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Page 13
... standing by itself alone , so I hope " Ye Romance of Old York " may find its weak places strengthened by the remembrance of a friendship which the author reckons among the props by which his ambitions have been upheld . As to the making ...
... standing by itself alone , so I hope " Ye Romance of Old York " may find its weak places strengthened by the remembrance of a friendship which the author reckons among the props by which his ambitions have been upheld . As to the making ...
Page 70
... freight on the sands of Massachusetts Bay . Discovering themselves within the limits of the Gorges patent , they made haste to obtain " such freedom and liberty as might stand to their likings , " which was confirmed to them 70 OLD YORK.
... freight on the sands of Massachusetts Bay . Discovering themselves within the limits of the Gorges patent , they made haste to obtain " such freedom and liberty as might stand to their likings , " which was confirmed to them 70 OLD YORK.
Page 99
... stand in a white sheet , publickly in the Congregation at Agamenticus two several Sabbath Days , and likewise one day at this General Court when she shall be there- unto called by the Counsellors of this Province , ac- cording to his ...
... stand in a white sheet , publickly in the Congregation at Agamenticus two several Sabbath Days , and likewise one day at this General Court when she shall be there- unto called by the Counsellors of this Province , ac- cording to his ...
Page 107
... stands in York - the old jail . Any one passing over the old York highway must needs see it . It is " like a city set on a hill . ” One at a distance would take it for some antiquated relic , but upon a nearer view its solid oaken ...
... stands in York - the old jail . Any one passing over the old York highway must needs see it . It is " like a city set on a hill . ” One at a distance would take it for some antiquated relic , but upon a nearer view its solid oaken ...
Page 111
... huge chimney - stacks that stand aloof From sprawling elms that hide a low hip - roof . There are some old houses here in York , as in Kittery ; but not so many . Landlord Woodbridge had a tavern here in 1770 , whose sign bore OLD YORK 111.
... huge chimney - stacks that stand aloof From sprawling elms that hide a low hip - roof . There are some old houses here in York , as in Kittery ; but not so many . Landlord Woodbridge had a tavern here in 1770 , whose sign bore OLD YORK 111.
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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.