EutawDavid W. Newton University of Arkansas Press, 2007 - 558 páginas |
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Página xxv
... young Henry Travis — quali- ties hitherto unsuspected in the makeup of the renegade outlaw . The " lingering seeds of humanity " which had lain " long dormant " in Dick of Tophet , however , did not cause Simms to spare him a violent ...
... young Henry Travis — quali- ties hitherto unsuspected in the makeup of the renegade outlaw . The " lingering seeds of humanity " which had lain " long dormant " in Dick of Tophet , however , did not cause Simms to spare him a violent ...
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... his judge full in the face . Floyd was a young fellow not more than twenty - three years of age , small and slight of person , swarthy of skin , with a dark , scowling and sullen aspect , and keen , but small black 10 EUTAW.
... his judge full in the face . Floyd was a young fellow not more than twenty - three years of age , small and slight of person , swarthy of skin , with a dark , scowling and sullen aspect , and keen , but small black 10 EUTAW.
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... young but unattractive . Her sister , Nelly or Ellen Floyd , otherwise " Hurricane Nell , " was a creature of dif- ferent stuff — quite an anomaly , in fact . We have seen her under wild conditions — conducting herself with the spirit ...
... young but unattractive . Her sister , Nelly or Ellen Floyd , otherwise " Hurricane Nell , " was a creature of dif- ferent stuff — quite an anomaly , in fact . We have seen her under wild conditions — conducting herself with the spirit ...
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... young Ancrum that she's thinking of . But only to believe that she seed his sperrit , rising up from the body , jest when I was a - stripping him ! " " I saw it ! I saw it ! There is not a star shining down upon us now , but can assure ...
... young Ancrum that she's thinking of . But only to believe that she seed his sperrit , rising up from the body , jest when I was a - stripping him ! " " I saw it ! I saw it ! There is not a star shining down upon us now , but can assure ...
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... young man scornfully . " I reckon you might ha ' tried for it , but you never would ha ' done it , and would only ha ' got your heads split for it , every twolegged man of you ! Nell's plan was the sen- sible one , and it sarved ...
... young man scornfully . " I reckon you might ha ' tried for it , but you never would ha ' done it , and would only ha ' got your heads split for it , every twolegged man of you ! Nell's plan was the sen- sible one , and it sarved ...
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
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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 |