Longfellow's Evangeline: kritische ausgabe mit einleitung, untersuchungen über die geschichte des englischen hexameters und anmerkungenC. Winter, 1905 - 177 pages |
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... hundred hearths , the homes of peace and contentment . Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers , - Dwelt in the love of God and of man . Alike were they free from Fear , that reigns with the tyrant , and envy , the vice ...
... hundred hearths , the homes of peace and contentment . Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers , - Dwelt in the love of God and of man . Alike were they free from Fear , that reigns with the tyrant , and envy , the vice ...
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... hundred Children's children rode on his knee , and heard his great watch tick . Four long years in the times of the war had he lan- 275 guished a captive , Suffering much in an old French fort as the friend of the English . Now , though ...
... hundred Children's children rode on his knee , and heard his great watch tick . Four long years in the times of the war had he lan- 275 guished a captive , Suffering much in an old French fort as the friend of the English . Now , though ...
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... hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning . Now from the country around , from the farms and the neighboring hamlets , Came in their holiday dresses the blithe Acadian peasants . Many a glad good - morrow and jocund laugh from ...
... hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning . Now from the country around , from the farms and the neighboring hamlets , Came in their holiday dresses the blithe Acadian peasants . Many a glad good - morrow and jocund laugh from ...
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... hundred hands upon the moun- tain and meadow , Seizing the rocks and the rivers , and piling huge shadows together . Broader and ever broader it gleamed on the roofs of the village , Gleamed on the sky and sea , and the ships that lay ...
... hundred hands upon the moun- tain and meadow , Seizing the rocks and the rivers , and piling huge shadows together . Broader and ever broader it gleamed on the roofs of the village , Gleamed on the sky and sea , and the ships that lay ...
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... hundred house - tops Started the sheeted smoke with flashes of flame inter- mingled . These things beheld in dismay the crowd on the shore and on shipboard . Speechless at first they stood , then cried aloud in their 625 anguish , " We ...
... hundred house - tops Started the sheeted smoke with flashes of flame inter- mingled . These things beheld in dismay the crowd on the shore and on shipboard . Speechless at first they stood , then cried aloud in their 625 anguish , " We ...
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Longfellow's Evangeline: Kritische Ausgabe mit Einleitung, Untersuchungen ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow No preview available - 2018 |
Longfellow's Evangeline: Kritische Ausgabe mit Einleitung, Untersuchungen ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow No preview available - 2018 |
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Acadian Akadier aloft andere Anmerkung Anmerkungen Atchafalaya auch Ausgabe Basil beauty bereits Bild Bilder Bonneville Buch daß denen Dichter Dichtung englischen Hexameters English erklärt erste ersten Evangeline Evangeline's farmer fehlt finden folgende forest Frage französischen Gabriel Gedankenstrich Gedicht geheftet genannten George Gilfillan Geschichte gibt gleamed Gleichnis Grand-Pré große großen Haliburton hand häufig heart heißt Herausgegeben hervor Hexa Holthausen Iliade Indian Jahre jetzt Kritiker kurz land Le Carillon Leben Leinwandband lesen London Longfellow Longfellow-Sieper Louisbourg maiden manches meadows Miles Standish Moowis morning Morsbach Namen namentlich neighboring night Nova Scotia o'er Onéota Philarète Chasles poem Poesie prairies priest Quellen Rhythmus river rose sagt Schilderungen seine shore Siehe silent sorrow sound Southern Literary Messenger später spirit Sprache Stelle stood Teil Übersetzung ursprüngliche Urteil Vergleich Verse Versen viel village waren Weise weniger Werke Westen Wort wurde Zeit zunächst
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Page 45 - Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated seasons the flood-gates Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows. 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 mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but...
Page 47 - Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows; But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of the owners; There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.
Page 137 - And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; 36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Page 98 - Then from a neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
Page 122 - IN that delightful land which is washed by the Delaware's waters, Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle, Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded. There all the air is balm, and the peach is the emblem of beauty, And. the streets still reecho the names of the trees of the forest, As if they fain would appease the Dryads whose haunts they molested.
Page 48 - Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them...
Page 89 - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Page 127 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Page 127 - Many a languid head, upraised as Evangeline entered, Turned on its pillow of pain to gaze while she passed, for her presence Fell on their hearts like a ray of the sun on the walls of a prison.
Page 130 - Still stands the forest primeval ; but under the shade of its branches Dwells another race, with other customs and language. Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile Wandered back to their native land to die in its bosom. In the fisherman's Cot the wheel and the loom are still busy ; Maidens still wear their Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun, And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story, While from its rocky caverns...