 THE place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good: Our mountains and hills and our valleys below Being commonly...  The Heroes of Young America - Page 251by Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1877 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1813 - 322 pages
...been written by him. Johnson is always serious — and lines like those of which the preludte is, " New England's annoyances you that would know them, Pray ponder these verses which briefly doth show them;" and whose jingle is illustrated by the following : " If fresh meat be wanting, to... | |
 | John Farmer - 1824 - 492 pages
...about the year 1630, taken memoriter in 1791, from the lips of old lady, at the advanced age of 92.] 1. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where...fruitful and good ; Our mountains and hills and our rallies helow, Being commonly covered with ice and with snow : And when the north-west wind with violence... | |
 | 1824 - 506 pages
...the year 1630, taken memoriter in 1791, from the lips of ao old lady, at the advanced age of 92.} I. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, 'Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good j Our mountains and hills and our vallies below, Being commonly covered with ice and with SHOW : And... | |
 | 1825 - 398 pages
...called to the following song. OUR FOREFATHERS' SONG. Composed in the year 1630, — author unknoion. New England's annoyances you that would know them,...Pray ponder these verses which briefly do show them. I. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good... | |
 | James Robinson Newhall - 1836 - 300 pages
...been written about this time, and exhibit some of the peculiar circumstances of the settlers : — The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where...below, Being commonly covered with ice and with snow. But if any is hardy and will it withstand, He forfeits a finger, a foot, or a hand. But when the spring... | |
 | James Robinson Newhall - 1836 - 296 pages
...this time, and exhibit some of the peculiar circumstances of the settlers: — The place where \ve live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting...and good > Our mountains and hills, and our valleys beinvv, Being commonly covered with ice and with snow. But if any is hardy and will it withstand, He... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1840 - 672 pages
...settlers. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where prass is much wanting that.s fruitful and Our mountains and hills, and our valleys below, Being commonly covered with ico and with snow. And when the north-west wind with violence blows. Then every man pulls his cap over... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...: New England*3 annoyances, you that would know them, Pray ponder these verm which briefly do ibow them. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that 's fruitful and good : Our mountains and hills and our valleys below Being commonly cover'd with... | |
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