dutch matter - of - fact tradition , which declares that the spring in question was smuggled over from Holland in a churn , by Femmetie Van Blarcom , wife of Goosen Garret Van Blarcom ...
... story , however , is stoutly contradicted by an old Dutch matter - of - fact tradition , which declares that the spring in question was smuggled over from Holland in a churn , by Femmetie Van Blarcom , wife of Goosen Garret Van Blarcom ...
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... story ; the former fought , or rather marauded , under the American , the latter under the British banner . In the zeal of service , both were apt to make blunders , and confound the property of friend and foe . Neither of them , in the ...
... story ; the former fought , or rather marauded , under the American , the latter under the British banner . In the zeal of service , both were apt to make blunders , and confound the property of friend and foe . Neither of them , in the ...
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... story . When the belligerent feeling was strong upon Jacob , he would take down his gun , sally forth alone , and prowl along shore , dodging behind rocks and trees , watching for hours together any ship or galley at anchor or becalmed ...
... story . When the belligerent feeling was strong upon Jacob , he would take down his gun , sally forth alone , and prowl along shore , dodging behind rocks and trees , watching for hours together any ship or galley at anchor or becalmed ...
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... story went that one of the victims of Jacob Van Tassel's great goose - gun had been buried there in unconsecrated ground . Even the Tappan Sea in front was said to be haunted . Often in the still twilight of a summer even- ing , when ...
... story went that one of the victims of Jacob Van Tassel's great goose - gun had been buried there in unconsecrated ground . Even the Tappan Sea in front was said to be haunted . Often in the still twilight of a summer even- ing , when ...
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... stories spun forth to the humming accompaniment of the wheel . The delighted historian pursued his explorations far into the foldings of the hills , where the Pocantico winds its wizard stream among the mazes of its old Indian haunts ...
... stories spun forth to the humming accompaniment of the wheel . The delighted historian pursued his explorations far into the foldings of the hills , where the Pocantico winds its wizard stream among the mazes of its old Indian haunts ...
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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.