The Maine WoodsTicknor and Fields., 1864 - 328 pagina's |
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Pagina 82
... what a place to die and be buried in ! There certainly men would live forever , and laugh at death and the grave . There they could have no such thoughts as are associated with the village graveyard , that make a grave out of one of ...
... what a place to die and be buried in ! There certainly men would live forever , and laugh at death and the grave . There they could have no such thoughts as are associated with the village graveyard , that make a grave out of one of ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Allegash arbor-vitæ asked Aster baggage Bangor bank bark batteau birch black spruce boat called camp Canadensis canoe Caucomgomoc Chesuncook Chesuncook Lake clearing Clintonia borealis common commonly companion dark dead dead-water distance East Branch falls farther feet high fire forest four Grand Lake ground half head heard Heron Lake Houlton hunter inches Indian island Kineo Ktaadn land length Lilium Canadense logs look lumberers Maine woods maple Mattawamkeag McCauslin meadow miles Millinocket moose moose-hide moose-meat Moosehead carry Moosehead Lake morning mountain Mud Pond musquash night Oldtown once paddled Passadumkeag Penobscot perhaps pine pole Polis pork portage rain rapids river road rock rocky rods seen shore side smooth sometimes soon spruce swamp thought told took trees trout Umbazookskus walked Webster Stream white-throated sparrow wild wilderness wind yellow birch
Populaire passages
Pagina 17 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Pagina 251 - John's, and to and round the falls of the said river, either by boats, rafts, or other conveyance ; that when within the province of New Brunswick, the said produce shall be dealt with as if it were the produce of the said province ; that, in like manner, the inhabitants of the territory of the upper St.
Pagina 221 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, to wit, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of the St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Pagina 70 - Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untamable Nature, or whatever else men call it, while coming down this part of the mountain It is difficult to conceive of a region uninhabited by man.
Pagina 21 - Penobscot five or six springs in succession, but was now settled here to raise supplies for the lumberers and for himself. He entertained us a day or two with true Scotch hospitality, and would accept no recompense for it. A man of a dry wit and shrewdness, and a general intelligence which I had not looked for in the backwoods. In fact, the deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more intelligent, and, in one sense, less countrified do you find the inhabitants...
Pagina 160 - The kings of England formerly had their forests " to hold the king's game," for sport or food, sometimes destroying villages to create or extend them ; and I think that they were impelled by a true instinct. Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be " civilized off the face of the earth," — our forests, not to hold the king's...
Pagina 56 - Ktaadn presented a different aspect from any mountain I have seen, there being a greater proportion of naked rock rising abruptly from the forest ; and we looked up at this blue barrier as if it were some fragment of a wall which anciently bounded the earth in that direction.
Pagina 61 - Ten thousand fathom deep; and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud, Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him As many miles aloft: that fury stay'd. Quench'd in a boggy Syrtis, neither sea, Nor good dry land: nigh founder'd on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail.
Pagina 122 - The explorers and lumberers generally are all hirelings, paid so much a day for their labor, and as such they have no more love for wild nature than woodsawyers have for forests. Other white men and Indians who come here are for the most part hunters, whose object is to slay as many moose and other wild animals as possible.
Pagina 21 - If I were to look for a narrow, uninformed, and countrified mind, as opposed to the intelligence and refinement which are thought to emanate from cities, it would be among the rusty inhabitants of an old-settled country...