 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1810 - 218 pages
...his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heav'n o'er all the world beside ; His home I lie spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. And is the Negro outlaw'd from his birth ? Is he alone a stranger on the earth ? • Is there no shed,... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest гясе, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, Л dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man,...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend: Here woman reigns; the... | |
 | 1810 - 478 pages
...soul, Tbuch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole : For in this land of heaven's peculiar gntee, The 'heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, JL dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest; Where man, creation'« tyrant, casts Mid« i His swcrd and... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...the magnet of his soul, Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole; For in this landof heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race,...man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and scepire, pageantry and pride, While in his softened looks benignly blend ' The sire, the son, the husband,... | |
 | James Montgomery - Slave trade - 1814 - 178 pages
...the magnet of his soul, Toiich'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race,...His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in hig sol'tcn'd looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend: Here woman reigns... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Africa - 1814 - 396 pages
...in this land of Heav'n's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot on earth, supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than...looks, benignly blend, The sire, the son> the husband, brother, friend. Here woman reigns, the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 642 pages
...pleasures. " There is a land, of every land the pride, Belov'd by heaven o'er all the woild beside." " There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than ail the rest." Then, alter enlarging more fully on the subject, he continues : " Where shall that land,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In ev'ry clime the magnet of his soul, Touch'd by remembrance,...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride. While in his goften'd looks benignly blend Tne sire, the son, the hushand, father, friend : Here woman reigns; the... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that polii For in this land of heaven's peculiar gract*, The heritage of nature's noblest race ; There is a...the rest; Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside Mis sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his soflen'd looks benignly blend The sire, (he... | |
 | Marriage - 1818 - 166 pages
...keen the pang, when I recollected my father's house, so aptly expressed in the words of a poet : 28 *' There is a spot of earth supremely blest, " A dearer,...creation's tyrant casts aside " His sword and sceptre, pagantry and pride, " While in his softened looks benignly blend " The sire, the son, the husband,... | |
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There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest... 
