A History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty : Containing, Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Published, Volumen2John Murray, 1821 - 372 páginas |
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Página 153 - Hell-gate, clad in their thunder and lightning gaberdines ; and lastly, the standardbearers and body-guards of Peter Stuyvesant, bearing the great beaver of the Manhattoes. And now commenced the horrid din, the desperate struggle, the maddening ferocity, the frantic desperation, the confusion and self-abandonment of war. Dutchman and Swede commingled, tugged, panted, and blowed.
Página 65 - Had you but seen him in this dress, How fierce he look'd and how big, You would have thought him for to be Some Egyptian porcupig : He frighted all, cats, dogs, and all, 85 Each cow, each horse, and each hog : For fear they did flee, for they took him to be Some strange outlandish hedge-hog.
Página 153 - Tanta-rar-ra-ra! twanged the trumpet of Antony Van Corlear until all voice and sound became unintelligible— grunts of pain, yells of fury, and shouts of triumph mingling in: one hideous clamor. The earth shook as if struck with a paralytic stroke; trees shrunk aghast, and withered at the sight; rocks burrowed in the ground like rabbits; and even Christina creek turned from its course, and ran up a hill in breathless terror! Long hung the contest doubtful; for though a heavy shower of rain, sent...
Página 74 - Chaunts forth his love-sick soul in madrigals. To manhood roused, he spurns the amorous flute, Doffs from his brawny back the robe of peace, And clothes his pampered limbs in panoply of steel. O'er his dark brow, where late the myrtle waved, Where wanton roses breathed enervate love, He rears the beaming casque and nodding plume ; Grasps the bright shield and ponderous lance, Or mounts with eager pride his fiery steed, And burns for deeds of glorious chivalry.
Página 113 - Vorst ; consisting of a huge oyster recumbent upon a sea-green field ; being the armorial bearings of his favorite metropolis, Communipaw. He brought to the camp a stout force of warriors, heavily armed, being each clad in ten pair of linsey-woolsey breeches, and overshadowed by broad-brimmed beavers, with short pipes twisted in their hatbands. These were the men...