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...and fancy’s glow - They sleep with him who sleeps below: And if thou mourn’st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher... ... befell: The Scots can rein a mettled steed, And love to couch a spear; St. George! a stirring life they lead, That have such neighbours near. T... ... rising wrath suppressed, Yet made a calm reply: “That boy thou thought’st so goodly fair, He might not brook the Northern air. More of his fate if... ...alie retired to God. XXIV. “T o stout Saint George of Norwich merry, Saint Thomas, too, of Canterbury, Cuthbert of Durham, and Saint Bede, For his sin... ...d On Susquehana’s swampy ground, Kentucky’s wood-encumbered brake, Or wild Ontario’s boundless lake, Where heart-sick exiles, in the strain, Recalled ...

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...saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws and portages, and the Yankee fur-t... ...ly near relative was a vanilla-fla- vored sister married to an optician in St. Paul. She had used most of the money from her father’s estate. She was ... ...e prisons, the charity bureaus, the employment agencies of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Trail- ing at the end of the line Carol was indignant at the prod... ...nese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She went home, and that was the beginning and end of her Bohemian ... ...ints of lavender and blue and silver. At supper he hinted his love for Sir Thomas Browne, Thoreau, Agnes Repplier, Arthur Symons, Claude Washburn, Cha...

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...terest. It may strike the novice as an anachronism to place vessels on the Ontario in the middle of the eighteenth century; but in this particular fac... ... greater portion of even the older States was rescued from the wilderness. Ontario in our own times has been the scene of important naval evolutions. ... ...The Tuscarora looked at the seaman with quiet superiority as he answered, “Ontario, like heaven; one sun, and the great traveller will know it.” “Well... ...t paint: them are his colors, Jasper, just as your craft on the lake wears St. George’s Cross, and the Frenchers set their table- cloths to fluttering... ...uty.” “The Sergeant’s daughter is right, and she is worthy of being honest Thomas Dunham’s child,” put in the Pathfinder. “Ah’s me, pretty one! many i... ... steer in this direction, for sixty or seventy miles will take us into the St. Lawrence, which the 189 James Fenimore Cooper French might make too ho... ...uscarora, how did you get that canoe, and why are you paddling towards the St. Lawrence instead of the gar- rison?” “Arrowhead can tell his own from t...

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...s it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen feet water.” —Thomas Edge’ s Ten V oyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchas. “In their way they ... ... fierce animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.” —Thomas Jefferson’ s Whale Memorial to the French Minister in 1778. “And pra... ...t and the most convenient opportuni- ties of witnessing their habitudes.” —Thomas Beale’ s His- tory of the Sperm Whale, 1839. “The Cachalot” (Sperm W... ... touching the grand belief; in that we all join hands.” “Splice, thou mean’st splice hands,” cried Peleg, drawing nearer. “Y oung man, you’d better sh... ... thou knowest, Peleg, what it is to have the fear of death; how, then, can’st thou prate in this ungodly guise. Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg. T... ...hoon on Japan, that same voyage when thou went mate with Captain Ahab, did’st thou not think of Death and the Judgment then?” “Hear him, hear him now,... ...r interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh- water seas of ours,—Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Su- perior, and Michigan,—possess an ocean-like exp... ... oar should be used, and no man must speak but in whispers. So seated like Ontario Indians on the gunwales of the boats, we swiftly but silently paddl...

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...ed to at least seven thousand men. They steered for the mouth of the river St. Lawrence. “Cotton Mather prayed most fervently for their success,” cont... ...gs were received that eight or nine of the vessels had been wrecked in the St. Lawrence, and that above a thousand drowned soldiers had been washed as... ...flag of France floating above. There were simi lar fortifications on Lake Ontario, and near the great Falls of Niagara, and at the sources of the Ohi... ...s leading his troops through the forest, or sailing in a flat boat on Lake Ontario, or sleeping in his tent, while the awful cataract of Niagara sent ... ...rs. One of the three, commanded by General Prideaux, was to embark on Lake Ontario and proceed to Montreal. The second, at the head of which was Sir J... ... of which was Sir Jeffrey Amherst himself, was destined to reach the river St. Lawrence by the way of Lake Champlain, and then go down the river to me... ...toryofGrandfather sChair CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X THOMAS HUT THOMAS HUT THOMAS HUT THOMAS HUT THOMAS HUT CHINSON CHINSON CHIN... ...In 1757,” said Grandfather, “after Shirley had been sum moned to England, Thomas Pownall was appointed gover nor of Massachusetts. He was a gay and ... ...o spend the remainder of its days in the inglorious obscurity of a garret. Thomas Hutchinson, Lieutenant gov ernor of the province, was told of Sir F...

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...ness, may be safely backed against Seven Dials, or any other part of famed St. Giles’s. The great promenade and thoroughfare, as most people know, is ... ...build it up again in wood and plaster; widen it a little; throw in part of St. John’s Wood; put green blinds outside all the private houses, with a re... ...CINNATI TO LOUISVILLE IN ANOTHER WESTERN STEAMBOAT; AND FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS IN ANOTHER. ST. LOUIS LEAVING C INCINNATI AT ELEVEN o’clock in ... ...n hear the watchword of the other country given. Thence we emerged on Lake Ontario, an inland sea; and by half past six o’clock were at Toronto. The c... ...er is at the end of his journey, which is performed by steamboat upon Lake Ontario, calling at Port Hope and Coburg, the lat ter a cheerful, thriving... ...Quapaw, and Shawnees, and Mr. James Gillespie, of the mercan tile firm of Thomas G. Allison and Co., of Maysville, Benton, County Ark, in which the l... ...ion for firing their guns on Sunday morn ing, in answer to those from the Ontario and Woodbury, and thereby much alarm was caused to the families of ...

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... agent, that had a vote upon my estate, ranked as a good vote for auld Sir Thomas Kittlecourt. But, to return to what I was saying, Luckie Howatson is... ...dill, Hinders witches of their will; Weel is them, that weel may Fast upon St. Andrew’s day. Saint Bride and her brat, Saint Colme and his cat, Saint ... ...e of 40 Guy Mannering magical origin? Or is it possible, as Bacon and Sir Thomas Browne admit, that there is some truth in a sober and regu- lated as... ...im to the county jail—and that cost me eneugh o’ siller—But I ken what Sir Thomas wants very weel—it was just sic and siclike about the seat in the ki... ...ties on either side. 62 Guy Mannering CHAPTER VIII. So the red Indian, by Ontario’s side, Nursed hardy on the brindled panther’s hide, As fades his s... ...e interest that uncertainty and misfortune can give. CHAPTER XXI. What say’st thou, Wise One?—that all-powerful Love Can fortune’s strong impediments ... ...Hatteraick growled through the recesses of the cave. “Hagel and donner!—be’st du?” “Are you in the dark?” “Dark? der deyvil! ay,” said Dirk Hatteraick...

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... Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau Where’er thou sail’st who sailed with me, Though now thou climbest loftier mounts, And f... ...this blossom on the bank of the Concord. After a pause at Ball’s Hill, the St. Ann’s of Concord voyageurs, not to say any prayer for the success of ou... ... a superfluous wonder, which Dr. Johnson expresses at the assertion of Sir Thomas Browne that “his life has been a miracle of thirty years, which to r... ...mrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less. Aubrey relates of Thomas Fuller that his was “a very working head, insomuch that, walking and... ...true But stands ‘tween me and you, Thou western pioneer, Who know’st not shame nor fear, 127 HenryDavidThoreau By venturous spirit driven... ... it is pleasant to read that when with his Indians he reached the shore of Ontario, they consumed two days in making two canoes of the bark of the elm...