Old Landmarks and Historic Fields of MiddlesexRoberts brothers, 1876 - 442 páginas |
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afterwards American ancient appeared arms army arrived artillery battery battle became Boston brick bridge British built Bunker Hill Burgoyne called Cambridge camp cannon Captain Charlestown Church Cobble Hill College Colonel Colony command Concord Congress Continental army Court Dorchester Heights enemy England English erected fire flag friends front Gage Gates Governor Greene ground guns Hall hand Harvard Harvard College honor horse hundred Indian Isaac Royall John John Stark Joseph Warren king's Knox lady Lechmere's Point letter Lexington lived Loammi Baldwin Lord Rawdon mansion Massachusetts Medford meeting-house ment military monument Morse Mount Auburn night officers passed President prisoners Prospect Hill Provincial Putnam redoubt regiment remains replied Revolution river road Royall Samuel says ship side siege of Boston soldiers standing Stark stood Street Sullivan tavern tion town troops Warren Washington Watertown William Winter Hill Winthrop Yankee yard
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Página 128 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Página 354 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night ; And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Página 39 - Leap out, leap out, my masters ; leap out and lay on load ! Let's forge a goodly anchor — a bower thick and broad ; For a heart of oak is hanging on every blow, I bode, And I see the good ship riding, all in a perilous road — The low reef roaring on her lee — the...
Página 328 - Lay her i' the earth : And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring ! I tell thee churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling.
Página 322 - I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn, Where a little headstone stood; How the flakes were folding it gently, As did robins the babes in the wood. Up spoke our own little Mabel, Saying,
Página 221 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Página 221 - Work; it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentleman, and a lover of Learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his Estate (it being in all about 1700.
Página vi - Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield...
Página 314 - The die is now cast; I have passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink — live or die — survive or perish, with my country, is my unalterable determination.