| Montgomery Gibbs - 1883 - 468 pages
...land, on the' shores of the Basin of Mlnas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand Pro" Lay in the fruitful valley, vast meadows stretched...eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number." And of the spot after its inhabitants had been exiled and the village destroyed,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy. C>C>C>C>C>CX->C>aa>C>CXX.>. ^cx^W ' PART THE FIRST. I. IN the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand- Pre' Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village... | |
| Isabel Moore - 1906 - 360 pages
...the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy. PART THE FIRST. I. In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,...eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut out... | |
| Wilfred Campbell, Thomas Mower Martin - 1907 - 622 pages
...in their character and manner of life from that depicted in Longfellow's beautiful Evangeline. " In the Acadian land on the shores of the basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand Pre Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its... | |
| Wilfred Campbell, Thomas Mower Martin - 1907 - 608 pages
...in their character and manner of life from that depicted in Longfellow's beautiful Evangeline. " In the Acadian land on the shores of the basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand Pre Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its... | |
| 1908 - 792 pages
...about Grand-Pré, where the cattle browse and men toil hard, the words of Longfellow come to mind In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pro Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast rneadmvs stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its... | |
| John Thomas Bealby - 1909 - 142 pages
...their homes at this time, that Longfellow tells us about in his beautiful poem of "Evangeline." " In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,...eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmer had raised with labour incessant, Shut out... | |
| William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 pages
...woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the PART THE FIRST. IN the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,...eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. 5 Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut... | |
| William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 426 pages
...of Love in Acadie, home of the happy. 198 Elson Grammar School Reader Book Four PART THE FIRST. IN the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,...eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. 5 Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut... | |
| M. A. Morse - 1909 - 132 pages
...part and parcel of the tempest. — J. Wilson. 56. In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre...eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. Dikes that the hand of the farmers had raised with labor incessant Shut out... | |
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