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Herbert Milton Sylvester. AUTHOR'S EDITION This edition is limited to one thousand copies printed from the face type . This is No. THE ROMANCE OF OLD YORK IS INSCRIBED TO THE HON.
Herbert Milton Sylvester. AUTHOR'S EDITION This edition is limited to one thousand copies printed from the face type . This is No. THE ROMANCE OF OLD YORK IS INSCRIBED TO THE HON.
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... face aglow with kindly interest ; for here all the gossip current was on tap , and the miller liked a bit of harmless chat as well as other folk ! I can see the old Pickering mill perched above its rude dam of logs that stopped for a ...
... face aglow with kindly interest ; for here all the gossip current was on tap , and the miller liked a bit of harmless chat as well as other folk ! I can see the old Pickering mill perched above its rude dam of logs that stopped for a ...
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... face of Nature , make .... 11 / YORK MARSHES speech for those who sound their deeps . When the mists drive down the river on the wind , and the rain beats the windows , then it is one thinks of those- " Doomed for a certain term to walk ...
... face of Nature , make .... 11 / YORK MARSHES speech for those who sound their deeps . When the mists drive down the river on the wind , and the rain beats the windows , then it is one thinks of those- " Doomed for a certain term to walk ...
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... face o'erwrit With mystic symbols , requisite , Marks slowly , ' side its dark , wainscoted wall , The waning moons , the sea - tide's rise and fall . No Whittier , rich in soulful rhymes And home - brewed ale of Truth was here ; Or ...
... face o'erwrit With mystic symbols , requisite , Marks slowly , ' side its dark , wainscoted wall , The waning moons , the sea - tide's rise and fall . No Whittier , rich in soulful rhymes And home - brewed ale of Truth was here ; Or ...
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... faces to keep an eye on the town - roofs , and on the town - folk so much given to human questionings and neighborly scrutinies . I know a clock on a certain stone church - tower that has ever for me a genuine human interest . Its black ...
... faces to keep an eye on the town - roofs , and on the town - folk so much given to human questionings and neighborly scrutinies . I know a clock on a certain stone church - tower that has ever for me a genuine human interest . Its black ...
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Agamenticus ancient Annethe Appledore Boon Island Boston Bray built Cabot Cape Cape Ann Capt Casco Bay Champernowne Chauncey's Creek church coast color Court Cove Cutt door doubt early England English father fish gable garrison house Gorgeana Gorges gray Harbor headlands hereabout Hill hither Hontvet Indian Island Light Isles of Shoals John John Bray John Cabot Kittery Point Lady Pepperrell land lived look M'Clary Maine Province manse Mary Massachusetts Bay meeting-house night old houses old Kittery old York once one's parish Pepperrell house person Piscataqua Piscataqua River Plymouth Portsmouth province of Maine quaint rocks romance roofs rude Saco sail sands savage says settlement settlers shadows Shapleigh ships shore skipper Smith Smutty Nose Sparhawk Spruce Creek Star Island stone story suggestive tavern things tide tion to-day town Trickey voyage wall Warehouse Point Wentworth wife William Pepperrell wind window witch woman woods York River
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Page 240 - RIDE. OF all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, — On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam's prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped...
Page 220 - Here Lies the Body of Mr XEHEMIAH ROY CE Who Departed This Life Feb (?)— AD 1791 In the both Year of His Age Behold and see, as you pass by As you are now, so once was I. As I am now so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 36 - ... to sail to all parts, countries, and seas of the east, of the west, and of the north...
Page 12 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 37 - Cabot, and he is styled the great admiral. Vast honour is paid him; he dresses in silk, and these English run after him like mad people, so that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides.
Page 203 - They rested there, escaped awhile From cares that wear the life away, To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay...
Page 276 - Cotton Mather came galloping down All the way to Newbury town, With his eyes agog and his ears set wide, And his marvellous inkhorn at his side ; Stirring the while in the shallow pool Of his brains for the lore he learned at school...
Page 297 - When the barley-harvest is ripe and shorn, And the dry husks fall from the standing corn; As long as Nature shall not grow old, Nor drop her work from her doting hold...
Page 169 - Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat and slips of yew Silver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab : Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,* For the ingredients of our cauldron.