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Updated: May 8, 2025
First among these great characters came Harvey Birch in 'The Spy', but Cooper's real triumph was Natty Bumppo, who appears in all five of the Leatherstocking Tales. This skilled trapper, faithful guide, brave fighter, and homely philosopher was "the first real American in fiction," an important contribution to the world's literature.
I feel a glow within me; I am born again. This is the poetry of life. Think of Cooper's novels, my dear." "Léon," she said fiercely, "how can you talk such wicked, infamous nonsense? To pass all night out of doors it is like a nightmare! We shall die!" "You suffer yourself to be led away," he replied soothingly. "It is not unpleasant here; only you brood. Come, now, let us repeat a scene.
Yet in the midst of her desolation, child as she was, she was sustained and comforted by the thought that she was suffering for doing right. When Ida failed to return on the appointed day, the Hardings, though disappointed, did not think it strange. "If I were her mother," said the cooper's wife, "and had been parted from her for so long, I should want to keep her as long as I could.
When Burke and Wills reached Cooper's Creek twenty years later, the horse was still grazing peacefully on the side of the stream, and looked up at the explorers with no more surprise or excitement than it would have shown if but twenty hours had passed since it last saw human faces. It had found air to breathe and water to drink and grass to nibble; what did it care about the world?
One of them found a cooper's mallet in the cooper's shop, where the men were left, and saying: "How exactly this will answer for the business," he made his way through the kneeling ranks to one of the most fervent of the converts, and struck him down.
All that was ever known to the world was that Eleazer Cooper had been killed in a fight with the pirates. In a little less than a year Mainwaring was married to Lucinda Fairbanks. As to Eleazer Cooper's fortune, which eventually came into the possession of Mainwaring through his wife, it was many times a subject of speculation to the lieutenant how it had been earned.
The least thing seems to make you jump. Mrs. Cooper's all of a twitter, and Laura silly girl is almost as bad. I suppose it's the weather being so quiet after yesterday's gale. For my own part I always do like a wind about. It seems company, particularly these long evenings if you're called on to go round the house by yourself."
Carr, with the calm of deadly fury, "so he goes to Cooper's Bluff with you when I'm away, does he?" Flavilla said: "He doesn't exactly go with us; but he usually comes there to sketch. He makes sketches for his newspaper." "Does he?" asked her father, grinding his teeth. "Yes," said Drusilla; "and he sketches so beautifully.
Why then did the citizens of Cooper's home village hold a mass meeting and pass resolutions to the effect that Cooper had rendered "himself odious to a greater portion of the citizens of this community," and why should Fraser's Magazine, three thousand miles away, call Cooper "a liar, a bilious braggart, a full jackass, an insect, a grub, and a reptile"? The cause is not far to seek.
I feel a glow within me; I am born again. This is the poetry of life. Think of Cooper's novels, my dear." "Leon," she said fiercely, "how can you talk such wicked, infamous nonsense? To pass all night out-of-doors it is like a nightmare! We shall die." "You suffer yourself to be led away," he replied soothingly. "It is not unpleasant here; only you brood. Come, now, let us repeat a scene.
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