Maine Pioneer Settlements ..., Volume 3W.B. Clarke Company, 1909 - Maine |
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Page 89
... wild and barbarous men and white bears . There are to be found in it plenty of birds and fish . In the following year he was ship- wrecked and did not return ; the same happened to his brother Michael in the next year . " On this map ...
... wild and barbarous men and white bears . There are to be found in it plenty of birds and fish . In the following year he was ship- wrecked and did not return ; the same happened to his brother Michael in the next year . " On this map ...
Page 91
... wild animals common to the country are drawn in with lifelike simplicity and truthfulness . It reminds one of the famous French miniature paintings . Kohl makes a drawing of a map from Ramusio , and originally drawn by Gastaldi of the ...
... wild animals common to the country are drawn in with lifelike simplicity and truthfulness . It reminds one of the famous French miniature paintings . Kohl makes a drawing of a map from Ramusio , and originally drawn by Gastaldi of the ...
Page 99
... wild teeming life of forest and field , are pictured in his text with minuteness and conscientious care . His descriptions of the natives , their mode of life , their dress , their occupations , their homes , their intercourse with each ...
... wild teeming life of forest and field , are pictured in his text with minuteness and conscientious care . His descriptions of the natives , their mode of life , their dress , their occupations , their homes , their intercourse with each ...
Page 152
... wild violets , a medley of weeds , or the softer pile of the grasses , and essays to read the story of these humble lives , which after all is but the story of " The meanest floweret in the vale , The simplest note that swells the gale ...
... wild violets , a medley of weeds , or the softer pile of the grasses , and essays to read the story of these humble lives , which after all is but the story of " The meanest floweret in the vale , The simplest note that swells the gale ...
Page 162
... wild beasts ; but with the sunlight and the wide sea before , these were like to be forgotten , unless it were the season BASKET ISLAND AND BREAKWATER Sytrackin of the palatable wild grape or of the abundant fruitage of the canes of the ...
... wild beasts ; but with the sunlight and the wide sea before , these were like to be forgotten , unless it were the season BASKET ISLAND AND BREAKWATER Sytrackin of the palatable wild grape or of the abundant fruitage of the canes of the ...
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Abenake aborigine acres Alger ancient Bagnall Black Point Blue Point Boaden Bonython Boston built cabin Cammock Cammock's Neck Cape Elizabeth Captain Casco Bay Casco Neck Champlain church Cleeve and Tucker Cleeve's coast colony court doubtless Drogeo Dunstan eastward England English Ferry fire fishing garrison Gorges Gorges patents grant Hakluyt hath haue Henry Jocelyn hither House Island Indian interest Isles of Shoals John Winter Kittery land later letter Levett lived located Lygonia Mackworth Maine Maine province marshes Massachusetts miles mill mouth Nature night occupancy once Owascoag patent Pemaquid perhaps Piscataqua Pond Prout's Neck province Puritan Richard Vines Richmond's Island Rigby road Robert Jordan Rocks romance rude Saco River sailed sands savages says Scarborough Scottow settlement settlers ship shore smokes Sokoki Sokoki Trail Spurwink story tide tion Trelawny verdure voyage waters wild winds Winnock's Neck Winter Harbor Winthrop woods
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Page 271 - Were I the Moor, I would not be lago : In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Page 124 - The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from sight before it set. A chill no coat, however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told.
Page 124 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, — A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winge'd snow...
Page 71 - T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow; The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover-farm; Or west, no thunder fear.
Page 67 - Country men, let not the meannesse of the word fish distaste you, for it will afford as good gold as the Mines of Guiana or Potassie, with lesse hazard and charge, and more certainty and facility.
Page 316 - And, round and round, over valley and hill, Old roads winding, as old roads will, Here to a ferry, and there to a mill; And glimpses of chimneys and gabled eaves, Through green elm arches and maple leaves...
Page 457 - God we might find them ; and we had rather trust Providence with our lives, yea, die for our country, than try to return without seeing them, if we might, and be called cowards for our pains.
Page 87 - tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS. It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET. Or like a whale? POLONIUS. Very like a whale.
Page 245 - I tell thee, gold is more plentiful there than copper is with us; and for as much red copper as I can bring, I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their...
Page 250 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...