Once Upon a Time in ConnecticutHoughton Mifflin Company, 1916 - 140 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 115 - I am against an adjournment. The day of Judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment : if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
الصفحة 139 - As he trod the last stage; as he trod the last stage. And Britons will shudder at gallant Hale's blood, As his words do presage, as his words do presage. "Thou pale king of terrors, thou life's gloomy foe, Go frighten the slave, go frighten the slave; Tell tyrants, to you, their allegiance they owe. No fears for the brave; no fears for the brave.
الصفحة 124 - To drum-beat and heart-beat, A soldier marches by: There is color in his cheek, There is courage in his eye — Yet to drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp. He hears the rustling flag, And the armed sentry's tramp ; And the starlight and moonlight His silent wanderings lamp.
الصفحة 136 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
الصفحة 97 - Aurelius, and that they had cut the nose off, clipt the laurels that were wreathed round his head, and drove a musket Bullet part of the way through his Head, and otherwise disfigured it, and that it was carried to Moore's tavern, adjoining Fort Washington, on New York Island, in order to be fixed on a Spike on the Truck of that Flagstaff as soon...
الصفحة 18 - This heart (laying his hand upon his breast) is not mine, but yours ; I have no men ; they are all yours ; command me any difficult thing, I will do it; I will not believe any Indians' words against the English; if any man shall kill an Englishman, I will put him to death, were he never so dear to me.
الصفحة 20 - Brothers, we must be one as the English are, or we shall soon all be destroyed. You know our fathers had plenty of deer and skins, and our plains "were full of deer and of turkeys, and our coves and rivers were full of foh.
الصفحة 139 - T was there the base hirelings, in royal array, His cause did deride ; his cause did deride. Five minutes were given, short moments, no more, For him to repent ; for him to repent. He prayed for his mother, he asked not another, To Heaven he went ; to Heaven he went. The faith of a martyr the tragedy showed, As he trod the last stage ; as he trod the last stage.
الصفحة 136 - On the morning of his execution," continued the officer, "my station was near the fatal spot, and I requested the Provost Marshal to permit the prisoner to sit in my marquee, while he was making the necessary preparations. Captain Hale entered; he was calm, and bore himself with gentle dignity, in the consciousness of rectitude and high intentions. He asked for writing materials, which I furnished him; he wrote two letters, one to his mother and one to a brother officer.
الصفحة 111 - T was on a May-day of the far old year Seventeen hundred eighty, that there fell Over the bloom and sweet life of the Spring, Over the fresh earth and the heaven of noon, A horror of great darkness, like the night In day of which the Norland sagas tell, — The Twilight of the Gods.