Logan: A Family History ...H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1822 |
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agitated answer arms arose art thou avenger of blood awful battle beautiful bless blood blue bosom breath broke bugle rang child cold convulsive countenance creature cried Harold dared dark dead silence dear death deep delirious earth eyes face faint father feel feet fell felt fire flashed flashed fire forehead forever forgive Frederick Brown girl governour hair hand hath head heard heart heaven horrour horse husband Indian innocent instantly knew lady Elvira leaped light limbs lips Loena Logan look mortal murderer nature never once pale passed passion rebuke rold rolled seen shadow shivering shriek shuddered silence smile smoke soul sound speak spectre spirit stood stranger sublime tears tell terrible terrour thee thine thou art thought thrilling thunder tion tomahawk touch trembling turned unsub Vaudreuil voice war horse weep wept whole wild woman wounded young
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Pàgina 2 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Pàgina 42 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Pàgina 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Pàgina 170 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, • But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die...
Pàgina 167 - A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love, And beauty, all concentrating like rays Into one focus, kindled from above; Such kisses as belong to early days, Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move, And the blood's lava, and the pulse a blaze, Each kiss a heart-quake,— for a kiss's strength, I think it must be reckon'd by its length.
Pàgina 184 - Brothers ! let us talk together of Logan ! Ye who have known him, ye aged men! bear ye testimony to the deeds of his strength. Who was like him ? Who could resist him ? Who may abide the hurricane in its volley ? Who may withstand the winds that uproot the great trees of the mountain ? Let him be the foe of Logan. Thrice in one day hath he given battle. Thrice in one day hath he come back victorious. Who may bear up against the strong man — 'the man of war ? Let them that are young, hear me. Let...
Pàgina 206 - And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee!
Pàgina 179 - There shall he be lying. Her wing shall the eagle flap O'er the false-hearted; His warm blood the wolf shall lap, Ere life be parted. Shame and dishonour sit By his grave ever ; Blessing shall hallow it, — Never, O never ! CHORUS.
Pàgina 114 - The heart is like the sky, a part of heaven, But changes night and day too, like the sky ; Now o'er it clouds and thunder must be driven...
Pàgina 182 - The old men gathered about him — he leaned upon his sabre. Their eyes shone with admiration ; such heroic deportment, in one so young — a boy ! so intrepid ! so prompt ! so graceful! so eloquent, too! — for, knowing the effect of eloquence, and feeling the loftiness of his own nature, the innocence of his own heart, the character of the Indians for hospitality, and their veneration for his blood, Harold dealt out the thunder of his strength to these...