Records and Papers of the New London County Historical Society, Volume 3The Society., 1906 |
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Page 150 - Scattered were they, like flakes of snow, when the wind from the northeast Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the Banks of Newfoundland. Friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city, From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern savannas, — From the bleak shores of the sea to the lands where the Father of Waters Seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them down to the ocean, Deep in their sands to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth.
Page 196 - and all such rebels!" with his most judicial frown. But, Virginians, don't do it! for I tell you that the flagon, Filled with blood of Old Brown's offspring, was first poured by Southern hands; And each drop from Old Brown's life-veins, like the red gore of the dragon, May spring up a vengeful Fury, hissing through your slave- worn lands! And Old Brown, Osawatomie Brown, May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin down!
Page 196 - ... Nature, beating still With throbs her vernal passion taught her, — Even here, as on the vine-clad hill, Or by the Arethusan water ! New forms may fold the speech, new lands Arise within these ocean-portals, But Music waves eternal wands, — Enchantress of the souls of mortals! So thought I, — but among us trod A man in blue, with legal baton, And scoffed the vagrant demigod, And pushed him from the step I sat on. Doubting I mused upon the cry, " Great Pan is dead ! " — and all the people...
Page 47 - I shall call that my country, where I may most glorify God, and enjoy the presence of my dearest friends.
Page 188 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the widespread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweet draught, and, if hungry, ate the...
Page 163 - For the business of New England, I can say no other thing, but that I believe confidently, that the whole disposition thereof is of the Lord, who disposeth all alterations, by his blessed will, to his own glory and the good of his ; and, therefore, do assure myself, that all things shall work together for the best therein. And for myself...
Page 184 - Teraiobu to go on board, and actually persuaded the old man to go at length, and led him within a rod or two of the shore ; but the just fears and conjectures of the chiefs at last interposed. They held the old man back, and one of the chiefs threatened Cook, when he attempted to make them quit Teraiobu. Some of the crowd now cried out, that Cook was going to take their king from them and kill him...
Page 183 - The appearance of our parade both by water and on shore, though conducted with the utmost silence, and with as little ostentation as possible, had alarmed the towns on both sides of the bay, but particularly Kiverua, where the people were in complete order for an onset: otherwise it would have been a matter of surprise, that though Cook did not see twenty men in passing through the town, yet, before he had conversed ten minutes with Teraiobu, he was surrounded by three or four hundred people, and...
Page 174 - THE ATLANTIC." MRS. SIGOURNEY. ]|OLL, toll, toll, toll ! Thou bell by billows swung, And, night and day, thy warning words Repeat with mournful tongue ! Toll for the queenly boat, Wrecked on yon rocky shore ! Sea-weed is in her palace halls — She rides the surge no more. Toll for the master bold, The high-souled and the brave, Who ruled her like a thing of life Amid the crested wave ! Toll for the hardy crew, Sons of the storm and blast, Who long the tyrant ocean dared ; But it vanquished them...
Page 188 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings ; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.