Memoir of Wm. P. Hawes. To the memory of Cypress. Fire Island-Ana; or a week at the Fire Islands. Controversy concerning the Genera, &c. of Quail and Partridge. Bear. Collineomania. Legends of Long IslandGould, Banks & Company, 1842 - American poetry |
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... bringing back the dripping nectar of its contents . This was an interesting spectacle to contemplate . In sooth , it was expressly ante - diluvian . Forcibly was I reminded of that an- cient and sententious maxim , " fingers was made ...
... bringing back the dripping nectar of its contents . This was an interesting spectacle to contemplate . In sooth , it was expressly ante - diluvian . Forcibly was I reminded of that an- cient and sententious maxim , " fingers was made ...
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... bring with it , and I tried to repent of the multiplied iniquities of my almost wasted life ; but I found that that was no place for a sinner to settle his accounts . Wretched soul ! pray , I could not . a The water had now got above my ...
... bring with it , and I tried to repent of the multiplied iniquities of my almost wasted life ; but I found that that was no place for a sinner to settle his accounts . Wretched soul ! pray , I could not . a The water had now got above my ...
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... bringing its avenue of dis- charge into no merely suspicious juxtaposition to the tumbler in his left- " if you will , you will . Some pork will boil that way . " " It's goen to be a dry story , I expect , Mr. Paul . My throat feels ...
... bringing its avenue of dis- charge into no merely suspicious juxtaposition to the tumbler in his left- " if you will , you will . Some pork will boil that way . " " It's goen to be a dry story , I expect , Mr. Paul . My throat feels ...
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... Bring up your camels ! " sung out Venus , as he turned over on his side in an uneasy dream about the last thing he heard before he went to sleep . 66 Bring up your camels ! " " So I say , " I continued . " Get out of the city , Ned ...
... Bring up your camels ! " sung out Venus , as he turned over on his side in an uneasy dream about the last thing he heard before he went to sleep . 66 Bring up your camels ! " " So I say , " I continued . " Get out of the city , Ned ...
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... bringing up a good bunch of brant . -More of them , and a few of the black ducks , and sheldrakes , and that goose , anon . Have " That's a lie , mister , that story you told t'other night . my doubts it's all a lie . I've said it ...
... bringing up a good bunch of brant . -More of them , and a few of the black ducks , and sheldrakes , and that goose , anon . Have " That's a lie , mister , that story you told t'other night . my doubts it's all a lie . I've said it ...
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Page 71 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 231 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Page 187 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 170 - His inward woe. Now like a wearied stag, That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage ; Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes Covers his fatal beak, and cautious hides The well-dissembled fraud. The falcon darts Like lightning from above, and in her breast Receives the latent death : down plump she falls Bounding from earth, and with her trickling gore Defiles her gaudy plumage.
Page 190 - The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like a star of heaven In the broad daylight Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
Page 167 - The saide Robert entertained an hundred tall men and good archers with such spoiles and thefts as he got, upon whom four hundred ( were they ever so strong) durst not give the onset. He suffered no woman to be oppressed, violated or otherwise molested : poore men's goods he spared, abundantlie relieving them with that which by theft he got from abbeys and the houses of rich carles : whom Maior (the historian) blameth for his rapine and theft, but of all theeves he affirmeth him to be the prince and...
Page 42 - I could get no reply, nor notice of my request. I entreated them, for the love of heaven, to take me off; and I promised, I know not what rewards, that were entirely beyond my power of bestowal. But the brutal wretch of a captain, muttering something to the effect of ' that he hadn't time to stop...
Page 39 - ... gurgling in the fissures of the rock, or except now and then the cry of a solitary saucy gull, who would come out of his way in the firmament, to see what I was doing without a boat, all alone, in the middle of the sound ; and who would hover, and cry, and chatter, and make two or three circling swoops and dashes at me, and then, after having satisfied his curiosity, glide away in search of some other food to scream at. " I soon became half indolent, and quite indifferent about fishing ; so I...
Page 51 - I'd liked to've skipped that ere. Why, sir, I've heerd different accounts as to that. Uncle Obe Verity told me he reckoned .the captin cut off one of the bear's paws, when he lay stretched out asleep, one day, with his jack-knife, and sucked that for fodder, and they say there's a smart deal o' nourishment in a white bear's foot.
Page 45 - I became persuaded that my tide-waiters were reasonable beings, who might be talked into mercy and humanity, if a body could only hit upon the right text. So, I bowed, and gesticulated, and threw out my hands, and talked to them, as friends, and brothers, members of my family, cousins, uncles, aunts, people waiting to have their bills paid ; — I scolded them as my servants ; I abused them as duns ; I implored them as jurymen sitting on the question of my life ; I congratulated, and flattered them...