Maple Leaves: A Budget of Legendary, Historical, Critical, and Sporting Intelligence. [1st-7th Ser.]author, 1873 |
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Abbé amidst amongst army Audubon Baron beautiful bell birds blue Bob Symes brave British brother Cadieux called Canada Capt Captain Charles Le Moyne Charlesbourg Chevalier Chevalier de Troyes church colony command Company Corne D'Iberville daughter death Deerfield died Duck Eagle enemy England English Ensign father fire forest France Fraser French Canadians Frontenac garrison Governor Highlanders historian honor hundred Indians Iroquois Island Jacques Cartier John John Sewell killed King Lake land Lawrence Lieut Lieutenant Longueil Lotbinière Louis Louisbourg Lower Canada Loyalists married miles Montmagny Montreal Murray night officers parish party patriotic Philibert prisoners Province Quebec race Regiment Regis Repentigny returned river round Rouville Royal Saint savages Seigneur seigniory sent settlers shores shot Simcoe Stobo Thrush tion took Upper Canada Verchères Volunteers Warbler whilst William winter woods wounded young
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Seite 267 - THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry — and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Seite 240 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Seite 41 - Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates. They were all alike, they took everything they could carry, they burned, harried, violated, tortured and killed, until everything English was brought to the verge of ruin. Such however is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed...
Seite 268 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Seite 73 - I did send for a cup of tea (a China drink), of which I had never drunk before.
Seite 16 - Ever and aye, by shine and shower, Sixteen short howls, not over loud; Some say, she sees my lady's shroud.
Seite 224 - Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near.
Seite 96 - One end he tied around a beam, And then removed his pegs, And, as his legs were off, — of course, He soon was off his legs! And there he hung till he was dead As any nail in town, — For though distress had cut him up, It could not cut him down!
Seite 196 - How divine, The liberty, for frail, for mortal, man To roam at large among unpeopled glens And mountainous retirements, only trod By devious footsteps; regions consecrate To oldest time! and, reckless of the storm That keeps the raven quiet in her nest, Be as a presence or a motion — one Among the many there...
Seite 168 - OLD PUFF.' . . . Clergymen, have been known to send home a wedding party in despair, after a vain essay to gain from the bride and bridegroom a sound by way of name, which any known alphabet had the power of committing to paper \