Nooks and Corners of the New England CoastHarper & Brothers, 1875 - 459 pagine |
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Acadia Agamenticus American ancient appears Appledore beach blue-fish boat Boston Bradford British built called Cape Ann Cape Cod Captain Castine Champlain church Clark's Island cliff coast Colonel colony command Cotton Mather Cove England English father feet fish fishermen France French Gorges Gosnold Governor graves hand harbor head Hill hundred Indians inhabitants Isles of Shoals John king Kittery Kittery Point known land ledges light-house lived look Lord lying main-land mansion Marblehead Massachusetts miles Monhegan monument Mount Desert Mountain Nantucket Narraganset natives Newport passed Pemaquid Penobscot Pepperell Pilgrims Plymouth Point port Portsmouth Provincetown remains Rhode Island river road rock sail Salem sand savages says schooners seen settlement ship shore side Smutty Nose spot standing Star Island stone stood Street tide tion town trees Uncas vessel village voyage walk walls Wentworth whale William wind wood
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Pagina 222 - If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed; and here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent. And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all, — at least, till I were in my grave.
Pagina 433 - Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy; take care of poor Lady Hamilton. Kiss me, Hardy,
Pagina 121 - I met withal to this present, [time,] which, with his relation of the country, wrought such an impression in the lord chief justice, and us all that were his associates, that (notwithstanding our first disaster) we set up our resolutions to follow it with effect...
Pagina 108 - I remember the sea-fight far away, How it thundered o'er the tide ! And the dead captains, as they lay In their graves, o'erlooking the tranquil bay Where they in battle died. And the sound of that mournful song Goes through me with a thrill: 'A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Pagina 34 - Ham. Do you see yonder cloud, that's almost in shape of a camel? Pol. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Ham. Methinks, it is like a weasel. • Pol. It is backed like a weasel. Ham. Or, like a whale ? Pol. Very like a whale.
Pagina 201 - Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley ; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses ; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song.
Pagina 17 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Pagina 294 - The king had in his bosom, hanging in a string, a great long knife. He marvelled much at our trumpet ; and some of his men would sound it as well as they could. Samoset and Squanto stayed all night with us...