Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the Adventures of Porte Crayon [pseud.] and His CousinsHarper, 1857 - 300 páginas |
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Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the ... David Hunter Strother Visualização completa - 1871 |
Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the ... David Hunter Strother Visualização completa - 1857 |
Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the ... David Hunter Strother Visualização completa - 1871 |
Termos e frases comuns
admiration adventure Alum appearance arms Baucis and Philemon beautiful Berkeley Springs Blackwater Bob Johnson bridge Cæsar Canaan carriage cave cavern coachman Cousin Porte cried dark delighted Dindon distance Dora exclaimed eyes face fancy Fanny feet felt fire friends girls gwine half hand heard hero hill horses hundred Jones journey ladies laugh leave length light Longbow looked Lynchburg Mass Massanutten Mountain Mice's Minnie Miss Monticello morning mountain mule natural negro never night North Mountain observed party passed Peak PEAK OF OTTER Porte Crayon present quoth Ridge river road rock Sally Sally Jones scarcely seat seemed seen Shenandoah River shouted side sketches snow soul Springs Squire stalagmite Staunton stood stranger stream supper thing thought tion took towers town travelers trees turned Valley Virginia voice walk Warm Springs wild wonder young
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Página 137 - With wild surprise, As if to marble struck, devoid of sense, A stupid moment motionless she stood : So stands the statue that enchants the world ; So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. Recovering, swift she flew to find those robes Which blissful Eden knew not ; and, array'd In careless haste, th...
Página 219 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 161 - O woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 146 - But the kind hosts their entertainment grace With hearty welcome, and an open face; In all they did, you might discern with ease A willing mind and a desire to please.
Página 59 - Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Página 268 - Immediately under the mountain, which was covered with chamcedaphnes in full bloom, was a most beautiful river: beyond this an extensive plain, diversified with every pleasing object that nature can exhibit; and, at the distance of fifty miles, another ridge of still more lofty mountains, called the Great, or North Ridge,* which inclosed and terminated the whole.
Página 259 - When Moll and I helped Wildair up, No longer trim and jolly — "Feelst not, Sir Dick," says saucy Moll, "A Pious Melancholy?" THE LOAFER AND THE SQUIRE BY PORTE CRAYON The squire himself was the type of a class found only among the rural population of our Southern States — a class, the individuals of which are connected by a general similarity of position and circumstance, but present a field to the student of man infinite in variety, rich in originality. As the isolated oak that spreads his umbrageous...
Página 246 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 216 - Signor, non sotto l' ombra in piaggia molle , Tra fonti e fior, tra Ninfe e tra Sirene; Ma in cima all' erto e faticoso colle Della virtù , riposto è il nostro bene. Chi non gela e non suda , e non s' estolle Dalle vie del piacer, là non perviene.
Página 268 - Lost river, from its sinkingunder a mountain, and never appearing again. 7. A spring of a sulphureous nature, an infallible cure for particular cutaneous disorders. 8. Sixteen miles north-east of Winchester, a natural cave or well, into which, at times, a person may go down to the depth of 100 or 150 yards ; and at other times, the water rises up to the top, and overflows plentifully. This is called the ebbing aud flowing well, and is situated in a plain, flat country, not contiguous to any mountain...