Katharine Walton; Or, The Rebel of DorchesterW.J. Widdleton, 1854 - 474 sidor |
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Katharine Walton; Or, The Rebel of Dorchester William Gilmore Simms Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1854 |
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affair answer Archy Campbell arms Bacchus Barry beauty better Blonay bosom Brewton Captain Furness Charleston Colonel Balfour Colonel Cruden Colonel Walton command companion cried danger dear Dorchester doubt dragoon duty dwelling enemy escape exclaimed eyes F. O. C. DARLEY father fear feel felt followed Frampton garrison give Griffin hands Harry Barry hear heard heart honor horse hour hurried Jamaica Kate KATHARINE WALTON knew lady Lance lieutenant look Lord Cornwallis loyalist M'Kelvey M'Mahon Mad Archy Madeira Major Proctor Marion matter Miss Walton Moll Harvey Monckton negro never night Oaks partisan party Paulina peril person Porgy possession prisoner rebel reply Rivington scarcely secret seemed seen Singleton smile soon South Carolina speak Stock suffer suppose sure surprise sword tell there's tion Vaughan widow Williamson woman words young
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Sida 4 - I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Sida 3 - They opened the way to historical studies among us— they suggested clews to the historian— they struck and laid bare to other workers, the veins of tradition which everywhere enriched our territory— they showed to succeeding laborers— far abler than myself— what treasures of materiel, lay waiting for the shaping hands of future genius. When...
Sida 3 - Walton" brings us to the city ; and a large proportion of the work, and much of its interest, will be found to consist in the delineation of the so.cial world of Charleston, during the Revolutionary period.
Sida 3 - The portraits are mostly of real persons. The descriptions of life, manners, customs, movements, the social aspects in general, have all been drawn from sources as unquestionable as abundant. The social reunions, in many instances, as described in the story, were real occurrences. The anecdotes, the very repartees, though never before in print, are gathered from tradition and authority.
Sida 2 - I summon to my aid the muse of local History — the traditions of our own home — the chronicles of our own section — the deeds of our native heroes — the recollections of our own noble ancestry."81 Of Woodcraft he boasted, "The humorists of 'Glen Eberley...
Sida 413 - You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Sida 10 - ... elevation. By the subversion of every trace of the popular government, without any proper civil establishment in its place, he, with a few coadjutors, assumed and exercised legislative, judicial, and executive powers over citizens in the same manner as over the common soldiery under their command. A series of proclamations was issued by his authority, which militated as well against the principles of the British constitution, as those of justice, equity, and humanity. For slight offences, and...
Sida 54 - Oaks' must know a new proprietor, and the servants — that is the worst thought — they will be scattered; they will be dragged off to the city, and made to work at the fortifications, and finally shipped to the West Indies.
Sida 167 - Here they might laugh and sport without apprehension. Here they might send up the wild song of the hunter or the warrior, nor dread that the echoes would reach unfriendly ears. Well might our fearless partisans give loose to their livelier impulses, and recompense themselves for the restraints of the past in a cheerful hilarity and play. There was a day of respite accorded to their toils, and their fires were gayly lighted, and their venison steaks smoked and steamed upon the burning coals, and their...
Sida 48 - Fill again ! and pledge me ! You have no objection to my sentiment?" " None at all ! It don't interfere with a single wish of mine. 1 don't know much about the young lady; but I certainly wish, in her case, as in that of all other unmarried young women, that she may soon find her proper sovereign.