The Scout: Or, The Black Riders of CongareeRedfield, 1854 - 472 ページ |
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agin ain't answer apprehension arms barony believe Ben Williams Black Riders blood bosom British British army brother Brydone cappin captain Clarence Conway Colonel Conway command Congaree danger Darcy death doubt Edward Conway Edward Morton enemy equally exclaimed eyes fancied fear feel felt fight Flora Middleton followed glance hand hate hear heard heart Hillhouse horse Isaac Muggs Jack Bannister John Bannister keep kinsman knew lady landlord latter lieutenant lips look Lord Lord Rawdon lordship Mary Clarkson mighty mind Miss Middleton nateral natural never night once outlaw pain party perhaps person pistol poor prisoner Rawdon ready rebel reckon replied river scout seemed smile soon sort speak spoke Stockton stood strife suffer Supple Jack sure surgeon swamp tell there's thing thought tion tory troop truth watch Wateree Watson Gray weapon whigs woodman woods words
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294 ページ - With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by noon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet...
294 ページ - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
389 ページ - I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear For now I will wear this, and now I will wear that. And now I will wear I cannot tell what.
8 ページ - ... the Revolution in South Carolina without noting the flocks of buzzards gathering to fall upon the carrion. War is not a heroic thing in these stirring pages. It invites debauchery and encourages brutality. Blackguards put a black stain on military glory. In the preface to The Scout, Simms remarks: To burn and slay were not the simple .performances of this reckless period and ravaged country. To burn in wantonness and to murder in cold blood, and by the cruellest tortures, were the familiar achievements...
138 ページ - ... Isaac Muggs is an innkeeper, reputed to be neutral in the conflict, but Jack knows that Isaac has been dealing with the Black Riders. Since Jack likes Isaac and realizes that he could become a valuable ally, he undertakes to convert him to the Revolutionary cause. First, he argues his case powerfully: "It's agin natur' and reason, and a man's own seven senses...
139 ページ - ... that I won't pay George the Third any more taxes. That's the word for all ; and it's good reason why I shouldn't pay him, when, for all his trying, he can't make me. Here he's sent his rigiments — rigiment after rigiment — and the queen sent her rigiment, and the prince of Wales his rigiment — I reckon we didn't tear the prince's rigiment all to flinders at Hanging Rock! — Well, then, there was the Royal Scotch and the Royal Irish, and the Dutch Hessians; — I suppose they didn't call...
155 ページ - The revolutionary war, in South Carolina, did not so much divide the people, because of the tendencies to loyalty, or liberty, on either hand, as because of social and other influences — personal and sectional...
9 ページ - South Carolina, at the period of our narrative, presented the terrible spectacle of an entire people in arms, and hourly engaging in the most sanguinary conflicts.
9 ページ - Redf1eld, 1854), p. 55. engaging in the most sanguinary conflicts. The district of country called "Ninety-Six" ... is estimated to have had within its borders, at the close of the Revolution, no less than fifteen hundred widows and orphans, made so during its progress. Despair seems to have blinded the one party as effectually to the atrocity of their deeds, as that drunkenness of heart, which follows upon long-continued success, had made insensible the other, (pp. 12-13) In his fourth Revolutionary...