 West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain ; and away to the northward Blomidon rose, and the forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the...  Evangeline : a Tale of Acadie - Page 6by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 122 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - Maritime Provinces - 1888 - 396 pages
...mountains Sea-fogs pitehed their tents, and mista from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the hsppy valley, hut ne'er from their station descended. There, in the...of its farms, reposed the Acadian village. Strongly huilt were the honses, with frames of oak and of chestnut, Snch as the peasants of Normandy huilt in... | |
 | Richard Gilmour - Christian life - 1894 - 418 pages
...tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station 2. There, in the midst of its farms, reposed the Acadian...Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. Thatched were the roofs,... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 pages
...old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty go Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station descended. There, in the midst of its farms, reposod the Acadian village. Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Such... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians in literature - 1896 - 392 pages
...old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic M Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station...Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. These colonists came from... | |
 | English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station...Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. Thatched were the roofs,... | |
 | James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 252 pages
...old, and aloft on the mountains Sea fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty 5 Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station...Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. Thatched were the roofs,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 492 pages
...farms, reposed the Acadian village. Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. Thatched were the roofs, with dormer windows ; and 10 gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway.... | |
 | Charlotte Alice Baker - Deerfield (Mass.) - 1897 - 492 pages
...Doubtless some were built of logs and daubed with clay. Whatever the material, the form was the same ; "Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries." From the northern provinces of France, from Brittany, Normandy and Picardy, Canada was peopled. They... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...forest old, and aloft on the mountains Sea fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station...the Acadian village. Strongly built were the houses, Avith frames of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henrys.... | |
 | Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association - Deerfield (Mass.) - 1898 - 530 pages
...Doubtless some were built of logs and daubed with clay. Whatever the material, the form was the same: "such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries." From the northern provinces of France, from Brittany, Normandy and Picardy, Canada was peopled. They... | |
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