Jottings of a Year's Sojourn in the South: Or, First Impressions of the Country and Its People; with a Glimpse at School-teaching in that Southern Land, and Reminiscences of Distinguished MenScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1859 - 310 páginas |
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... steamer for Vicksburgh , Mississippi . The levee , as we have said , is a paved limestone bank , running along the river for nearly three miles , and almost all this distance I saw a dense and nearly double row of steamers , with the ...
... steamer for Vicksburgh , Mississippi . The levee , as we have said , is a paved limestone bank , running along the river for nearly three miles , and almost all this distance I saw a dense and nearly double row of steamers , with the ...
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... steamer , some taken off ; all stir , noise , bustle , tustle , pulling , hauling , rallying , hallooing , doing all things and everything ; lifting , dragging , lugging , tugging , urging , driving and whipping cattle , horses , mules ...
... steamer , some taken off ; all stir , noise , bustle , tustle , pulling , hauling , rallying , hallooing , doing all things and everything ; lifting , dragging , lugging , tugging , urging , driving and whipping cattle , horses , mules ...
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... steamers and the levee . Passing Jefferson Barracks , down the river " aways , " I could not but think with sadness of the early death of young MASON , STEWART and ANDRUS , of Battle Creek , Michigan . Here they lie buried , with " No ...
... steamers and the levee . Passing Jefferson Barracks , down the river " aways , " I could not but think with sadness of the early death of young MASON , STEWART and ANDRUS , of Battle Creek , Michigan . Here they lie buried , with " No ...
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... steamers . Some rich soup leads - but let our Marseillese describe them : " You have grand table on the Mississippi steamers- grand 28 JOTTINGS OF A YEAR'S.
... steamers . Some rich soup leads - but let our Marseillese describe them : " You have grand table on the Mississippi steamers- grand 28 JOTTINGS OF A YEAR'S.
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... steamers- grand table - better than I get at the Astor House or St. Charles , New Orleans ; grand table . I travel up ... steamer is a miniature world afloat , or as our Kentuckian expresses it , " Should the world be deluged again , it ...
... steamers- grand table - better than I get at the Astor House or St. Charles , New Orleans ; grand table . I travel up ... steamer is a miniature world afloat , or as our Kentuckian expresses it , " Should the world be deluged again , it ...
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Aaron Burr asked banks Battle Creek beautiful bluffs boat Burr cabins called carriage charm chat chivalry clime Colonel McClung cotton COWLES MEAD enjoy eyes feet flowers forest gate gentleman give green ground halloo head heard homo genus horse HUGH MILLER land leaves looked Major W.'s Michigan Mike Mike Fink miles Miss Mississippi morning Nashville Military Academy negro never night North Northern Orleans overseer passed plantation plantation-house planter planter's wife pleasant porch Prentiss residence rich Ridge House riding river road rode saddle Satartia says scene school-house seated servant shade side sight sitting soon South Southern ladies Southron steamer stream teacher tell thing thought tion told town trees true valley Vicksburgh walk Willow Dale winter woods word Yankee Yazoo Yazoo City Yazoo river young lady
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Página 294 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose; The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Página 173 - As bees In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters : they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder!
Página 269 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 275 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Página 132 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Página 55 - His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew.
Página 16 - And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Página 55 - It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shutters, so that, though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out; an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.
Página 179 - WE knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
Página 16 - By its own weight made steadfast and immovable. Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold. And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.