Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1Saunders and Otley, Conduit-Street., 1838 |
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... river , and the song of the sailors was heard , as they were warping our ship out of the dock . In a few minutes , we and the other passengers were requested to step on board . I first carried my flowers down to my state - room ...
... river , and the song of the sailors was heard , as they were warping our ship out of the dock . In a few minutes , we and the other passengers were requested to step on board . I first carried my flowers down to my state - room ...
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... river . The frame cottages , with their thatched verandahs , struck me as very pretty . I could not say much for the beauty of the corn , whose plants , long since stripped of their cobs , were standing yellow and dry , and fast ...
... river . The frame cottages , with their thatched verandahs , struck me as very pretty . I could not say much for the beauty of the corn , whose plants , long since stripped of their cobs , were standing yellow and dry , and fast ...
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... river . They do not share the taste of a gentle- man who , when I was there , actually made the steam - boat his place of abode during the entire summer season , sleeping on board at Albany and New York on alternate nights , and gazing ...
... river . They do not share the taste of a gentle- man who , when I was there , actually made the steam - boat his place of abode during the entire summer season , sleeping on board at Albany and New York on alternate nights , and gazing ...
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... river , and the solitary fish - hawk sailed slowly over the woods . I saw on the eastern bank , a wide flight of steps cut in the turf , leading to an opening in the trees , at the end of which stood a white house , apparently in deep ...
... river , and the solitary fish - hawk sailed slowly over the woods . I saw on the eastern bank , a wide flight of steps cut in the turf , leading to an opening in the trees , at the end of which stood a white house , apparently in deep ...
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... river . At five the sky was so thickly overspread with clouds , that the expedition to the house - top had to be aban- doned . The morning afterwards cleared , and I went alone down to Kosciusko's Garden . I loved this retreat at an ...
... river . At five the sky was so thickly overspread with clouds , that the expedition to the house - top had to be aban- doned . The morning afterwards cleared , and I went alone down to Kosciusko's Garden . I loved this retreat at an ...
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Page 274 - Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber.
Page 275 - To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats no longer ! It is accomplished.
Page 186 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Page 276 - True it is, generally speaking, that " murder will out." True it is that Providence hath so ordained, and doth so govern things, that those who break the great law of Heaven by shedding man's blood seldom succeed in avoiding discovery. Especially in a case exciting so much attention as this, discovery must come, and will come, sooner or later.
Page 71 - And earth; man, once descried, imprints for ever His presence on all lifeless things: the winds Are henceforth voices, wailing or a shout, A querulous mutter or a quick gay laugh, Never a senseless gust now man is born.
Page 276 - Meantime, the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself ; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labours under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a torment which it dares not acknowledge to God or man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance either from heaven or earth.
Page 275 - ... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death...
Page 45 - Wave not less proudly that their ancestors Moulder beneath them. Oh, there is not lost One of Earth's charms ! upon her bosom yet, After the flight of untold centuries, The freshness of her far beginning lies, And yet shall lie.
Page 274 - The circumstances, now clearly in evidence, spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet — the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon; he winds up the ascent...
Page 266 - ... themselves nor of each other, while they are watched by the groups of idlers and listeners around them; the newspaper corps, the dark Cherokee chiefs, the stragglers from the Far West, the gay ladies in their waving plumes, and the members of either house that have stepped in to listen; all these I have seen at one moment constitute one silent assemblage, while the mild voice of the aged chief-justice sounded through the court.