 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1864 - 622 pages
...vague, ill-restricted passions, and stations of command. The French dominion is a memory of the past, and when we wake its departed shades, they rise upon...savage warriors, knit in close fellowship on the same errand. A boundless vision grows upon us, an untamed continent ; vast wastes of forest verdure ; mountains... | |
 | William James Anderson, Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, Middleton & Dawson - 1867 - 102 pages
...vague, ill-restricted passions, and stations of command. The French dominion is a memory of the past, and when we wake its departed shades, they rise upon...savage warriors, knit in close fellowship on the same errand. A boundless vision grows upon us, an untamed continent; vast wastes of forest verdure ; mountains... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1870 - 40 pages
...dominions in America: " The French dominion is a memory of the past; and when we wake its departed shade", they rise upon us from their graves in strange romantic...the same stern errand, a boundless vision grows upon ua : an untamed continent ; vast wastes of forest verdure ; mountains silent in primeval sleep; river,... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1875 - 366 pages
...there were 110 ; and there are now over 400 (exclusive of the University students). " When we awake its departed shades, they rise upon us from their graves, in strange romantic guise. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close breath of the cloister, here spent the noon and... | |
 | james r. osgood and company - 1875 - 382 pages
...there were 110 ; and there are now over 400 (exclusive of the University students). " When we awake its departed shades, they rise upon us from their graves, in strange romantic guise. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close breath of the cloister, here spent the noon and... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1880 - 506 pages
...every nation of the civilized world. The French dominion is a memory of the past; and, when we evoke its departed shades, they rise upon us from their...fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and black - robed priest, mingled with wild forms of savage warriors, knit in close fellowship on the same... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1882 - 572 pages
...former vast dominions in America : — " The French dominion is a memory of the past ; and when we evoke its departed shades, they rise upon us from their...boundless vision grows upon us: an untamed continent; vast wastes of forest verdure; mountains silent in primeval sleep; river, lake, and glimmering pool... | |
 | 1916 - 724 pages
...shades, they rise up on us from their graves in strange, romantic guise. Again their ghostly camp/ires seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around...boundless vision grows upon us; an untamed continent; vast wastes of forest verdure; mountains silent in primeval sleep; river, lake, and glimmering pool,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1885 - 522 pages
...every nation of the civilized world. The French dominion is a memory of the past ; and when we evoke its departed shades, they rise upon us from their...boundless vision grows upon us ; an untamed continent ; vast wastes of forest verdure ; mountains silent in primeval sleep ; river, lake, and glimmering... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1885 - 518 pages
...every nation of the civilized world. The French dominion is a memory of the past ; and when we evoke its departed shades, they rise upon us from their...boundless vision grows upon us ; an untamed continent ; vast wastes of forest verdure ; mountains silent in primeval sleep ; river, lake, and glimmering... | |
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The French dominion is a memory of the past ; and when we evoke its departed shades, they rise upon us from their graves in strange, romantic guise. Again their ghostly camp-fires seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and... 
