The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1 |
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Archer arms asked beautiful believe Belle Bessie Lee Bessie's bless boys brother called Captain Lee cheek child Coit cried door duty Effie Effie's Eliot Lee exclaimed face fancy father fear feel fellow felt girl give glance glen hand happy head hear heard heart Heaven Helen Ruthven Herbert Linwood Hewson honour hope horse I-no Isabella Linwood Jasper Meredith Jupe Jupiter Kisel lady laugh Lee's letter light lips look Lord love-token madam mind Miss Linwood Miss Ruthven Misser Eliot mother nature ness never New-England New-York officers papa passed perceived portmanteau pretty rebel Rose Sam Lee seemed servant side Sir Henry Sir Henry Clinton sister sloop-of-war smile soon spirit sure tell Thank thing thought Eliot tion tone tory true turned voice Washington West Point Westbrook whig whiggism wood word Yankee young youth
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Page 123 - If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent.
Page 98 - Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion.
Page 36 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 36 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured.
Page 49 - I therein would have found issue. Hear me profess sincerely : had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Page 117 - Happy prince, worthy to begin with splendor or to close with glory a race of patriots and of kings, and to leave A name, which every wind to heaven would bear, Which men to speak, and angels joy to hear...
Page 10 - immortal names" have been introduced, with what propriety the reader must determine. It may be permitted to say, in extenuation of what may seem presumption, that whenever the writer has mentioned Washington, she has felt a sentiment resembling the awe of the pious Israelite when he approached the ark of the Lord.
Page 244 - To skelp an' scaud poor dogs like me, An' hear us squeel! Great is thy pow'r, an' great thy fame; Far kend an' noted is thy name; An' tho' yon lowin heugh's thy hame, Thou travels far; An' faith! thou's neither lag nor lame, Nor blate nor scaur. Whyles, ranging like a roarin lion For prey, a...
Page 17 - Bessie — a hundred and fifty poor wretches sacrificed, I have heard papa say. Is it true, Jupe, that their ghosts walk about here, and have been seen many a time when it was so dark you could not see your hand before your face ?"
Page 159 - A slight westerly breeze was now rising, which lifted and wafted the fog so that half the width of the river was suddenly unveiled, and Eliot descried a boat making towards the glen. ' By Heaven ! there they are ! ' he exclaimed ; ' follow me, Kisel ; ' and without entering the house, he ran to the stable close by. Fortunately, often having had occasion, during his visits at the glen, to bestow his own horse, he was familiar with the