The Pathfinder; or, The inland seaAppleton, 1883 |
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Strana xvii
... wood . " In July the whole French force was moving nearer to the threatened fort at Choueguen . On the 29th of July M. de Montcalm arrived at Frontenac . On the 6th of August , he crossed the lake to Niouarè or Sandy Creek . The force ...
... wood . " In July the whole French force was moving nearer to the threatened fort at Choueguen . On the 29th of July M. de Montcalm arrived at Frontenac . On the 6th of August , he crossed the lake to Niouarè or Sandy Creek . The force ...
Strana xviii
... woods . Accordingly with M. de Rigaud at their head , they waded across , raising frightful yells , which the Indians called Salaquois ; probably the death - whoop , said by those who have heard it in our own day to be the most fearful ...
... woods . Accordingly with M. de Rigaud at their head , they waded across , raising frightful yells , which the Indians called Salaquois ; probably the death - whoop , said by those who have heard it in our own day to be the most fearful ...
Strana xxii
... Wood Creek , the most desirable of all places for a traveller who loves to linger , if such another traveller there be . This is a small river which winds irregularly through a deep and narrow valley of the most lavish fertility . The ...
... Wood Creek , the most desirable of all places for a traveller who loves to linger , if such another traveller there be . This is a small river which winds irregularly through a deep and narrow valley of the most lavish fertility . The ...
Strana xxix
... Wood Creek . A cluster of forts had arisen one after the other about this portage , but they were already in a ruinous condition . And here again , were a cluster of locks , and a bit of canal to connect the eastern and the western ...
... Wood Creek . A cluster of forts had arisen one after the other about this portage , but they were already in a ruinous condition . And here again , were a cluster of locks , and a bit of canal to connect the eastern and the western ...
Strana xxxi
... wood ; the men would place themselves at the bow , two on each side , thrust their poles into the channel , and grasping the wooden bars successively , work their way towards the stern , impelling the boat forward by this laborious ...
... wood ; the men would place themselves at the bow , two on each side , thrust their poles into the channel , and grasping the wooden bars successively , work their way towards the stern , impelling the boat forward by this laborious ...
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Strana 212 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Strana 123 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Strana 359 - I pray, the vision with thy voice: This is our palace, — yonder is thy throne; Speak, and the floor thou tread'st on will rejoice. Not to appal me have the gods bestowed This precious boon; and blest a sad abode.
Strana 86 - O that some Minstrel's harp were near, To utter notes of gladness, And chase this silence from the air, That fills my heart with sadness...
Strana 246 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Strana 272 - It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance; And so am I for Phebe.
Strana 165 - ... of fictitiousness and general improbability over it. This comes of Cooper's inadequacy as an observer. The reader will find some examples of Cooper's high talent for inaccurate observation in the account of the shooting-match in The Pathfinder. "A common wrought nail was driven lightly into the target, its head having been first touched with paint.
Strana 105 - But it seemed as the harp of the sky had rung, And the airs of heaven played round her tongue, When she spake of the lovely forms she had seen, And a land where sin had never been, — A land of love and a land of light, Withouten sun or moon or night ; Where the river swa'da living stream, And the light a pure celestial beam : The land of vision it would seem, A still, an everlasting dream.
Strana 468 - Were wafted off to seas unknown, Where not a pulse should beat but ours, And we might live, love, die alone! Far from the cruel and the cold, — Where the bright eyes of angels only Should come around us, to behold A paradise so pure and lonely ! Would this be world enough for thee?
Strana 28 - Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed ; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood ; And torrents dashed and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade.