The Old Bell of IndependenceLindsay and Blakiston, 1851 - 179 من الصفحات |
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The Old Bell of Independence <span dir=ltr>Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2012 |
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الصفحة 44 - Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
الصفحة 143 - Twas early day, as poets say, Just when the sun was rising, A soldier stood on a log of wood, And saw a thing surprising. As in amaze he stood to gaze, The truth can't be denied, sir, He spied a score of kegs or more Come floating down the tide, sir. A sailor, too, in jerkin blue, This strange appearance viewing, First...
الصفحة 43 - After this, Mr. Duche, unexpectedly to every body, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present. I must confess, I never heard a better prayer, or one so well pronounced.
الصفحة 144 - And scared almost to death, sir, Wore out their shoes, to spread the news, And ran till out of breath, sir. Now up and down throughout the town, Most frantic scenes were acted; And some ran here, and others there, Like men almost distracted. Some fire...
الصفحة 148 - After various attempts to find an operator to my wish, I sent one who appeared more expert than the rest from New York to a 50-gun ship lying not far from Governor's Island. He went under the ship and attempted to fix the wooden screw into her bottom, but struck, as he supposes, a bar of iron which passes from the rudder hinge, and is spiked under the ship's quarter. Had he moved a few inches, which he might have done without rowing, I have no doubt...
الصفحة 145 - The rebels — more's the pity, Without a boat are all afloat, And ranged before the city. " The motley crew, in vessels new, With Satan for their guide, sir, Packed up in bags, or wooden kegs, Come driving down the tide, sir. "Therefore prepare for bloody war, These kegs must all be routed, Or surely we despised shall be, And British courage doubted.
الصفحة 43 - The motion was seconded and passed in the affirmative. Mr. Randolph, our president, waited on Mr. Duche", and received for answer that if his health would permit he certainly would. Accordingly, next morning he appeared with his clerk and in his pontificals, and read several prayers in the established form ; and then read the Collect for the seventh day of September, which was the thirty-fifth Psalm. You must remember this was the next morning after we heard the horrible rumor of the cannonade of...
الصفحة 144 - He spied a score of kegs or more Come floating down the tide, sir. A sailor too in jerkin blue, This strange appearance viewing, First damn'd his eyes, in great surprise, Then said some mischief's brewing.
الصفحة 146 - British troops, sir. From morn to night these men of might Display'd amazing courage; And when the sun was fairly down, Retir'd to sup their porrage.
الصفحة 33 - It was but a day past, and our land slept in the light of peace. War was not here, wrong was not here. Fraud, and woe, and misery and want dwelt not among us. From the eternal solitude of the green woods, arose the blue smoke of the settler's cabin ; and golden fields of corn looked forth from amid the waste of the wilderness, and the glad music of human voices awoke the silence of the forest.