Blanche of Brandywine: Or, September the Eleventh, 1777. A Romance, Combining the Poetry, Legend, and History of the Battle of Brandywine |
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... beautiful valley , hallowed by legend and romance rising in all its bloom , before my eyes , do I , a young man , a Penn- sylvanian , an American author , inscribe this hoof of the battle - field , with your name . With all my heart ...
... beautiful valley , hallowed by legend and romance rising in all its bloom , before my eyes , do I , a young man , a Penn- sylvanian , an American author , inscribe this hoof of the battle - field , with your name . With all my heart ...
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... beautiful boy , all the time betrothed , ( that's th А и of the smiling land , that opened like. e delicate nich ever ling , and cross the marked his small descend- osed the n velvet , e breast , hich de . the Aid- ar corps d seemed hand ...
... beautiful boy , all the time betrothed , ( that's th А и of the smiling land , that opened like. e delicate nich ever ling , and cross the marked his small descend- osed the n velvet , e breast , hich de . the Aid- ar corps d seemed hand ...
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... eye ! " " Name him not , my uncle , name not the proud English lordling . He knelt to me - with proposals of dishonor he knelt to me ; and , as he knelt , 4 rose and fell with that beautiful pulsation which now avoids 15 ...
... eye ! " " Name him not , my uncle , name not the proud English lordling . He knelt to me - with proposals of dishonor he knelt to me ; and , as he knelt , 4 rose and fell with that beautiful pulsation which now avoids 15 ...
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... beautiful pulsation which now avoids and no the light ; and from the calm , open forehead to the small and chiss each look , every gesture , each motion of the soft and rounded limbs tended arm , the trembling fingers , the breast ...
... beautiful pulsation which now avoids and no the light ; and from the calm , open forehead to the small and chiss each look , every gesture , each motion of the soft and rounded limbs tended arm , the trembling fingers , the breast ...
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... beautiful ! oh , how beautiful ! -Such a face as visits the poet in his dreams - the artist in his reverie - a face where thought , and tenderness , and love and innocence , speak in the glance , in the blush , in the slightest look ...
... beautiful ! oh , how beautiful ! -Such a face as visits the poet in his dreams - the artist in his reverie - a face where thought , and tenderness , and love and innocence , speak in the glance , in the blush , in the slightest look ...
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Page 286 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 287 - But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him. Howe is as much deceived by you as the American cause is injured by you.
Page 66 - You see," said Mr. Pecksniff, passing the candle rapidly from roll to roll of paper, "some traces of our doings here. Salisbury Cathedral from the north. From the south. From the east. From the west. From the south-east. From the nor'-west. A bridge. An alms-house. A jail. A church. A powder-magazine. A wine-cellar. A portico. A summer-house. An ice-house. Plans, elevations, sections, every kind of thing. And this...