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... wild and pictur- esque life which fell , in the present instance , under his own eye , yet in doing so he has constantly aimed to leave an impression of their character correct as far as it goes . In justifying his claim to accuracy on ...
... wild and pictur- esque life which fell , in the present instance , under his own eye , yet in doing so he has constantly aimed to leave an impression of their character correct as far as it goes . In justifying his claim to accuracy on ...
Page ix
... wild nature with the most conscientious effort to give an adequate historical setting to the drama of the forest , with which the novelist had delighted both hemispheres . For the details of Parkman's life the reader must be referred to ...
... wild nature with the most conscientious effort to give an adequate historical setting to the drama of the forest , with which the novelist had delighted both hemispheres . For the details of Parkman's life the reader must be referred to ...
Page xi
... wild Indians . Realizing the relative per- manence of these types - that frontier life and colo- nial life were essentially the same , and that an identi- cal environment acting on the same human factors would produce in the middle of ...
... wild Indians . Realizing the relative per- manence of these types - that frontier life and colo- nial life were essentially the same , and that an identi- cal environment acting on the same human factors would produce in the middle of ...
Page xvii
... wild nature in America as abound in his pages would not be an easy one even in our voluminous literature of outdoor life and nature - study . In illustration of this artistic gift his descriptions of such widely diverse scenes as a ...
... wild nature in America as abound in his pages would not be an easy one even in our voluminous literature of outdoor life and nature - study . In illustration of this artistic gift his descriptions of such widely diverse scenes as a ...
Page xix
... wild life and the American Indian , such as no successor can ever obtain , will always give his narratives in some measure the character of sources . The development of the science of ethnology , for example , has antiquated Prescott's ...
... wild life and the American Indian , such as no successor can ever obtain , will always give his narratives in some measure the character of sources . The development of the science of ethnology , for example , has antiquated Prescott's ...
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Page 174 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reach'd the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 38 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 233 - In the mauger 3 of doughte Dogles, And all that ever with him be. The fattiste hartes in all Cheviat He sayd he wold kill, and cary them away : Be my feth, sayd the dougheti Doglas agayn, I wyll let that hontyng yf that I may.
Page 385 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night...
Page x - War, that is, the war that ended in the conquest of Canada, for here, as it seemed to me, the forest drama was more stirring and the forest stage more thronged with appropriate actors than in any other passage of our history.
Page 307 - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 10 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Page 127 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Page 259 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense...
Page 344 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.