American Monthly Knickerbocker, Zväzok 18Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1841 |
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Strana 3
... heads are uncovered and their hair un- bound and pendant . While they are thus occupied , other women are attending to the corpse ; they clothe it from head to foot in the best apparel , and in this state lay it upon a very low bed ...
... heads are uncovered and their hair un- bound and pendant . While they are thus occupied , other women are attending to the corpse ; they clothe it from head to foot in the best apparel , and in this state lay it upon a very low bed ...
Strana 13
... head Thou liest like some dark dream , And in the vale thy hand is spread O'er rock , and tree , and stream ; And solemn sounds thou utterest , For a mystic voice is thine , And the mournful words thou mutterest Loud swell , or soft ...
... head Thou liest like some dark dream , And in the vale thy hand is spread O'er rock , and tree , and stream ; And solemn sounds thou utterest , For a mystic voice is thine , And the mournful words thou mutterest Loud swell , or soft ...
Strana 23
... head upon my hand , to gaze through my window upon the dim soft landscape which slept before me in the mellow light . In that calm , happy , half- dozing state , I was just likening the distant winding line of fog , which hung and ...
... head upon my hand , to gaze through my window upon the dim soft landscape which slept before me in the mellow light . In that calm , happy , half- dozing state , I was just likening the distant winding line of fog , which hung and ...
Strana 26
... head back , and cram his foot down his throat ! what a precious - looking " ' Bah ! bah ! ' exclaimed a conceited and effeminate voice , in the opposite corner , regardless of the deep solemnity of the occasion ; and up popped a foppish ...
... head back , and cram his foot down his throat ! what a precious - looking " ' Bah ! bah ! ' exclaimed a conceited and effeminate voice , in the opposite corner , regardless of the deep solemnity of the occasion ; and up popped a foppish ...
Strana 42
... . I'll tell you what I did the other night . I had thought and thought on this one subject ; and it would keep running into my head , that if she were out of the way , how well I could 42 [ July , The Quod Correspondence .
... . I'll tell you what I did the other night . I had thought and thought on this one subject ; and it would keep running into my head , that if she were out of the way , how well I could 42 [ July , The Quod Correspondence .
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Strana 251 - The white people had now found our country. Tidings were carried back and more came amongst us. Yet, we did not fear them. We took them to be friends. They called us brothers. We believed them and gave them a larger seat. At length, their numbers had greatly increased. They wanted more land; they wanted our country. Our eyes were opened and our minds became uneasy.
Strana 251 - But an evil day came upon us. Your forefathers crossed the great water and landed on this island. Their numbers were small. They found friends, and not enemies. They told us they had fled from their own country for fear of wicked men and had come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat. We took pity on them, granted their request, and they sat down amongst us. We gave them corn and meat.
Strana 365 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Strana 387 - Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks, that high in heaven Mingled their mossy boughs, and from the sound Of the invisible breath, that swayed at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power, And inaccessible majesty.
Strana 253 - Brother, we do not wish to destroy your religion or take it from you. We only want to enjoy our own. Brother, you say you have not come to get our land or our money, but to enlighten our minds. I will now tell you that I have been at your meetings and saw you collect money from the meeting.
Strana 458 - Being wholly destitute of all other weapons, he stooped down to take up a huge stone in his hand; but to his infinite surprise grasped nothing, and found the supposed stone to be only the apparition of one. If he was disappointed on this side, he was as much pleased on the other, when he found the lion, which had seized on his left shoulder, had no power to hurt him, and was only the ghost of that ravenous creature which it appeared to be. He no sooner got rid of...
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Strana 458 - ... bar; others were breaking the apparition of a horse; and multitudes employing themselves upon ingenious handicrafts with the souls of departed utensils, for that is the name which in the Indian language they give their tools when they are burnt or broken.
Strana 93 - With this apparatus several unsuccessful efforts were made to force her from the den. The hounds came back badly wounded, and refused to return. The smoke of blazing straw had no effect; nor did the fumes of burnt brimstone, with which the cavern was filled, compel her to quit the retirement.
Strana 93 - ... a coward in his family, resolved himself to destroy the ferocious beast, lest she should escape through some unknown fissure of the rock. His...