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Page viii
... close of his sophomore year he found the work into which he could put his whole heart . His love for literature and the wilderness determined him to write a history of the Old French War - the struggle between English , French , and ...
... close of his sophomore year he found the work into which he could put his whole heart . His love for literature and the wilderness determined him to write a history of the Old French War - the struggle between English , French , and ...
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... history , I meant first to limit myself to the great contest which brought that his- tory to a close . " Like Milton's " Paradise Lost . " " Montcalm and Wolfe " represents the author's earliest inspiration xii INTRODUCTION.
... history , I meant first to limit myself to the great contest which brought that his- tory to a close . " Like Milton's " Paradise Lost . " " Montcalm and Wolfe " represents the author's earliest inspiration xii INTRODUCTION.
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... close at hand were three men with rifles lying across their knees . The foremost of these , a tall , strong figure , with a clear blue eye and an open , in- telligent face , might very well represent that race of rest- less and intrepid ...
... close at hand were three men with rifles lying across their knees . The foremost of these , a tall , strong figure , with a clear blue eye and an open , in- telligent face , might very well represent that race of rest- less and intrepid ...
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... close at hand were their horses and mules , selected by the Captain , who was an excellent judge . The alliance entered into , we left them to complete their arrangements , while we pushed our own to all con- venient speed . The ...
... close at hand were their horses and mules , selected by the Captain , who was an excellent judge . The alliance entered into , we left them to complete their arrangements , while we pushed our own to all con- venient speed . The ...
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... close . Meanwhile our friends had completed theirs , and becoming tired of Westport , they told us that they would set out in advance , and wait at the crossing of the Kansas till we should come up . Accordingly R. and the muleteer went ...
... close . Meanwhile our friends had completed theirs , and becoming tired of Westport , they told us that they would set out in advance , and wait at the crossing of the Kansas till we should come up . Accordingly R. and the muleteer went ...
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Page 34 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 144 - That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 271 - Every line save one of this description was more than verified here. There were no 'dwellings of the mountaineer' among these heights. Fierce savages, restlessly wandering through summer and winter, alone invade them. 'Their hand is against every man, and every man's hand against them.
Page 253 - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 12 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Page 106 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Page 9 - ... an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire of shaking off restraints of law and society, or mere restlessness, certain it is, that multitudes bitterly repent the journey, and, after they have reached the land of promise, are happy enough to escape from it.
Page 283 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 214 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense...
Page vi - He told the red man's story ; far and wide He searched the unwritten records of his race ; He sat a listener at the Sachem's side, He tracked the hunter through his wildwood chase. High o'er his head the soaring eagle screamed; The wolf's long howl rang nightly ; through the vale Tramped the lone bear ; the panther's eyeballs gleamed ; The bison's gallop thundered on the gale.