An Eastern Tour at Home.D McKay, 1889 - 286 من الصفحات |
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... pleasant sites . Somerton is passed and the Neshaminy crossed , its little waterfall just above the railway - bridge being the momentary centre of an attractive landscape , the narrow lake above having on either hand a sloping grove ...
... pleasant sites . Somerton is passed and the Neshaminy crossed , its little waterfall just above the railway - bridge being the momentary centre of an attractive landscape , the narrow lake above having on either hand a sloping grove ...
الصفحة 12
... pleasant rural retreat , but now also absorbed by railway terminals . Behind Jersey City rises the long ridge of Bergen Hill , whose outcroppings above Weehawken come forward to the Hudson River bank in the grand escarpment of the ...
... pleasant rural retreat , but now also absorbed by railway terminals . Behind Jersey City rises the long ridge of Bergen Hill , whose outcroppings above Weehawken come forward to the Hudson River bank in the grand escarpment of the ...
الصفحة 20
... pleasant place and well kept , and into the spacious rotunda of its old Castle Clinton are brought the immigrants- sometimes thirty thousand in a single week — and its occu- pants overflow the entire neighborhood . It is wonderful to ...
... pleasant place and well kept , and into the spacious rotunda of its old Castle Clinton are brought the immigrants- sometimes thirty thousand in a single week — and its occu- pants overflow the entire neighborhood . It is wonderful to ...
الصفحة 41
... pleasant places of New York . Standing here , eastward at Thirty - second Street is seen the enormous pile of build- ings forming Stewart's Working Girls ' Home , constructed around a spacious courtyard . At Thirty - fourth Street ...
... pleasant places of New York . Standing here , eastward at Thirty - second Street is seen the enormous pile of build- ings forming Stewart's Working Girls ' Home , constructed around a spacious courtyard . At Thirty - fourth Street ...
الصفحة 51
... pleasant days many thousands gather to listen to the music . To the westward are broad green surfaces , including a spacious ball - ground , which give a tranquil landscape . Looking northward through the avenue of elms upon the Mall ...
... pleasant days many thousands gather to listen to the music . To the westward are broad green surfaces , including a spacious ball - ground , which give a tranquil landscape . Looking northward through the avenue of elms upon the Mall ...
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acres adjacent afterward ancient attractive Beach beautiful border Boston bridge broad Broadway Brooklyn brownstone building built Cape Ann Casco Bay Castine Charles River charming chief church coast colony Coney Island Connecticut Cotton Mather cross distant East River eastern eastward edge elevated England enormous famous Fifth Avenue forests front governor grand granite green Hall harbor Harlem River hills houses Hudson huge hundred feet Indian Isles of Shoals Islesboro Kittery lakes land lived Long Island Long Island Sound magnificent Manhattan Massachusetts miles million Mount Desert mountains Nahant narrow Newport northward noted ocean Park passing peninsula Penobscot Bay picturesque Pilgrims pleasant Plymouth Puritan railway region resort rising rocks rocky rows Salem sand settlement Shawmut peninsula shore side slopes southward splendid spreading stands State-House stone Street stretching suburbs summer surface tower town trees valley Vanderbilt village 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 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.