The Maine WoodsHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 328 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... bank with them . This picture will do to put before the Indian's history , that is , the history of his extinction . In 1837 there were three hundred and sixty - two souls left of this tribe . The island seemed deserted to - day , yet I ...
... bank with them . This picture will do to put before the Indian's history , that is , the history of his extinction . In 1837 there were three hundred and sixty - two souls left of this tribe . The island seemed deserted to - day , yet I ...
Pagina 14
... bank of the Penobscot . There was now no road further , the river being the only high- way , and but half a dozen log - huts confined to its banks , to be met with for thirty miles . On either hand , and beyond , was a wholly ...
... bank of the Penobscot . There was now no road further , the river being the only high- way , and but half a dozen log - huts confined to its banks , to be met with for thirty miles . On either hand , and beyond , was a wholly ...
Pagina 15
... bank , made for the purpose of log - rolling , where we got a sight of the river , always a rocky and rippling stream . The roar of the rapids , the note of a whistler- duck on the river , of the jay and chickadee around us , and of the ...
... bank , made for the purpose of log - rolling , where we got a sight of the river , always a rocky and rippling stream . The roar of the rapids , the note of a whistler- duck on the river , of the jay and chickadee around us , and of the ...
Pagina 17
... bank . One of the party , who entered the house in search of some one to set us over , reported a very neat dwelling , with plenty of books , and a new wife , just imported from Boston , wholly new to the woods . We found the East ...
... bank . One of the party , who entered the house in search of some one to set us over , reported a very neat dwelling , with plenty of books , and a new wife , just imported from Boston , wholly new to the woods . We found the East ...
Pagina 20
... bank of the Penobscot . So we collected on a point of the shore , that we might be seen , and fired our gun as a signal , which brought out his dogs forth- with , and thereafter their master , who in due time took us across in his ...
... bank of the Penobscot . So we collected on a point of the shore , that we might be seen , and fired our gun as a signal , which brought out his dogs forth- with , and thereafter their master , who in due time took us across in his ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Allegash arbor-vitæ asked Aster Bangor bank bark batteau birch black spruce boat called camp canoe Caucomgomoc Chesuncook Chesuncook Lake clearing Clintonia borealis common commonly companion dark dead dead-water distance ducks East Branch falls farther feet high feet long fire forest four Grand Lake ground half head heard Heron Lake hunter hunting inches Indian island killed Kineo Ktaadn land length Lilium Canadense logs look lumberers Mattawamkeag McCauslin meadow miles Millinocket moose moose-hide moose-meat Moosehead carry Moosehead Lake mountain Mud Pond night Oldtown once paddled Passadumkeag Penobscot perhaps pole Polis pork portage rain rapids river road rocks rocky rods seen shore side sight smooth sometimes soon spruce stood suncook Lake swamp thought told took trees trout Umbazookskus walked Webster Stream white-throated sparrow wild wilderness wind yellow birch
Populaire passages
Pagina 37 - Why should we yet our sail unfurl? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl; But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon.
Pagina 71 - Man was not to be associated with it. It was Matter, vast, terrific — not his Mother Earth that we have heard of, not for him to tread on, or be buried in — no, it were being too familiar even to let his bones lie there — the home, this, of Necessity and Fate. There was clearly felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man.
Pagina 213 - 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 65 - Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy, With purpose to explore or to disturb The secrets of your realm, but, by constraint Wandering this darksome desert, as my way Lies through your spacious empire up to light...
Pagina 82 - ... the inexpressible tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be midwinter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth; and blissful, innocent Nature, like a serene infant, is too happy to make a noise, except by a few tinkling, lisping birds and trickling rills ? What a place to live, what a place to die and be buried in!
Pagina 183 - 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 65 - The peculiarities of that spacious table-land on which I was standing, as well as the remarkable semi-circular precipice or basin on the eastern side, were all concealed by the mist. I had brought my whole pack to the top, not knowing but I should have to make my descent to the river, and possibly to the settled portion of the State alone, and by some other route, and wishing to have a complete outfit with me. But at length, fearing that my companions would be anxious to reach the river before night,...
Pagina 65 - The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains, — their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn.
Pagina 21 - In fact, the deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more intelligent, and, in one sense, less countrified do you find the inhabitants; for always the pioneer has been a traveller, and, to some extent, a man of the world...
Pagina 124 - ... changed into a pine at last ? No! no! it is the poet; he it is who makes the truest use of the pine, — who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane...