The Foresters: A Poem Descriptive of a Pedestrian Journey to the Falls of Niagara. E-book. Formato PDF Alexander Wilson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The Foresters.Sons of the city! ye whom crowds and noiseBereave of peace and Nature's rural joys,And ye who love through woods and wilds to range,Who see new charms in each successive change;Come roam with me Columbia's forests through,Where scenes sublime shall meet your wandering viewDeep shades magnificent, immensely spread;Lakes, sky-encircled, vast as ocean's bed;Lone hermit streams that wind through savage woods;Enormous cataracts swoln with thundering floods;The settler's (1) farm with blazing fires o'erspread;The hunter's cabin and the Indian's shed;The log-built hamlet, deep in wilds embraced;The awful silence of th' unpeopled waste:These are the scenes the Muse shall now explore,Scenes new to song, and paths untrod before.To Europe's shores renowned in deathless song,Must all the honours of the bard belong?And rural Poetry's enchanting strainBe only heard beyond th' Atlantic main?What though profuse in many a patriot's praise,We boast a Barlow's soul-exalting lays;An Humphreys blessed with Homer's nervous glow;And Freedom's friend and champion in Freneau;

The Translators Revived: A Biographical Memoir of the Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible. E-book. Formato PDF Alexander Wilson Mcclure   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The writers to whom the author of this book is most indebted for his biographical materials are Thomas Fuller and Anthony a-wood. The former, the wittiest and one of the most delightful of the old English writ ers,-and the latter one of the most crabbed and cyni cal. What has been obtained from them was gathered wherever it was sprinkled, in scattered morsels, over their numerous and bulky volumes. Beside what was furnished from these sources, numerous fragments have been collected from a wide range of reading, including every thing that seemed to promise any additional matter of information.