 | John George Bourinot - Balls (Parties) - 1896 - 62 pages
...Parkman, the greatest of American historians, thirty years ago when Canadian history was never read, "and when we evoke its departed shades, they rise...fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and black-robed priest, mingled with wild forms of savage warriors, knit in close fellowship on the same... | |
 | Henry Eduard Legler - Wisconsin - 1898 - 334 pages
...crucifix, as their companions came with sword. "The French dominion is a memory of the past," says Parkman, "and when we evoke its departed shades, they rise...burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassel and black-robed priest, mingled with wild forms of savage warriors, knit in close fellowship... | |
 | John Fiske - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 502 pages
...before us, I will quote his own words from one of the introductory pages of his opening volume: — " The French dominion is a memory of the past; and when...graves in strange romantic guise. Again their ghostly camp fires seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and black-robed priest,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1899 - 312 pages
...before us, I will quote his own words from one of the introductory pages of his opening volume: — " The French dominion is a memory of the past ; and...evoke its departed shades, they rise upon us from then: graves in strange romantic guise. Again their ghostly camp-fires seem to burn, and the fitful... | |
 | James Earl Russell - Education - 1908 - 430 pages
...description like that in the introduction to the Pioneers of France in the New World, by Francis Parkman. "The French dominion is a memory of the past ; and...fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and black-robed priest, mingled with wild forms of savage warriors, knit in close fellowship on the same... | |
 | Self-culture - 1900 - 654 pages
...the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt. . . . The French dominion is a memory of the past; and when...fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and blackrobed priest, mingled with wild forms of savage warriors, knit in close fellowship on the same... | |
 | John Fiske - Arbitration (International law) - 1900 - 504 pages
...before us, I will quote his own words from one of the introductory pages of his opening volume: — " The French dominion is a memory of the past; and when...graves in strange romantic guise. Again their ghostly camp fires seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and black-robed priest,... | |
 | Charles Haight Farnham - Explorers - 1901 - 448 pages
...of his entire work and its intimate relation to himself, this remarkable picture may stand alone : " The French Dominion is a memory of the past ; and...graves in strange romantic guise. Again their ghostly campfirea seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal, and black-robed priest,... | |
 | Charles Haight Farnham - 1910 - 434 pages
...shades, they rise upon us from their graves in strange romantic guise. Again their ghostly campfirea seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal, and black-robed priest, mingled with wild forms of savage warriors, knit in close fellowship on the same... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 568 pages
...before us, I will quote his own words from one of the introductory pages of his opening volume : — " The French dominion is a memory of the past ; and...graves in strange romantic guise. Again their ghostly camp fires seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and black-robed priest,... | |
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The French dominion is a memory of the past ; and when we evoke its departed shades, they rise upon us from their graves in strange, romantic guise. Again their ghostly camp-fires seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and... 
