An Eastern Tour at Home.D McKay, 1889 - 286 من الصفحات |
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... square tower of the Produce Exchange , at the foot of Broadway . Upon these Treasury steps are convened public meetings when grave subjects stir the financial centre or the politi- cians desire to invoke Wall Street aid in important ...
... square tower of the Produce Exchange , at the foot of Broadway . Upon these Treasury steps are convened public meetings when grave subjects stir the financial centre or the politi- cians desire to invoke Wall Street aid in important ...
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... square tower , part of the ground it stands upon having been the site of the house where Robert Fulton lived and died . Talleyrand once lived on Bowling Green , and the leaden statue of King George III . , which was there at the opening ...
... square tower , part of the ground it stands upon having been the site of the house where Robert Fulton lived and died . Talleyrand once lived on Bowling Green , and the leaden statue of King George III . , which was there at the opening ...
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... square miles , the city covers altogether forty- one square miles , its boundary going about four miles east- ward from the Hudson to a picturesque little stream known as Bronx River , which separates New York from West- chester county ...
... square miles , the city covers altogether forty- one square miles , its boundary going about four miles east- ward from the Hudson to a picturesque little stream known as Bronx River , which separates New York from West- chester county ...
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... Square , " where Franklin's statue adorns the locality , around which a perpetual war of printer's ink rages , for these rival newspapers are always quarrelling about something . The tall and narrow Tribune building has its clock ...
... Square , " where Franklin's statue adorns the locality , around which a perpetual war of printer's ink rages , for these rival newspapers are always quarrelling about something . The tall and narrow Tribune building has its clock ...
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... SQUARE . Returning to Broadway and renewing the northward walk , " Stewart's up - town store , " which was his great ... Square , a pretty park of about four acres , oval in shape , with lawns and shrubbery , and adorned by statues of ...
... SQUARE . Returning to Broadway and renewing the northward walk , " Stewart's up - town store , " which was his great ... Square , a pretty park of about four acres , oval in shape , with lawns and shrubbery , and adorned by statues of ...
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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.