 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 176 pages
...pines of therefore; List to a tale of love in Acadie, home of the happy. I. IN the Acadian laud, ou the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded,...pasture to flocks without number. Dikes, that the liauds of the farmers had raised with labour incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides; but at stated... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...we must make a few extracts from the poem. The following is a description of the village : — " la the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,...eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to Hocks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut out... | |
 | 1848 - 514 pages
...we must make a few extracts from the poem. The following is the description of the village : — " In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of...Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand- Pr6 Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 476 pages
...we must make a few extracts from the poem. The following is the description of the village : — " In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of...Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand- Pr£ Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1849 - 170 pages
...of love in Acadie. home of the happy. I. Ijf the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minna. Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre...Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labour incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated seasons the flood-gates Opened, and... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 380 pages
...the most striking traits of his mind. The opening is simple, and full of fine clear description. " In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of...flocks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the fanners had raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides : but at stated seasons the flood-gates... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...by the pines of the forest ; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy. PART THE FIRST. I. IN the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of...Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of GrandLay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name,... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1850 - 560 pages
...Evangeline is the daughter of Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre, a little village in the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas. She is thus described : — " Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...of the forest ; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.1 EVANGELINE. PART THE FIRST. I. IN the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of...Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of GrandPrg Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...the pines of the forest ; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy. 10 PART THE FIRST. I. IN the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of...eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to Socks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut out... | |
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Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. 
