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Page 342 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Page 114 - Majesty's orders and instructions, namely, that your lands and tenements, cattle of all kinds and live stock of all sorts are forfeited to the Crown, with all your other effects, saving your money and household goods, and you yourselves to be removed from this his Province.
Page 150 - THE LOONS Once ye were happy, once by many a shore, Wherever Glooscap's gentle feet might stray, Lulled by his presence like a dream, ye lay Floating at rest; but that was long of yore. He was too good for earthly men ; he bore Their bitter deeds for many a patient day, And then at last he took his unseen way. He was your friend, and ye might rest no more : And now, though many hundred altering years Have passed, among the desolate northern meres Still must ye search and wander querulously, Crying...
Page 283 - The finny shoals and myriads of the deep ; When freezing tempests back to Greenland ride, And day and night the equal hours divide ; True to the season, o'er our sea-beat shore, The sailing osprey high is seen to soar, With broad unmoving wing ; and circling slow, Marks each loose straggler in the deep below ; Sweeps down like lightning ! plunges with a roar ! And bears his struggling victim to the shore.
Page 119 - Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. Thatched were the roofs, with dormer-windows ; and gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the door-way. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles...
Page 119 - Then came the laborers home from the field; and serenely the sun sank Down to his rest, and twilight prevailed. Anon from the belfry Softly the Angelus sounded, and over the roofs of the village Columns of pale blue smoke, like clouds of incense ascending, Rose from a hundred hearths, the homes of peace and contentment.
Page 61 - The Brytons and Frenche men are accustomed to take fysshe in the coaste of these landes where is founde great plentie of Tunnyes.
Page 124 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
Page 107 - We cannot let them go just now ; their departure would render our neighbors too powerful ; we need them to erect our fortifications, and to provision our forts, till the English are powerful enough of themselves to go on, and they must not withdraw before a considerable number of British subjects be settled in their stead.