As this was said, they reached the boat, and were quickly pulled on board the Santa Maria. By this time the peaks of the islands were towering like gloomy shadows in the atmosphere, and, soon after, the caravels resembled dark, shapeless specks, on the... Mercedes of Castile: Or, The Voyage to Cathay - Page 241by James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pages
...New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free— Our fathers—trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love sh6uld keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ;... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 498 pages
...with the return of the sun. All now dependeth on quitting the Canaries unseen." MERCEDES OF CASTILE. As this was said, they reached the boat, and were...their hulls. CHAPTER XVI. " They little thought how pore a light, With years, should gather round that day j How love should keep their memories bright... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 498 pages
...than their own feeble knowledge ; and we will depart with the return of the sun. All now dependeth on quitting the Canaries unseen." As this was said, they reached the boat, and \v8re quickly pulled on board the Santa Maria. By this time the peaks of the islands were towering... | |
| One of 'em - 1855 - 340 pages
...on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Onr fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years should gather round that day ; IIow love should keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sous should sway. Green are their... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1855 - 310 pages
...on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day : Green are their bays ; but greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1857 - 500 pages
...than their own feeble knowledge ; and we will depart with the return of the sun. All now dependeth on quitting the Canaries unseen." As this was said,...shapeless specks, on the unquiet element that washed their I ulls. CHAPTER XVI. " They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 502 pages
...depart with the return of the sun. All now dependeth on quitting the Canaries unseen." As this was s&id, they reached the boat, and were quickly pulled on...shapeless specks, on the unquiet element that washed their ty 11*. CHAPTER XVI. "They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day;... | |
| William Henry Bartlett - 1866 - 296 pages
...landed on the Rock at Plymouth. In the beautiful and prophetic lines of Bryant — TUB ATLANTIC. 161 " They little thought how pure a light With years should gather round that day, IIo\v love should keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. " Green are... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1867 - 492 pages
...than their own feeble knowledge ; and we will depart with the return of the sun. All now dependeth on quitting the Canaries unseen." As this was said,...shapeless specks, on the unquiet element that washed their lulls. CHAPTER XVI. '* They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day... | |
| David Thomas - 1868 - 222 pages
...a noble and dauntless spirit, their minds having been disciplined in the school of hard experience. They little thought how pure a light. With years should gather round that day; How lore should keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Now and then a ray... | |
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