 We listen to the chiefs in council ; we see the unexampled exhibition of female fortitude and resignation ; we hear the whisperings of youthful impatience, and we see, what a painter of our own has also represented by his pencil,! chilled and shivering...  The North American Review - Page 11edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
 | William Shaw Russell - Massachusetts - 1870 - 266 pages
...pencil, chilled and shivering childhood, houseless but for a mother's arms, couchless but for a mother-s breast, till our own blood almost freezes. The mild...and of BRADFORD ; the decisive and soldier-like air of STANDISH; the devout BREWSTER; the enterprising ALLERTON ; the general firmness and thoughtfulness... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...by which they gained immense sums. CS b. The mild dignity of Carver and of Bradford ; the decision and soldier-like air and manner of Standish ; the...the general firmness and thoughtfulness of the whole hand ; their conscious joy for dangers escaped ; their high religious faith, full of confidence and... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - Massachusetts - 1875 - 746 pages
...fortitude and submission, also, were not wanting ; and there, too, was " chilled and shivering childhood, houseless but for a mother's arms, couchless but for a mother's breast." From a " land to which they were never to return " the Pilgrims had come ; and " hither they had brought,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...see, what a painter of our own has also represented by his pencil,6 chilled and shivering childhood, houseless, but for a mother's arms, couchless, but...blood almost freezes. The mild dignity of CARVER and BRADFORD ; the decisive and soldierlike air and manner of STAJSTDISH ; the devout BREWSTER ; the enterprising... | |
 | 1877 - 974 pages
...ForefatherVday, in 1820, " The mild dignity of Carver and Bradford ; the decisive and soldier-like air of Standish ; the devout Brewster ;* the enterprising...the general firmness and thoughtfulness of the whole baud ; their conscious joy for dangers escaped ; their deep solicitude about dangers to come ; their... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 780 pages
...immediately after, the picture is flashed upon the imagination of "chilled and shivering childhood, houseless, but for a mother's arms, couchless, but for a mother's breast," — an image which shows that the orator had not only transported himself into a spectator of the scene,... | |
 | R. H. Howard, Henry E. Crocker - New England - 1879 - 512 pages
...hardships incident to their peculiarly hard destiny : — while " chilled and shivering childhood, houseless but for a mother's arms, couchless but for a mother's breast," came in for its share, too, of suffering and exposure. How providential, truly, that instead of such... | |
 | William W. Campbell - Cherry Valley (N.Y.) - 1880 - 330 pages
...There might be seen the old and infirm, and the middle aged of both sexes, and "shivering childhood, houseless but for a mother's arms, couchless but for a mother's breast." Around them at a short distance on every side, gleamed the watch-fires of the savages, who were engaged... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1881 - 650 pages
...represented by his pencil,! chilled and shivering childhood, houseless, but for a mother's arms, couchjess, but for a mother's breast, till our own blood almost...\ The mild dignity of CARVER and of BRADFORD; the decisive-find soldierlike air and manner of STANDISH ; the devout BREWSTER ; the enterprising ALLERTON... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1882 - 432 pages
...virtue and freedom invest their martyrsand we see, too, " chilled and shivering childhood, house less but for a mother's arms, couchless but for a mother's breast," till our own blood almost freezes. The readiness with which the orator compels out sympathies to follow his own is again illustrated in the... | |
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