 The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.  Darton's Pictorial Pages - Pàgina 57Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Harvey Newcomb - 1837 - 120 pàgines
...furnished us : ' The winds bowled and ihe rain fell : The poor white man, weary with faligue, Sits under our tree: He has no mother to bring him milk, No woman to grind his corn. CHORDS. ' Pity the poor white man, He has no mother to bring him milk, No... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pàgines
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these : " The winds roared and the rains fell. — The poor...Chorus. Let us pity the white man : no mother has he to bring him milk : no wife to grind his corn."* ^. * TThese simple anil pathetic sentiments, have... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1840 - 262 pàgines
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words literally translated were these : ' The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...Chorus,' Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he,' &c. Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation the circumstance... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 536 pàgines
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. ' The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn. Cltorns. Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he, &c. &c." Trifling as this recital may appear... | |
 | Daniel Charles O'Connor - 1913 - 522 pàgines
...plaintive: and the words, literally translated were these: "The winds roared and the rain fell, when the poor white man, faint and weary, came, and sat under our tree." THE PERIOD.—RULE I.—When a sentence is complete in itself, and is neither connected in construction... | |
 | Vaquero (pseud.) - 1914 - 396 pàgines
...chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these : — " ' The winds roared, and the rains fell, The poor white...(Chorus) Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he.' " Troplc JATvlAT CA JBB WEST INDIES AND CENTRAL AMERICA h '-•* r Jj •ana I ,-,,ic°* Statute Miles... | |
 | Blair Niles - 1926 - 364 pàgines
...subject of their song whose air was sweetly plaintive. "The winds," they sang, "roar, and the rains fall. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat...mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man; no mother has he to bring him milk; no wife . . ." And so, Vastey argued,... | |
 | Blair Niles - 1926 - 360 pàgines
...subject of their song whose air was sweetly plaintive. "The winds," they sang, "roar, and the rains fall. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat...mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he to bring him milk; no wife . . ." And so, Vastey argued,... | |
 | 606 pàgines
...ran thus : — " The winds roared, and the rain fell ; the poor Mango Park and the little Moss-Jhwer. white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our...no mother to bring him milk ; no •wife to grind him corn. Clmnis : Let us pity the •white man ; no mother has he." Upon bidding the old woman farewell... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 pàgines
...a sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...mother to bring him milk; No wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man; No mother has he, etc. (P. 80 According to the Chadwicks the same facility... | |
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