Yamoyden: A Tale of the Wars of King Philip: in Six Cantos

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James Eastburn, Clayton & Kingsland, Printers, 1820 - 356 strani
 

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Stran 288 - &c. This man, among the other offences laid to his charge, is said to have sold guns and powder to the natives. Wo to the worm whatever it be! " But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it
Stran 292 - too much solitude—which is either coact, enforced, or else voluntary." "Voluntary solitude is that which is familiar with melancholy, and gently brings on, like a Screw, a shooing horn, or some Sphinx^ to this irrevocable gulf. Most pleasant it is at first, to such as are melancholy given, to lie in bed whole
Stran 269 - and having staid about it for some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to pay this visit, and pursued their
Stran 291 - we may add, Some time before this, in a Clear, Still, Sunshiny Morning-, there were divers persons in Maiden who heard in the Air, on the South-East of them, a Great Gun go off, and presently thereupon the Report of Small Guns like Musket Shot, very thick discharging, as if there had been a Battei
Stran 61 - They say that afar in the land of the west, Where the bright golden sun sinks in glory to rest, Mid fens where the hunter ne'er ventured to tread. A fair lake unruffled and sparkling is spread ; Where, lost in his course, the rapt Indian
Stran 300 - a devout and zealous reformer, or rather restorer, of what he supposed was the ancient religion of the Indians. He made his appearance in his pontifical garb, which was a coat of bear-skins, dressed with the hair on, and hanging down to his toes, a pair of bear-skin stockings, and a great wooden face,
Stran 309 - See Carver, Charlevoix, History of Virginia, &c. "He advanced toward me with the instrument in his hand, that he used for music in his idolatrous worship, which was a dry tortoise shell, with some corn in it, and the neck of it drawn
Stran 49 - Be the visions that visit thee fairy and bright As the dew drops that sparkle around with the ray ! 0 soft flows the breath from thine innocent breast; In the wild wood, sleep cradles in roses thy head ; But her who protects thee, a wanderer unblest, He forsakes, or surrounds with his phantoms of dread.
Stran 255 - we ordered that Mount Hope, Pocasset, and several other necks of the best land in the colony, because most suitable and convenient for them, should never be bought out of their hands.' See Hubbard's Narrative, (where this important letter is inserted entire,) and Hazard, Coll. ii.
Stran 265 - He told Captain Church these were Philip's royalties, which he was wont to adorn himself with when he sat in state."—Church, p. 84. I have seen a cape, made of feathers, said to have been Philip's, and a pouch of the same materials, at Brown College, in Providence. The Antiquarian Society in Rhode-Island profess, I believe, to have his

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