Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as They Existed Previous to the Revolution, Volumen2Dodd, Mead, 1901 - 269 páginas |
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abode admiration Albany American amuse ANNE GRANT appeared army attached Aunt Schuyler aunt's beautiful brother character charmed colonel consequence Cornelius Cuyler Cortlandt daughter dear Madam death delight Edinburgh esteem father favorite Flats friends garrison habits happy heard honor hope imagination Indians John kind King Hendrick knew Lady Laggan lakes land letter lived look Madame Schuyler Madame's manner married Memoirs mind Miss mode Mohawk Mohawk river mother Mount Annan Mungo Campbell native nature nephew never night occasion officers Oswego painful party peace Pearl Street person Philip Philip Schuyler pleasure Pontiac possessed province recollections regiment residence river ROBERT SOUTHEY scene Schuylerville Scotland seemed side singular Sir William Johnson sister society sorrow spirit strangers things thought tion took trees Upper Canada virtues William Penn winter wish wonted woods York young
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Página 276 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires!
Página 85 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when Nature rests. Oft, in her absence, mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Página 276 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 115 - French interest, ravages upon the frontiers of the different provinces. In many instances these children had been snatched away while their parents were working in the fields, or after they were killed. A certain day was appointed, on which all who had lost their children, or sought those of their relations, were to come to Albany in search of them; where, on that day, all Indians possessed of white children were to present them. Poor women, who had travelled some hundred miles from the back settlements...
Página 56 - Add to all this that the monarch smiled, clapped my head and ordered me a little basket, very pretty, and filled by the officious kindness of his son, with dried berries. Never did princely gifts, or the smile of royalty produce more ardent admiration and profound gratitude.
Página 20 - ... with his friends there; and when in Albany, received all manner of useful information from the worthy magistrate Cornelius Cuyler. Another point which this young Lycurgus of the camp wished to establish was that of not carrying anything that was not absolutely necessary. An apparatus of tables, chairs and such other luggage he thought highly absurd where people had to force their way with unspeakable difficulty, to encounter an army free from all such encumbrances.
Página 60 - The bull frogs, the harmless, the hideous inhabitants of the swamps, seemed determined not to be out-done, and roared a tremendous bass to this bravura accompaniment. This was almost too much for my love of the terribly sublime: some women, who were our fellow-travellers, shrieked with terror : and finally, the horrors of that night were ever after held in awful remembrance by all who shared them.
Página 57 - ... and ordered me a little basket, very pretty, and filled by the officious kindness of his son with dried berries. Never did princely gifts, or the smile of royalty, produce more ardent admiration and profound gratitude. I went out of the royal presence overawed and delighted, and am not sure but...
Página 24 - Schuyler waiting and breakfast ready ; he smiled and said he would not disappoint her as it was hard to say when he might again breakfast with a lady.
Página 15 - ... present advantages, were so obvious to him, that he laid the foundation of his future prosperity on the broad and deep basis of honorable dealing, accompanied by the most vigilant attention to the objects he had in view...