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...training, preparing for a time yet to come. In 1958 I met Maria, a lovely West Indian lady who became my first full-time girlfriend. There had been ... ...und my own apartment: a one-bedroom place with a bal­ cony on Central Park West. I pursued every woman who crossed my path as though I had been stran... ...of whom were in sync with either the rhythm of their excited hearts, the West Indian Steel Drum Band, the roving Dixieland Jazz En­ semble, or the m... ... said softly. Portola had sold the company to a Taiwanese compa­ ny called Ambrosia Bakery. I thought I would burst. The company I had visualized, es... ...a close associate of the great 20th-century psychologists Carl Rogers and Virginia Satir, characterizes people who learn to prevail over life's chal...

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...tion was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of the Cayuga. The whole country was then a wi... ... part of the United States to denote a traineau. It is of local use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The... ...ved as a soldier with reputation. On one occasion, while in command on the western frontier of Pennsylvania against a league of the French and Indians... ... in many of the native dialects. Thus we find Rappahannock as far south as Virginia. 127 James Fenimore Cooper jury you have received from Judge T em... ..., sir; and 184 The Pioneers at what table is he to receive his nectar and ambrosia?” “With Benjamin and Remarkable,” interrupted Mr. Jones; “you sore... ...e had filled the honorable station of sergeant-major to a dashing corps of Virginia cav- alry through much of the recent war. Another of these skeptic...

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...outh part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between Hopkinton and Southborough, through Fra... ... or Assabeth River, which has its source a little farther to the north and west, goes out at the northeast angle, and flowing between Bedford and Carl... ...her in the fields or higher on the bank were seen the purple Gerardia, the Virginian rhexia, and drooping neottia or ladies’ tresses; while from the m... ... Cummings, it may be, from highest noon till the red vesper sinks into the west. The fisherman, mean while, stands in three feet of water, under the ... ...s” about it, as they supposed, came all the beaver that was traded between Virginia and Canada,—and the Potomac was thought to come out of or from ver... ... HenryDavidThoreau with us. But the other happily passed a serene and even ambrosial or immortal night, and his sleep was dreamless, or only the atmos... ... rel, Sciurus striatus ( Tamias Lysteri, Aud.), sat upon the end of some Virginia fence or rider reaching over the stream, twirling a green nut with... ..., the better to prepare our selves for a loftier intimacy. Silence is the ambrosial night in the intercourse of Friends, in which their sincerity is ... ...s not fed like other men’s, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives a divine life. By the healthful and invigor...

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...d of Mr. Allan, secured admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Any glamour which may have attached to cadet life in Poe’s eyes... ... attached to cadet life in Poe’s eyes was speedily lost, for discipline at West Point was never so severe nor were the accommodations ever so poor. Po... ...er our chance to meet him.” On September 22, 1835, Poe married his cousin, Virginia Clemm, in Baltimore. She had barely turned thirteen years, Poe him... ... the comfort and happi- 9 V olume One ness their slender means permitted. Virginia died January 30, 1847, when but twenty-five years of age. A friend... ...an those of the different dialects of Germany; and the Y oung Queen of the West has also one of her own, of which some articulate rumor barely has rea... ...and left an orphan at an early age, he was adopted by Mr. Allan, a wealthy Virginian, whose barren marriage-bed seemed the warranty of a large estate ... ...etry of the outline are such as few poets ever attain. There is a smack of ambrosia about it. TO HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean ...

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...l standing, at the epoch of his entombment, in a vast plain of sand to the westward of Thebes. He recollected, however, (talking of the porticoes,) th... ...me an inexpressible charm: — O saw ye not fair Ines? She’s gone into the West, To dazzle when the sun is down, And rob the world of rest; She took... ...nts which induce in the Poet himself the poetical effect He recognizes the ambrosia which nourishes his soul in the bright orbs that shine in Heaven—i... ...a capacity for love! But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight, Into a western couch of thunder-cloud; And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees... ...me, And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you In setting my Virginia’s spirit free. My mother—my own mother, who died early, Was but ...

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... I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage,...

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...sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in th... ...ht, and I received orders to call the captain if the wind came out from the westward. About midnight the wind became fair, and having called the capt... ...Mar, of New York, and the brig Mermaid, of Boston. They were both steering westward, and were bound in for our ‘‘dear native land.’’ Thursday, ... ... tea night and morning; and glad enough we were to get it, for no nectar and ambrosia were sweeter to the lazy immortals, than was a pot of hot tea, ... ...n from all parts of the Union I met with; where New England, the Carolinas, Virginia, and the new West sat side by side with English, French, and Ger...