An Eastern Tour at Home.D McKay, 1889 - 286 من الصفحات |
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... front of Bayonne is got the first glimpse of New York harbor . The great Liberty statue on Bedloe's Island , with uplifted torch , is in full view , while behind the Gallic goddess rises the Brook- lyn bridge , throwing its distant span ...
... front of Bayonne is got the first glimpse of New York harbor . The great Liberty statue on Bedloe's Island , with uplifted torch , is in full view , while behind the Gallic goddess rises the Brook- lyn bridge , throwing its distant span ...
الصفحة 11
... front for miles is occupied by railway terminals , making successions of docks , ferry- houses , and grain - elevators . Here come in all the lines from the West excepting the New York Central , and from these dépôts and wharves their ...
... front for miles is occupied by railway terminals , making successions of docks , ferry- houses , and grain - elevators . Here come in all the lines from the West excepting the New York Central , and from these dépôts and wharves their ...
الصفحة 12
... front rises in a bluff shore crowned by a grove of trees and running up into a low mound , whereon is the Stevens Castle . " This was the home of Edwin A. Ste- vens , one of the pioneer railway princes of New Jersey , and a projector of ...
... front rises in a bluff shore crowned by a grove of trees and running up into a low mound , whereon is the Stevens Castle . " This was the home of Edwin A. Ste- vens , one of the pioneer railway princes of New Jersey , and a projector of ...
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... fronts the ferry . It is muddy , and almost impassable from the jam of vehicles of all kinds trying to move in ... front of New York from Chambers to Canal Street , with a wide strip running out to Broadway . Her heirs sold this to ...
... fronts the ferry . It is muddy , and almost impassable from the jam of vehicles of all kinds trying to move in ... front of New York from Chambers to Canal Street , with a wide strip running out to Broadway . Her heirs sold this to ...
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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 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 114 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She...
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 149 - Albany ; — a project, which every one knows, — who knows the simplest rules in arithmetic, — to be impracticable but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts; and which, if practicable, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the Moon.
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. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
الصفحة 238 - Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on for evermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light...
الصفحة 169 - This man was, indeed, of a particular humour, and he would never join himself to any of our churches, giving this reason for it: "I came from England, because I did not like the lord-bishops; but I can't join with you, because I would not be under the lord-brethren.
الصفحة 246 - Maine ! But many a keel shall seaward turn, And many a sail outstand, When, tall and white, the Dead Ship looms Against the dusk of land.