Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years SinceOliver D. Cooke & Sons., 1824 - 278 من الصفحات |
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... Madam L. It raised its broad , dignified front , with- out other decorations than the white rose , and the sweet brier , rearing their columns of beauty and fragrance , quite to the projection of the roof . In front , was a court of ...
... Madam L. It raised its broad , dignified front , with- out other decorations than the white rose , and the sweet brier , rearing their columns of beauty and fragrance , quite to the projection of the roof . In front , was a court of ...
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... Madam L- often wandered , and like our first mother , amused herself by removing whatever marred its beauty , and cherishing all that heightened its excellence . Her alert step , and animated aspect would scarcely permit the beholder to ...
... Madam L- often wandered , and like our first mother , amused herself by removing whatever marred its beauty , and cherishing all that heightened its excellence . Her alert step , and animated aspect would scarcely permit the beholder to ...
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... Madam L- had been subjected . Her blossoms had been riven from her , as a fig - tree shaketh its untimely figs before the blast . An affecting memorial of her feelings , at this peri- od , is still preserved , where , in a poetical form ...
... Madam L- had been subjected . Her blossoms had been riven from her , as a fig - tree shaketh its untimely figs before the blast . An affecting memorial of her feelings , at this peri- od , is still preserved , where , in a poetical form ...
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... Madam L-- was usually enlivened by the residence of some of her relations . The daughter of a beloved sister had been adopted by her , soon after the death of her three sons . She had taken a maternal pleasure in superintending the ...
... Madam L-- was usually enlivened by the residence of some of her relations . The daughter of a beloved sister had been adopted by her , soon after the death of her three sons . She had taken a maternal pleasure in superintending the ...
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... Madam L- comprised , at the present time , only herself , and two do- mestics . These were blacks , and descendants of ances- tors who had originally been slaves , before the voice of a wise and free people decreed the abolition of ...
... Madam L- comprised , at the present time , only herself , and two do- mestics . These were blacks , and descendants of ances- tors who had originally been slaves , before the voice of a wise and free people decreed the abolition of ...
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الصفحة 15 - November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The short'ning winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant...
الصفحة 24 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
الصفحة 177 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant.
الصفحة 257 - ... THEY sin who tell us Love can die ; With life all other passions fly — All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth.
الصفحة 236 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
الصفحة 276 - But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
الصفحة 153 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
الصفحة 95 - And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.