Evenings in Boston. ...Bowles and Dearborn, 1827 - 117 σελίδες The evening occupations and amusements of a Boston family during a single winter, including stories told by a much traveled uncle. |
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amusement armed attended bagpipes ball beautiful bery Boston brother bugle Cæsar called Cape Francois CAPTAIN RAMBLE CAROLINE characters Charles clarionet dance dark DEAR SISTER deep foundation delightful Dr Franklin dress entertainment fancy father favorite feel Frank friends furnished gambling garden glass happy HARVARD COLLEGE Havana hear heard hill letter little George looking LORD BYRON mansion Marchioness Marquis Mary Matanzas ment merchant mind mother musician Mystery negroes never observed orange ORMOND parasite plants Paris passed PEASANT Pierre Pierre's plantation planter plants play portmanteaus post chaise Ranz des Vaches recollect regard returned ride round Saturday scenery scenes seated shore shrub slaves soon sort sound story sugar suppose taste tell theatre theme thick thing thousand travelling trees tune uncle George uncle's vessel volante walk West Indian WHITE BRANDY whole woods write
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Σελίδα 19 - I bought the volume, and read it again and again. I was enchanted with it, thought the style excellent, and wished it were in my power to imitate it. With this view, I selected some of the papers, made short summaries of the sense of each period, and put them for a few days aside. I then...
Σελίδα 52 - Adieu to thee, fair Rhine ! How long delighted The stranger fain would linger on his way ! Thine is a scene alike where souls united Or lonely Contemplation thus might stray; And could the ceaseless vultures cease to prey On self-condemning bosoms, it were here, Where Nature, nor too sombre nor too gay, Wild but not rude, awful yet not austere, Is to the mellow Earth as Autumn to the year.
Σελίδα 44 - I am Ruy Diaz, the champion of Bivar ; Strike amongst them, gentlemen, for sweet mercy's sake...
Σελίδα 113 - ... from her growlings and gnashing of teeth, he concluded not far distant ; accordingly he undertook to crawl through the passage, in order to invade her retirement ; but, no sooner had he presented his head through this strait, than he saw the bear gazing at the candle, her head not being more than 18 inches from his. He withdrew his head, as may well be imagined ; and, having placed the candle in a different position, retreated to the entrance of the cave, and applied to his fellow hunters for...
Σελίδα 112 - ID the morning it was determined that some one should enter the den, and endeavor either to dispatch or dislodge the enemy. Every one declined the hazardous enterprise. At length Mr. Mason Murch concluded to make the attempt. Furnished with a short piece of a lighted candle, he descended the cave through an aperture just sufficient to admit a person of middling size, in a direction nearly perpendicular, to the depth of eight or nine feet ; thence, horizontally, about 20 or 30 feet, to the extremity...