Supplement to the Connecticut Courant: Containing Tales, Travels, History, Biography, Poetry, and a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Articles, Tập 3J.L. Boswell., 1832 |
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... heard the story from Capt Grigg himself ; the dog in the meanwhile sat gravely by his side , and looking up sorrowfully , as if perfect- ly conscious that his master was describing his sufferings . " I suppose , " said General Dearborn ...
... heard the story from Capt Grigg himself ; the dog in the meanwhile sat gravely by his side , and looking up sorrowfully , as if perfect- ly conscious that his master was describing his sufferings . " I suppose , " said General Dearborn ...
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... heard , and which confirmed his first impression . But there are yet fur- ther developments of the plot to be noticed . Just as the Col. was seating himself at sup- per , the hasty , and unceremonious entrance of three men into the room ...
... heard , and which confirmed his first impression . But there are yet fur- ther developments of the plot to be noticed . Just as the Col. was seating himself at sup- per , the hasty , and unceremonious entrance of three men into the room ...
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... heard , and during and dashed off to the woods ; and probably this conference , something fell upon the floor , fell int › the hands of some fortunate hunter , which sounded like the blade of a knife- or party of strolling Indians ...
... heard , and during and dashed off to the woods ; and probably this conference , something fell upon the floor , fell int › the hands of some fortunate hunter , which sounded like the blade of a knife- or party of strolling Indians ...
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... heard a rustling among the leaves on the mountain immediately above my head , which at first was so distant that I thought it merely an eddy in the wind , whirling the leaves from the ground ; but it increased so rapidly , and ...
... heard a rustling among the leaves on the mountain immediately above my head , which at first was so distant that I thought it merely an eddy in the wind , whirling the leaves from the ground ; but it increased so rapidly , and ...
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... heard of his death as he was going to prospect of its recrossing the stream , I took an evening party , where he spoke of his de- rest for my rifle on a projecting limb of the parted friend , and of his irreparable loss to tree on which ...
... heard of his death as he was going to prospect of its recrossing the stream , I took an evening party , where he spoke of his de- rest for my rifle on a projecting limb of the parted friend , and of his irreparable loss to tree on which ...
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Trang 378 - They mount up to the heaven, They go down again to the depths : Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits
Trang 392 - There are many more' shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possesed of them.
Trang 473 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain.
Trang 129 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Trang 432 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Trang 169 - He proved them all — the doubt, the strife, The faint perplexing dread, The mists that hang o'er parting life, All...
Trang 129 - The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Trang 129 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Trang 56 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Trang 385 - t is given To wake sweet Nature's untaught lays; Beneath the arch of heaven To chirp away a life of praise. Then spread each wing Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing In yon blue dome not reared with hands.