An Eastern Tour at Home.D McKay, 1889 - 286 من الصفحات |
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... original serial publication of the articles in the Public Ledger , and the author is widely known through his other contributions to this class of descriptive literature . Still , as the Publisher prefers an introduction , the ...
... original serial publication of the articles in the Public Ledger , and the author is widely known through his other contributions to this class of descriptive literature . Still , as the Publisher prefers an introduction , the ...
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... original defender of the town . The great Produce Exchange tower and the tall Washington Building , one on either side of the Park , stand up as sentinels at the lower end of Broadway , while behind . them stretch far to the northward ...
... original defender of the town . The great Produce Exchange tower and the tall Washington Building , one on either side of the Park , stand up as sentinels at the lower end of Broadway , while behind . them stretch far to the northward ...
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... original " Potter's Field , " where for many years the outcast and the unknown were buried and over a hundred thousand bodies were interred . The city spread beyond this cemetery when it was determined to make the place a park , and ...
... original " Potter's Field , " where for many years the outcast and the unknown were buried and over a hundred thousand bodies were interred . The city spread beyond this cemetery when it was determined to make the place a park , and ...
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... original Astor was a poor German peasant - boy who came from the village of Waldorf , near Heidelberg , to London , and prior to 1783 worked there for his brother making musical instruments . In that year , being about twenty years old ...
... original Astor was a poor German peasant - boy who came from the village of Waldorf , near Heidelberg , to London , and prior to 1783 worked there for his brother making musical instruments . In that year , being about twenty years old ...
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... original home of the Vanderbilts , and is now occupied by one of the old commodore's younger grandsons , Frederick . The fortune of the Vanderbilt family , the greatest yet accumu- lated in America , represents the financially ...
... original home of the Vanderbilts , and is now occupied by one of the old commodore's younger grandsons , Frederick . The fortune of the Vanderbilt family , the greatest yet accumu- lated in America , represents the financially ...
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acres adjacent afterward ancient Astor attractive banks Beach beautiful Berkshire Hills border Boston bridge broad Broadway Brooklyn brownstone buildings built Cape Cape Ann charming chief church coast colony Coney Island Connecticut Connecticut River cross distant East River EASTERN TOUR eastward edge elevated England enormous famous Fifth Avenue front grand granite green Hall harbor Harlem River hills houses Hudson Hudson River huge hundred feet Indian Isles of Shoals Islesboro Jersey lakes land Long Island Long Island Sound magnificent Manhattan Massachusetts miles million mills Mount mountains Narragansett Bay narrow Newport northward noted ocean Park pass peninsula Penobscot Penobscot Bay picturesque Pilgrims pleasant Puritan railway region rising rocks rocky rows settlement shore side slopes southward splendid spread square stands Staten Island stone Street stretching suburbs surface thousand dollars tower town trees valley Vanderbilt village West western westward winding York
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الصفحة 122 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
الصفحة 129 - THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies...
الصفحة 245 - Build me straight, O worthy Master, Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
الصفحة 238 - The mariner remembers when a child, On his first voyage, he saw it fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night, Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light...
الصفحة 254 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
الصفحة 129 - A h ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony...
الصفحة 170 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
الصفحة 188 - The buildings are handsome, joyning one to the other as in London; with many large streets, most of them paved with pebble stone. In the high street towards the Common, there are fair buildings, some of stone ; and, at the east end of the [2] town, one amongst the rest, built by the shore by Mr.
الصفحة 140 - The voice of Massachusetts! Of her free sons and daughters, Deep calling unto deep aloud, the sound of many waters! Against the burden of that voice what tyrant power shall stand? No fetters in the Bay State!
الصفحة 140 - We wash our hands forever of your sin and shame and curse. A voice from lips whereon the coal from Freedom's shrine hath been, Thrilled, as but yesterday, the hearts of Berkshire's mountain men : The echoes of that solemn voice are sadly lingering still In all our sunny valleys, on every wind-swept hill.