 Desolate northern bays to the shores of tropical islands. Harvests were gathered in ; and wild with the winds of September Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old. with the angel. All the signs foretold a winter long and inclement. Bees, with...  Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie - Page 18by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1895 - 98 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1848 - 734 pages
...angels. Jacob's ladder on Mount Washington, must surely be more like the original. l " Wild with the winds of September Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the angel." The trees collectively could not have wrestled like Jacob, though any one of them might have been said... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...angels. Jacob's ladder on Mount Washington, must surely be more like the original. " Wild with the winds of September Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the angel." . The trees collectively could not have wrestled like Jacob, though any one of them might have been... | |
 | 1848 - 1390 pages
...Mount Washington, must surely be more like the original " Wild with the winds of September U' resiled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the angel." Fhe trees collectively could not hare wrestled like Jacob, though any one of ihom might have been said... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...Desolate northern bays to the shores of tropical islands. Harvests were gathered in ; and wild with the winds of September Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the angeL u Brought back the evening star to the sky, and the herds to the homestead. Pawing the ground they... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 pages
...northern bays, to the shores of the tropical islands. Harvests were gathered in ; and, wild with the winds of September, Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the angel." The picture of the Indian summer is finer still, with the exception of the conceit with which it closes... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 448 pages
...northern bays, to the shores of the tropical islands. Harvests were gathered in; and, wild with the winds of September, Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old icit/i, the angel." The picture of the Indian summer is finer still, with the exception of the conceit... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pages
...other sea-coast, and under any circumstances whatever, would have been. In another place, " with the f , v I؟ Ud h F lȟfT ux xM 6k q^ () su / ɉJ& A su" RO " Our last example of this painfully mistaken kind of illustration is from the death-bed of Gabriel,... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...other sea-coast, and under any circumstances whatever, would have been. In another place, " with the winds of September Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the angel." Our last example of this painfully mistaken kind of illustration is from the death-bed of Gabriel,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1852 - 346 pages
...northern bays, to the shores of the tropical islands. Harvests were gather'd in; and, wild with the winds of September, Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the angel." The picture of the Indian summer is finer still, with the exception of the conceit with which it closes:—... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 518 pages
...dreams, Had dropped her silver bow Upon the meadows low.§ Harvests were gather'd in ; and wild with the winds of September Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the Angel. || Bent, like a labouring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but not broken, by age was... | |
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