Adventures and Achievements of Americans: A Series of Narratives Illustrating Their Heroism, Self-reliance, Genius and EnterpriseGeo. F. Tuttle, 1861 - 732 ページ |
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... SOLDIER . Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter , who was a soldier in the American Revolution , and took a distinguished part in the Battle of Bunker Hill , in which he received three wounds ; after which he was taken prisoner by ...
... SOLDIER . Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter , who was a soldier in the American Revolution , and took a distinguished part in the Battle of Bunker Hill , in which he received three wounds ; after which he was taken prisoner by ...
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... Soldiers at the Salt Water ... Seizure of Judson , the Missionary .... The Heathen of the Five Points .... Victory of the Yacht America ..... DRAWN BY . ENGRAVED BY . P. Robert O'Brien ... A. H. Ritchie . 1 Felix O. C. Darley . Eli D ...
... Soldiers at the Salt Water ... Seizure of Judson , the Missionary .... The Heathen of the Five Points .... Victory of the Yacht America ..... DRAWN BY . ENGRAVED BY . P. Robert O'Brien ... A. H. Ritchie . 1 Felix O. C. Darley . Eli D ...
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... soldier , afterward as an officer . My mother had the sole charge of us , four little ones . Our house was a poor one , and far from neighbors . I have a keen remembrance of the terrible cold of some of those winters . The snow lay so ...
... soldier , afterward as an officer . My mother had the sole charge of us , four little ones . Our house was a poor one , and far from neighbors . I have a keen remembrance of the terrible cold of some of those winters . The snow lay so ...
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... soldiers , where he was every instant exposed to arrest , as indeed was every citizen who went abroad without a royal protection in his pocket . In such an event , he was very certain to have been confined in the old " Sugar House ...
... soldiers , where he was every instant exposed to arrest , as indeed was every citizen who went abroad without a royal protection in his pocket . In such an event , he was very certain to have been confined in the old " Sugar House ...
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... soldiers for his guard ; -close by , the mu- latto hangman of Cunningham , with rope and ladder ; —and behind , Cun- ningham himself ; -to the cadence of the " Dead March , " Hale proceeded to the fatal spot . They reached the place ...
... soldiers for his guard ; -close by , the mu- latto hangman of Cunningham , with rope and ladder ; —and behind , Cun- ningham himself ; -to the cadence of the " Dead March , " Hale proceeded to the fatal spot . They reached the place ...
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606 ページ - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
606 ページ - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
619 ページ - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he ; not a...
605 ページ - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hailed as a treasure, For often at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
136 ページ - And what have we to oppose to them ? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.
610 ページ - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
598 ページ - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
619 ページ - December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;— vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
619 ページ - art sure no craven, Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the nightly shore! Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
612 ページ - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.