 | Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 430 Seiten
...hundred and twenty years." In the words of the old nursery tale, sung about a hundred years ago, — "He and his valiant soldiers did range the woods full...hardships they endured to quell the Indian's pride." In the shaggy pine forest of Pequawket they met the " rebel Indians," and prevailed, after a bloody... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1875 - 362 Seiten
...of wliich • LOVEWELL'S FIGHT. Of worthy Captain Lovewell I purpose now to sing, How valiantly be served his country and his king ; He and his valiant...hardships they endured to quell the Indian's pride. JTwas nigh unto Pigwacket, on the eighth day of May, They spied a rebel Indian, soon after break of... | |
 | Elias Nason - 1877 - 330 Seiten
...home," has been preserved. THE BALLAD OF CAPT. JOHN LOVEWELL'S FIGHT, AT PEQUAWKET. Of worthy Capt. Lovewell I purpose now to sing, How valiantly he served...full wide, And hardships they endured to quell the Indians' pride. II. 'T was nigh unto Pigwacket, on the eighth day of May, They spied a rebel Indian,... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1879 - 566 Seiten
...through the province. It is one of our earliest and best compositions of the kind. It commences : — " Of worthy Captain Lovewell, I purpose now to sing,...full wide, And hardships they endured to quell the Indians' pride." In 1730 the whole number of families in Dunstable was about fifty, and £90 were appropriated... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1879 - 534 Seiten
...: — " Of worthy Captain Lovewell, I purpose now to sing, How valiantly lte served his country aud his king ; He and his valiant soldiers did range the...full wide, And hardships they endured to quell the Indians' pride." In 1730 the whole number of families in Dunstable was about fifty, and £90 were appropriated... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1880 - 800 Seiten
...V.MTS afterwards was the most beloved song in all New England : 1. Of worthy Captain Lomedt I puipoje now to sing, How valiantly he served his country and...; He and his valiant soldiers did range the woods lull wide, And hardships they endured to queO the Indian's pride. 2. 'Twas nigh unto Pigwacket, on... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1882 - 396 Seiten
...probability, they assert to be the true and only rational way of enjoying the mountains. IV. LOVEWELL. Of worthy Captain Lovewell I purpose now to sing. How valiantly he served his country and his king. Old Ballad. LET us make a d6tour to historic Fryeburg, leaving the cars at Conway, which in former... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 560 Seiten
...their country. LOVEWELL'S FIGHT. [A Popular SaOad. Written thortty after the Battle of May 8th, 1725.] OF worthy Captain LOVEWELL, I purpose now to sing,...hardships they endured to quell the Indian's pride. 'Twas nigh unto Pigwacket, on the eighth day of May, They spied a rebel Indian soon after break of... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - 1889 - 538 Seiten
...chaplain for scalping Indians as well as killing them is suggestive. — EDITOR.] LOVEWELL'S FIGHT. OF worthy Captain Lovewell, I purpose now to sing,...hardships they endured to quell the Indian's pride. 'T was nigh unto Pigwacket, on the eighth day of May, They spied a rebel Indian soon after break of... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - 1889 - 546 Seiten
...LOVEWELVS FIGHT. OF worthy Captain Love well, I purpose now to sing, How valiantly he served hiscountry and his king ; He and his valiant soldiers did range...hardships they endured to quell the Indian's pride. 'T was nigh unto Pigwacket, on the eighth day of May, They spied a rebel Indian soon after break of... | |
| |
Twas nigh unto Pigwacket, on the eighth day of May, They spied a rebel Indian soon after break of day ; He on a bank was walking, upon a neck of land, Which leads into a pond, as we're made to understand. 
