EutawDavid W. Newton University of Arkansas Press, 2007 - 558 páginas |
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Página 8
... reckon there's few of you that wouldn't rather keep his own money . It's not so much , the matter that's left us now to divide . But we'll take our satisfaction , I reckon , out of one of the rascals . Gather round , all of you , and ...
... reckon there's few of you that wouldn't rather keep his own money . It's not so much , the matter that's left us now to divide . But we'll take our satisfaction , I reckon , out of one of the rascals . Gather round , all of you , and ...
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... reckon . " " Yes , the case is mighty clear . Get up , Mat , and answer for yourself . Square round , boys , and make room . Let's hear the captain . " The culprit was bustled forward . The ropes were again wound about his wrists ...
... reckon . " " Yes , the case is mighty clear . Get up , Mat , and answer for yourself . Square round , boys , and make room . Let's hear the captain . " The culprit was bustled forward . The ropes were again wound about his wrists ...
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... reckon we shall hardly hear it for an hour yet . They'll want time to carry off all our we'pons and plunder , " was the growling speech of another of the gang , " Don't you believe it . Mad or not , and fierce as the devil when you ...
... reckon we shall hardly hear it for an hour yet . They'll want time to carry off all our we'pons and plunder , " was the growling speech of another of the gang , " Don't you believe it . Mad or not , and fierce as the devil when you ...
Página 27
... reckon they've got their spies listening to us now . Rhodes is a born scout ; Mat Floyd is first rate for spying . If they hear what we mean to do hereafter , they may change their minds and never give us a chance . We're in a fix , now ...
... reckon they've got their spies listening to us now . Rhodes is a born scout ; Mat Floyd is first rate for spying . If they hear what we mean to do hereafter , they may change their minds and never give us a chance . We're in a fix , now ...
Página 28
... to throw away an ounce bullet on an empty skull . But I see you're right . I'm glad of it , for it makes the work easy to - morrow . You all see what's to be done , I reckon . " It so happened that all did not see , and. 28 28 EUTAW.
... to throw away an ounce bullet on an empty skull . But I see you're right . I'm glad of it , for it makes the work easy to - morrow . You all see what's to be done , I reckon . " It so happened that all did not see , and. 28 28 EUTAW.
Contenido
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AFTERWORD | 495 |
APPENDICES | 513 |
Explanatory Notes | 520 |
Textual Notes and Emendations | 553 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 555 |
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Eutaw: A Sequel to the Forayers, Or The Raid of the Dog Days William Gilmore Simms Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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Términos y frases comunes
agin ain't American American Revolution answer army Avinger Ballou baron battle Bertha Travis Bram British British army Brunson camp cappin Captain Inglehardt Captain Travis captivity carriage Carrie Sinclair cavalry chaince Charleston Colonel Sinclair command Cooper river cried daughter dear Dick of Tophet dragoons Edisto Edisto River enemy Eutaw Springs eyes father fear feel Fitzgerald followed Forayers force girl hands hear heart Hell-fire Dick Henry Travis horse Jeff Rhodes Julien kaint keep ladies Lady Nelson leetle look Lord Edward Fitzgerald Lord Rawdon loyalist Marion Marjoribanks Mat Floyd maussa mighty Nelly Floyd never night old Rhodes Orangeburg partisans party pistol poor Porgy rascal rebels reckon River ruffian Santee Santee River scout seemed Simms's sleep soldier South Carolina suffer Sumter swamp tell thicket things troops watch Watkins William Gilmore Simms Willie Sinclair woman woods young
Pasajes populares
Página 531 - Tis morn; but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye Brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry! Few, few shall part, where many meet! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Página xxvii - Four Periods of American History" began about 1497 and ended about 1607; the second period was c. 1608 to 1763; and the fourth period, from the end of the Revolution to about mid-nineteenth century. He depicted all four periods in his fiction. See John Caldwell Guilds, Simms: A Literary Life (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992), 334-38. 3. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution was first published in 1835; Mellichampe: A Legend of the Santee in 1836; and The Scout; or, The Black Riders...
Página 479 - Keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them.' It occurs in Othello. Ah! what a masterpiece is that! It is such a history as belongs only to a warm climate, such as ours. Though, by-the-way, Inglehardt, this has been the longest winter I have ever known in Carolina.
Página xix - The Epochs and Events of American History, as Suited to the Purposes of Art in Fiction...
Página 530 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Página xxvii - The Sword and the Distaff; or, "Fair, Fat and Forty," A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution (retitled Woodcraft); The Golden Christmas: A Chronicle of St.
Página xx - Two months later he reported, "[Despite] a world of work accumulated, . . . my book clamors to me from a host of characters, half made up, that demand full development" (L, III, 361). Though Simms had always contemplated bringing his Revolutionary War series up through the historic battle of Eutaw, he did not determine until February 1855 (when he was "about one half" through the writing), that his "next Revolutionary novel" would be entitled "'The Forayers, or the Raid of the Dog Days: A Tale of...
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Eutaw: A Sequel to The Forayers, Or The Raid of the Dog Days William Gilmore Simms Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
Eutaw: A Sequel to The Forayers, or The Raid of the Dog Days David W. Newton Vista previa limitada - 2007 |