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... country's wrongs , her duties , dangers , praise , Fire his full soul , and animate his lays . Immortal WASHINGTON with joy shall own So fond a fav'rite , and so great a son . ' A " ( Extract from the Critical Review for June , 1785.
... country's wrongs , her duties , dangers , praise , Fire his full soul , and animate his lays . Immortal WASHINGTON with joy shall own So fond a fav'rite , and so great a son . ' A " ( Extract from the Critical Review for June , 1785.
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... parent now no more- Let loose the hirelings of despotic power , Urg'd to keen vengeance their relentless ire , 5 10 15 And hop'd submission from their sword and fire . 20 As when dark clouds , from Andes ' tow'ring head.
... parent now no more- Let loose the hirelings of despotic power , Urg'd to keen vengeance their relentless ire , 5 10 15 And hop'd submission from their sword and fire . 20 As when dark clouds , from Andes ' tow'ring head.
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... fire and sword , Spread death around : where'er your eyes ye turn'd , Fled were the peasants , and the village burn'd . How did your hearts for others ' suff'rings melt ! What tort'ring pangs your bleeding country felt ! What ! when you ...
... fire and sword , Spread death around : where'er your eyes ye turn'd , Fled were the peasants , and the village burn'd . How did your hearts for others ' suff'rings melt ! What tort'ring pangs your bleeding country felt ! What ! when you ...
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... fire , intent on cares of state , Sublimely good , magnanimously great ! Protector of the rights of human kind , Weigh'd the dread contest in his royal mind , And bade his fleets o'er the broad ocean fly , To succour realms beneath ...
... fire , intent on cares of state , Sublimely good , magnanimously great ! Protector of the rights of human kind , Weigh'd the dread contest in his royal mind , And bade his fleets o'er the broad ocean fly , To succour realms beneath ...
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... fire , The rudest shock of fortune's storm to bear : Each ill to suffer ; every death to dare ; To rush undaunted in th ' advent'rous van , And meet the Britons , man oppos'd to man ; With surer aim repel their barb'rous rage ; 290 ...
... fire , The rudest shock of fortune's storm to bear : Each ill to suffer ; every death to dare ; To rush undaunted in th ' advent'rous van , And meet the Britons , man oppos'd to man ; With surer aim repel their barb'rous rage ; 290 ...
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Page 203 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 205 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 207 - Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain ; Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 301 - The royal band now ready stand, All ranged in dread array, sir, With stomach stout to see it out, And make a bloody day, sir. The cannons roar from shore to shore, The small arms make a rattle ; Since wars began I'm sure no man E'er saw so strange a battle. The rebel dales, the rebel vales, With rebel trees surrounded ; The distant woods, the hills and floods, With rebel echoes sounded.
Page 203 - Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Page 300 - The soldier flew, the sailor too, And scared almost to death, sir, Wore out their shoes to spread the news, And ran till out of breath, sir. Now up and down, throughout the town, Most frantic scenes were acted; And some ran here, and others there, Like men almost distracted. Some fire...
Page 209 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Page iii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 302 - A hundred men, with each a pen, Or more, upon my word, sir, It is most true, would be too few, Their valor to record, sir. " Such feats did they perform that day Against these wicked kegs, sir, That, years to come, if they get home, They'll make their boasts and brags, sir.
Page 205 - Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain...