The Virginia Historical Reporter: Conducted by the Executive Committee of the Virginia Historical Society, Volym 2, Del 2; Volym 83committee, 1860 Vol. 1 contains 3 parts, each part having separate title-page and paging. |
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Sida 63 - OF old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet : Above her shook the starry lights : She heard the torrents meet. There in her place she did rejoice, Self-gather'd in her prophet-mind, But fragments of her mighty voice Came rolling on the wind. Then stept she down thro...
Sida 46 - How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.
Sida 38 - Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society. How strange that all The terrors, pains, and early miseries, Regrets, vexations, lassitudes interfused Within my mind, should e'er have borne a part, And that a needful part, in making up The calm existence that is mine when I Am worthy of myself!
Sida 72 - ... named Opachisco, to give her as his deputy in the church, and two of his sonnes to see the marriage solemnized, which was accordingly done about the fift of...
Sida 30 - It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness ; for, besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.
Sida 60 - For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Sida 63 - The fullness of her face — Grave mother of majestic works, From her isle-altar gazing down, Who, God-like, grasps the triple forks, And, King-like, wears the crown : Her open eyes desire the truth. The wisdom of a thousand years Is in them.
Sida 72 - Long before this time a gentleman, of approved behaviour and honest carriage, Maister John Rolfe, had bin in love with Pocahuntas, and she with him, which thing at the instant that we were in parlee with them...
Sida 69 - Powhatan's daughter I caused to be carefully instructed in the Christian religion, who, after she had made some good progress therein, renounced publicly her country's idolatry, openly confessed her Christian faith, was, as she desired, baptized, and is since married to an English gentleman...
Sida 71 - ... of them, and then, before we fought, our Drums and Trumpets should give them warnings. Upon which promise of ours, two of Powhatan's sonnes, being very desirous to see their sister, who was there present ashore with us, came unto us. At the sight of whom, and her...