A Summer in the Wilderness: Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake SuperiorD. Appleton, 1847 - 208 sider |
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Side 16
... hill , and as the sky is blue , the figure stands out in the bold- est relief . Artistically speaking , this is a most daring effort of the pencil , but the artist has decidedly triumphed . In a picture called Setting out for the ...
... hill , and as the sky is blue , the figure stands out in the bold- est relief . Artistically speaking , this is a most daring effort of the pencil , but the artist has decidedly triumphed . In a picture called Setting out for the ...
Side 24
... hills , and on my right a solitary bluff which was as smooth on every side as the most highly cultivated lawn . The atmosphere was soft and of a rosy hue , and made me long for the wings of a dove that I might float away upon its bosom ...
... hills , and on my right a solitary bluff which was as smooth on every side as the most highly cultivated lawn . The atmosphere was soft and of a rosy hue , and made me long for the wings of a dove that I might float away upon its bosom ...
Side 37
... are all appar- ently broken hearted . In olden times they were a race of brave men and beautiful women , but now they prowl among their native hills a brotherhood of vagabonds , exceedingly poor 3 SUMMER IN THE WILDERNESS . 37.
... are all appar- ently broken hearted . In olden times they were a race of brave men and beautiful women , but now they prowl among their native hills a brotherhood of vagabonds , exceedingly poor 3 SUMMER IN THE WILDERNESS . 37.
Side 38
... hills a brotherhood of vagabonds , exceedingly poor and universally despised . And yet the white man who was the ... hill . It was so far elevated as to command a south- ern view of the Mississippi , extending at least a dozen miles ...
... hills a brotherhood of vagabonds , exceedingly poor and universally despised . And yet the white man who was the ... hill . It was so far elevated as to command a south- ern view of the Mississippi , extending at least a dozen miles ...
Side 40
... hills and islands were in deep shadow , and before me , far as the eye could reach , lay exposed the windings of the stream , which was brighter than a shield of burnished steel . So very still was the air around , that you might now ...
... hills and islands were in deep shadow , and before me , far as the eye could reach , lay exposed the windings of the stream , which was brighter than a shield of burnished steel . So very still was the air around , that you might now ...
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A Summer in the Wilderness: Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and ... Charles Lanman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1847 |
A Summer in the Wilderness: Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and ... Charles Lanman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1847 |
A Summer in the Wilderness: Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and ... Charles Lanman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1847 |
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abundant American Fur Company animal ascended Bannac beautiful behold bluffs bosom cabin canoe centre CHAPTER chief Chippeway Copper Harbor covered Crow-Wing deep deer distance dream ducks dwelling earth enemies fall fifty fish Fon du Lac forest furs glide handsome happy head heart hills History horses hour hundred feet hunting immense Indian inhabitants island Lake Pepin Lake Superior land living lodge lonely looked Michigan miles Mississippi morning Mound Builders night party pass perfect perfectly picturesque portage portion pounds Prairie Du Chien present principal region river river Raisin rocks rocky Saint Louis Saint Louis River SAULT SAINT MARIE scene scenery seen shore side Sioux sleep Spirit strange stream summer surrounding thing thousand trader traveller trees trout village volume warrior whole wigwams wild wilderness wind winter wonder woods
Populære avsnitt
Side 24 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Side 207 - Tis the dawn of the fairy day." IV They come from beds of lichen green, They creep from the mullen's velvet screen; Some on the backs of beetles fly From the silver tops of moon-touched trees, Where they swung in their cobweb hammocks high...
Side 207 - And stole within its purple shade. And now they throng the moonlight glade, Above, below, on every side. Their little minim forms arrayed In the tricksy pomp of fairy pride!
Side 201 - And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor can I deem that nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. For when his hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die.
Side 112 - ... canoes, that at first we took them to be large trees, which threatened to upset us. We saw also a hideous monster; his head was like that of a tiger, his nose was sharp, and somewhat resembled a wildcat ; his beard was long ; his ears stood upright ; the color of his head was gray ; and his neck black. He looked upon us for some time, but as we came near him our oars frightened him away.
Referanser til denne boken
Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines ... Larry Lankton Begrenset visning - 1999 |
"Time by Moments Steals Away": The 1848 Journal of Ruth Douglass Robert L. Root Begrenset visning - 1998 |