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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... facts , concerning the deceased , as may suffice to render them acquainted with the individual who ministered so often and so long to their amusement , under the fictitious name , J. CYPRESS , JR . MEMOIR OF WM P HAWES.
... facts , concerning the deceased , as may suffice to render them acquainted with the individual who ministered so often and so long to their amusement , under the fictitious name , J. CYPRESS , JR . MEMOIR OF WM P HAWES.
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... fact man ; one who has no fancy , who never tells his dreams for truths , nor adds a single bird or fish in the story of the sum total of his successes . There is no design , upon his part , in the choice of his place of existence , or ...
... fact man ; one who has no fancy , who never tells his dreams for truths , nor adds a single bird or fish in the story of the sum total of his successes . There is no design , upon his part , in the choice of his place of existence , or ...
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... fact ; and there are not many men beside us and John Verity , and Raynor Rock , who are up to that performance . Uncle Ben Raynor could do it once , and Dan thinks he can do it now ; but , as Peter Probasco says , " I have my doubts ...
... fact ; and there are not many men beside us and John Verity , and Raynor Rock , who are up to that performance . Uncle Ben Raynor could do it once , and Dan thinks he can do it now ; but , as Peter Probasco says , " I have my doubts ...
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... fact , that there never was an instance of a sincere lover of a dog , gun , and rod , being sent to bridewell or penitentiary . Jails they did whilom affect , before John Doe and Richard Roe were banished from the state , and when an ...
... fact , that there never was an instance of a sincere lover of a dog , gun , and rod , being sent to bridewell or penitentiary . Jails they did whilom affect , before John Doe and Richard Roe were banished from the state , and when an ...
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... fact , that the Delaware tribe , or Lenni Lenapes , who claimed Matowacs as a colony , were an uncommonly piscivorous nation . I spoke to Uncle Ben upon the subject once , and asked his opinion . He told me that he " couldn't say for ...
... fact , that the Delaware tribe , or Lenni Lenapes , who claimed Matowacs as a colony , were an uncommonly piscivorous nation . I spoke to Uncle Ben upon the subject once , and asked his opinion . He told me that he " couldn't say for ...
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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...
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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...