The Courtship of Miles Standish: Elizabeth: With Explanatory NotesHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1886 - 90 страници |
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30 linen American Authors answered John Alden battle beautiful beheld Bible Book Bradford Cæsar Captain of Plymouth cloud COURTSHIP OF MILES Dog of Flanders Duxbury Elizabeth Elizabeth Haddon England errand excellent Elder face Flanders flowers forest friendship garden Giles Corey grave hand Hannah the housemaid hath Hawthorne's heard heart HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hill Holbrook's Indian John Estaugh Joseph Julius Cæsar Kate Douglas Wiggin's Knight's Tale land laughed Leaflets light Longfellow looked Lord Lydia Maria Child Mayflower meadow Meanwhile Miles Standish musket night Nun's Priest's Tale o'er ocean Paper Pecksuot Pilgrims Plymouth woods poem praise Priscilla Puritan sacred sail Scripture Selected Shakespeare's silent smile snow Song of Hiawatha spake speak stood Street sweet tale thee Thereupon answered John thought translation Twice-Told Tales unto village voice Wattawamat Whittier William Mullins wind Winslow's woman words Writings of Eleven Young's Chronicles
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Страница 81 - Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness ; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Страница 23 - But as he warmed and glowed, in his simple and eloquent language, Quite forgetful of self, and full of the praise of his rival, Archly the maiden smiled, and, with eyes overrunning with laughter, Said, in a tremulous voice, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?
Страница 16 - Such was the book from whose pages she sang the old Puritan anthem, She, the Puritan girl, in the solitude of the forest, Making the humble house and the modest apparel of homespun Beautiful with her beauty, and rich with the wealth of her being...
Страница 11 - Thus made answer and spake, or rather stammered than answered : "Such a message as that, I am sure I should mangle and mar it; If you would have it well done, — I am only repeating your maxim, — You must do it yourself, you must not leave it to others...
Страница 16 - Open wide on her lap lay the well-worn psalm-book of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the music together, Rough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churchyard, Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses.
Страница 19 - Thereupon answered the youth: "Indeed I do not condemn you; Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. Yours is tender and trusting, and needs a stronger to lean on; So I have come to you now, with an offer and proffer of marriage Made by a good man and true, Miles Standish the Captain of Plymouth!
Страница 45 - Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship.
Страница 7 - In his journey, as he was crossing the Alps, and passing by a small village of the barbarians with but few inhabitants, and those wretchedly poor, his companions asked the question among themselves by way of mockery, if there were any canvassing for offices there; any contention which should be uppermost, or feuds of great men one against another. To which Caesar made answer seriously, "For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows, than the second man in Rome.
Страница 41 - Much endeared to them all, as something living and human; Then, as if filled with the spirit, and wrapt in a vision prophetic, Baring his hoary head, the excellent Elder of Plymouth Said, "Let us pray !" and they prayed, and thanked the Lord and took courage.
Страница 20 - Till at length she exclaimed, interrupting the ominous silence: "If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!