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... wind had driven upon the Antilles about the year 1480. " M. Bellet declares the Basques to be the real dis- coverers of America ; and his contention is not unrea- sonable . But , going back to the Cabots , the narrative of Peter Martyr ...
... wind had driven upon the Antilles about the year 1480. " M. Bellet declares the Basques to be the real dis- coverers of America ; and his contention is not unrea- sonable . But , going back to the Cabots , the narrative of Peter Martyr ...
Page 47
... winds from the Crystal Hills , bent and undulated like endless webs of golden tapestries over- shot with the silver threads of the salt creeks that crept always with the lazy tides in and out their low levels . No doubt the tawny sands ...
... winds from the Crystal Hills , bent and undulated like endless webs of golden tapestries over- shot with the silver threads of the salt creeks that crept always with the lazy tides in and out their low levels . No doubt the tawny sands ...
Page 48
... of Maine , the sheets of their craft bellying with the odorous off - shore winds that have blown the same way ever since , while the aborigines skulked behind the giants of their primeval forests , or fled to 48 OLD YORK.
... of Maine , the sheets of their craft bellying with the odorous off - shore winds that have blown the same way ever since , while the aborigines skulked behind the giants of their primeval forests , or fled to 48 OLD YORK.
Page 58
... wind under the shadows of Strawberry Bank , or spread itself out over the yellow marshes of the Kittery shore . And then the speech of Saco Falls — " Down the sharp - horned ledges Plunging in steep cascade , Tossing its white - maned ...
... wind under the shadows of Strawberry Bank , or spread itself out over the yellow marshes of the Kittery shore . And then the speech of Saco Falls — " Down the sharp - horned ledges Plunging in steep cascade , Tossing its white - maned ...
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... winds , is prolific in sug- gestions of old wharves and warehouses , not as yet entirely eliminated from the landscape ; for some outline of their old foundations may be traced by the diligent observer ; and here was the scene of one of ...
... winds , is prolific in sug- gestions of old wharves and warehouses , not as yet entirely eliminated from the landscape ; for some outline of their old foundations may be traced by the diligent observer ; and here was the scene of one of ...
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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.