The Revolutionary Adventures of Ebenezer FoxMunroe & Francis, 1838 - 238 pàgines |
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Pàgina 218 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Pàgina 228 - Chorus Yankee Doodle, keep it up,, Yankee Doodle, dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy.
Pàgina 218 - An angel-guard of love and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. " Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found ? " Art thou a man ? — a patriot ? — look around ; O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy Country, and that spot thy Home.
Pàgina 205 - And when the earth shall now be shovelled on him, If that which served him for a soul were still Within its husk, 'twould still be dirt to dirt.
Pàgina 13 - Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit — appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free.
Pàgina 55 - The recruiting officer possessed the qualifications requisite to make the service appear alluring, especially to the young. He was a jovial, goodnatured fellow, of ready wit and much broad humor.
Pàgina 231 - Siah's underpinning; And father went as nigh again, I thought the deuce was in him. Cousin...
Pàgina 97 - I now found myself in a loathsome prison, among a collection of the most wretched and disgusting looking objects that I ever beheld in human form. Here was a motley crew, covered with rags and filth; visages pallid with disease, emaciated with hunger and anxiety, and retaining hardly a trace of their original appearance.
Pàgina 231 - And there we see a swamping gun, Large as a log of maple, Upon a deuced little cart, A load for father's cattle. And every time they shoot it off, It takes a horn of powder, And makes a noise like father's gun, Only a nation louder. I went as nigh to one myself, As Siah's underpinning; And father went as nigh again, I thought the deuce was in him.
Pàgina 55 - All means were resorted to, which ingenuity could devise, to induce men to enlist. A recruiting officer, bearing a flag and attended by a band of martial music, paraded the streets, to excite a thirst for glory and a spirit of military ambition. The recruiting officer possessed the qualifications requisite to make the service appear alluring, especially to the young.