Old Plymouth: A Guide to Its Localities and Objects of Interest |
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ancient ante-room AVERY & DOTEN Beach beautiful Billington Boston brick brook building built Burial Hill called Canopy Capt Chiltonville church Clark Clark's Island COLE'S HILL Cordage corner Cotton Court House descendants Edward Winslow Elder England entrance erected Fathers Faunce feet foot Forefathers four Governor granite grave grim ground Gurnet Howland hundred inches Indians inscription interest John Winslow Kingston laid land Leyden Street locality lots Main Street Manomet Market Street Massasoit Mayflower meeting memory Middle Street miles mill National Monument Old Colony OLD COLONY MEMORIAL Opposite original Patuxet Lake piece Pilgrim Hall Pilgrim Society pipe Plymouth Beach Plymouth Harbor Plymouth Rock Pond portrait present rear records reservoir Saquish shallop shore side South spot square Standish stands station stone summer tablet Thomas tower town trustees visitors Watson's Hill wharves William Bradford William Crow woolen
Popular passages
Page 67 - Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Page 7 - THE Pilgrim Fathers, — where are they? The waves that brought them o'er Still roll in the bay, and throw their spray As they break along the shore; Still roll in the bay, as they rolled that day When the Mayflower moored below. When the sea around was black with storms, And white the shore with snow.
Page 27 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 11 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstained what there they found, Freedom to worship God ! — FELICIA D.
Page 72 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Page 65 - But when it came to, the pilot was deceived in the place, and said the Lord be merciful unto them for his eyes never saw that place before; and he and the master's mate would have run her ashore in a cove full of breakers before the wind.
Page 73 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.
Page 74 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 51 - The houses are constructed of hewn planks, with gardens also enclosed behind and at the sides with hewn planks, so that their houses and courtyards are arranged in very good order, with a stockade against a sudden attack ; and at the ends of the streets there are three wooden gates. In the centre, on the cross street, stands the Governor's house, before which is a. square enclosure upon which fourpatereros [steen-stucken] are mounted, so as to flank along the streets.
Page 43 - ... voyage and unaccommodate condition brought upon them; so as there die sometimes two or three a day, of one hundred persons scarce fifty remain; the living scarce able to bury the dead, the well not sufficient to tend the sick ; there being in their time of greatest distress but six or seven, who spare no pains to help them ; two of the seven were Mr.