Greyslaer: A Romance of the Mohawk, 1. cilt

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Harper & brothers, 1840 - 503 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 21 - They left the ploughshare in the mould, Their flocks and herds without a fold, The sickle in the unshorn grain, The corn, half-garnered, on the plain, And mustered, in their simple dress, For wrongs to seek a stern redress, To right those wrongs, come weal, come woe, To perish, or o'ercome their foe.
Sayfa 52 - Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear: When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...
Sayfa 101 - He grasps his war axe and bow, and a sheaf Of darts made sharp for the foe. And he looks for the print of the ruffian's feet, Where he bore the maiden away ; And he darts on the fatal path more fleet Than the blast that hurries the vapour and sleet O'er the wild November day.
Sayfa 153 - And in the mountain mist, the torrent's spray, The quivering forest, or the glassy flood, Soft falling showers, or hues of orient day, They imaged spirits beautiful and good ; But when the tempest roared, with voices rude, Or fierce, red lightning fired the forest pine, Or withering heats untimely seared the wood, The angry forms they saw of powers malign ; These they besought to spare, those blest for aid divine.
Sayfa 141 - But for what are many of your prisoners confined ? — for debt ! — astonishing ! — and will you ever again call the Indian nations cruel? Liberty, to a rational creature, as much exceeds property as the light of the sun does that of the most twinkling star. But you put them on a level, to the everlasting disgrace of civilization.
Sayfa 167 - All their proceedings were conducted with great deliberation, and were distinguished for order, decorum, and solemnity. In eloquence, in dignity, and in all the characteristics of profound policy, they surpassed an assembly of feudal barons, and were perhaps not far inferior to the great Amphyctionic Council of Greece.
Sayfa 5 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Sayfa 9 - I no way to flatter but my fondness; in all the bravery my friends could show me, in all the faith my innocence could give me, in the best language my true tongue could tell me, and all the broken sighs my sick heart lend me, I sued and served. Long did I serve this lady, long was my travail, long my trade to win her: with all the duty of my soul I SERVED HER.
Sayfa 141 - I seriously declare, I had rather die by the most severe tortures ever inflicted on this continent, than languish in one of your prisons for a single year. Great Spirit of the Universe !—and do you call yourselves Christians ? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Saviour, inspire this spirit, and lead to these practices ? Surely no. It is recorded of him, that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you publish to the world your hypocrisy. Cease,...
Sayfa 209 - ... fortunes, I were dead To love and pity, were not soul and body Spent for his smallest need ! I did consent To wed his ruthless creditor for this ! I would have sprung into the sea, the grave, As questionless and soon ! My troth- is yours ! But...

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