Wyandotté: Or, the Hutted Knoll ; A TaleGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 308 páginas |
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... rocks that here rose to the surface , and through which the little river found its passage . The part which might be termed the keystone of the dam was only twenty yards wide , and immediately below it the rocks fell away rapidly ...
... rocks that here rose to the surface , and through which the little river found its passage . The part which might be termed the keystone of the dam was only twenty yards wide , and immediately below it the rocks fell away rapidly ...
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... Rock , " beneath a steep wooded bank , and quite near to the place where the Susquehannah glanced out of the lake , in a swift current , beneath a high - arched tracery of branches that were not yet clothed with leaves . 66 Here the ...
... Rock , " beneath a steep wooded bank , and quite near to the place where the Susquehannah glanced out of the lake , in a swift current , beneath a high - arched tracery of branches that were not yet clothed with leaves . 66 Here the ...
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... rocks began to appear in the bed of the river , and that the growth of the timber indicated fertility and a generous soil . When the boat stopped , the little stream came brawling down a ragged declivity , and a mill , one so arranged ...
... rocks began to appear in the bed of the river , and that the growth of the timber indicated fertility and a generous soil . When the boat stopped , the little stream came brawling down a ragged declivity , and a mill , one so arranged ...
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... rocks , where the stream began to tumble downward into the valley below . A year had done a vast deal for the place . The few stumps and stubs which had dis- figured the basin when it was first laid bare , had all been drawn by oxen ...
... rocks , where the stream began to tumble downward into the valley below . A year had done a vast deal for the place . The few stumps and stubs which had dis- figured the basin when it was first laid bare , had all been drawn by oxen ...
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... rock of some forty feet in perpendicular height , having a summit of about an acre of level land , and falling off on its three sides , to the east and west precipitously ; to the south quite gently and with regu- larity . It was this ...
... rock of some forty feet in perpendicular height , having a summit of about an acre of level land , and falling off on its three sides , to the east and west precipitously ; to the south quite gently and with regu- larity . It was this ...
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Página 294 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Página 126 - High sight it is and haughty, while They dive into the deep defile ; Beneath the caverned cliff they fall, Beneath the castle's airy wall. By rock, by oak, by hawthorn -tree, Troop after troop are disappearing ; Troop after troop their banners rearing Upon the eastern bank you see.
Página 279 - Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat. All shall come back, each tie Of pure affection shall be knit again ; Alone shall Evil die, And Sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign. And then shall I behold Him, by whose kind paternal side I sprung, And her, who, still and cold, Fills the next grave — the beautiful and young.
Página 308 - ... images of guilt and woe, they so clear our judgment by profound analysis, •while they move our hearts by terror or compassion, that we learn to detect and stifle in ourselves the evil thought which we see gradually unfolding itself into the guilty deed.
Página 279 - All that of good and fair Has gone into thy womb from earliest time, Shall then come forth to wear The glory and the beauty of its prime. They have not perished — no ! Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat.
Página 307 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.