Homes of American Authors: Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers ...G. P. Putnam and Company, 1853 - 366 頁 |
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... scenery , local character and amusements , anecdotes of adventure , and sketches of the grander pheno- mena of winds and floods . In one place he tells us of an earthquake he experienced , in another of a fearful tempest , next of the ...
... scenery , local character and amusements , anecdotes of adventure , and sketches of the grander pheno- mena of winds and floods . In one place he tells us of an earthquake he experienced , in another of a fearful tempest , next of the ...
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... scenery , manners , and personal character , and , with his previous writings , they commended him to the notice of President Madison , who became his warm friend , and secured for him , on the close of the war with England , the ...
... scenery , manners , and personal character , and , with his previous writings , they commended him to the notice of President Madison , who became his warm friend , and secured for him , on the close of the war with England , the ...
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... scenery — the river being occasionally intercepted by project- ing points and graceful curves , that for a little space hide its Looking to the southwest and west , the eye rests on the opposite shores of the river , which rise at first ...
... scenery — the river being occasionally intercepted by project- ing points and graceful curves , that for a little space hide its Looking to the southwest and west , the eye rests on the opposite shores of the river , which rise at first ...
第 30 頁
... scenery . Here , surrounded by a growing family of grandchildren , Mr. Paulding has resided the last ten years , during which time he has visited the city but once , to attend the marriage of a relation . He has retired from the world ...
... scenery . Here , surrounded by a growing family of grandchildren , Mr. Paulding has resided the last ten years , during which time he has visited the city but once , to attend the marriage of a relation . He has retired from the world ...
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... scenery , touched a chord in the heart which responds to all that is generous in sympathy and noble in association . If we regard Irving with national pride and affection , it is partly on account of his cosmopolitan tone of mind - a ...
... scenery , touched a chord in the heart which responds to all that is generous in sympathy and noble in association . If we regard Irving with national pride and affection , it is partly on account of his cosmopolitan tone of mind - a ...
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第 337 頁 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
第 102 頁 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
第 227 頁 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
第 228 頁 - Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
第 273 頁 - Halfway up the stairs it stands, And points and beckons with its hands From its case of massive oak, Like a monk, who, under his cloak, Crosses himself, and sighs, alas ' With sorrowful voice to all who pass, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
第 338 頁 - The snow that husheth all, Darling, the merciful Father Alone can make it fall ! " Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her; And she, kissing back, could not know That my kiss was given to her sister, Folded close under deepening snow.
第 302 頁 - They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea ; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the...
第 45 頁 - simmer it well : Sweeten jusv, to your own private liking, then strain, That only the finest and clearest remain : Let it stand out of doors till a soul it receives From the warm lazy sun loitering down through green leaves: And you'll find a choice nature, not wholly deserving A name either English or Yankee — just Irving.
第 254 頁 - Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country, dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt. Up and down these echoing stairs, Heavy with the weight of cares, Sounded his majestic tread ; Yes, within this very room Sat he in those hours of gloom, Weary both in heart and head.
第 346 頁 - A-raspin' on the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat Some doubtfle o' the sekle, His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle.