EutawDavid W. Newton University of Arkansas Press, 2007 - 558 páginas |
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... woman , rushed up to a level with the group , ascending the building from the side against which , as we remember , rested the two great logs of ranging - timber left unsawn . The movement was like that of light — a flight — a flash ...
... woman , rushed up to a level with the group , ascending the building from the side against which , as we remember , rested the two great logs of ranging - timber left unsawn . The movement was like that of light — a flight — a flash ...
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... woman , you lie ! " was the furious roar of the refugee captain . " Do I lie ! " exclaimed the woman . " Then prove it ! Throw your lug- gage open to search ; nay , only show the fine things that your villany offered to me when you ...
... woman , you lie ! " was the furious roar of the refugee captain . " Do I lie ! " exclaimed the woman . " Then prove it ! Throw your lug- gage open to search ; nay , only show the fine things that your villany offered to me when you ...
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... woman had said , the shadowy outlines of the dark hostile figures by which they were surrounded ; armed every man ; and , though few in number , but five or six in all , yet , under the circum- stances , ready and able to put in ...
... woman had said , the shadowy outlines of the dark hostile figures by which they were surrounded ; armed every man ; and , though few in number , but five or six in all , yet , under the circum- stances , ready and able to put in ...
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... woman . " " Harricane Nell is not so mad as people think her , " quoth one of the party , " and I'm mighty sorry that anything's driv ' her off from us . " " And do you mean that I drove her away ? " demanded Watkins . " Who is it that ...
... woman . " " Harricane Nell is not so mad as people think her , " quoth one of the party , " and I'm mighty sorry that anything's driv ' her off from us . " " And do you mean that I drove her away ? " demanded Watkins . " Who is it that ...
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... woman but a shetiger ! It was as much as I could do to keep from putting a bullet through her skull . " " And she seemed mighty nigh , cappin , to giving you a taste of her knife . " A laugh followed among the group whence this latter ...
... woman but a shetiger ! It was as much as I could do to keep from putting a bullet through her skull . " " And she seemed mighty nigh , cappin , to giving you a taste of her knife . " A laugh followed among the group whence this latter ...
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 |
Eutaw: A Sequel to The Forayers, Or The Raid of the Dog Days William Gilmore Simms Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
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 |