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... look for greener graves ? Hope ye mercy still ? What's the mercy despots feel ! Hear it in that battle peal ! Read it on yon bristling steel ! Ask it - ye who will . Fear ye foes who kill for hire ? Will ye to your homes retire ? Look ...
... look for greener graves ? Hope ye mercy still ? What's the mercy despots feel ! Hear it in that battle peal ! Read it on yon bristling steel ! Ask it - ye who will . Fear ye foes who kill for hire ? Will ye to your homes retire ? Look ...
Page 61
... look , The war - denouncing trumpet took , And blew a blast so loud and dread , Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And , though sometimes , each dreary pause ...
... look , The war - denouncing trumpet took , And blew a blast so loud and dread , Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And , though sometimes , each dreary pause ...
Page 67
... Look closer ! scan that bare , sharp cliff on high ! Aha ! the wondrous shape bursts on thee now ! A perfect human face , neck , chin , mouth , nose , and brow ! 2. And full and plain those features are displayed , Thus profiled forth ...
... Look closer ! scan that bare , sharp cliff on high ! Aha ! the wondrous shape bursts on thee now ! A perfect human face , neck , chin , mouth , nose , and brow ! 2. And full and plain those features are displayed , Thus profiled forth ...
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... look closer " ? What is it to " scan " ? How does a " cliff " differ from a " crag " ? Why is this said to be " bare " ? Why " sharp " ? [ Do not forget its position . ] Meaning of " aha " ? What " shape " is meant ? Why " wondrous ...
... look closer " ? What is it to " scan " ? How does a " cliff " differ from a " crag " ? Why is this said to be " bare " ? Why " sharp " ? [ Do not forget its position . ] Meaning of " aha " ? What " shape " is meant ? Why " wondrous ...
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... looks like Franklin's ? Meaning of " trace " ? " physiognomy " , as here used ? What " face is meant in the third line ? Why " grave " ? Why " philo- sophic " ? Why is Franklin called " sage " ? Why should the Old Man be a " philosopher ...
... looks like Franklin's ? Meaning of " trace " ? " physiognomy " , as here used ? What " face is meant in the third line ? Why " grave " ? Why " philo- sophic " ? Why is Franklin called " sage " ? Why should the Old Man be a " philosopher ...
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Page 55 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roared ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside, And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, Help me, Cassius, or I sink.
Page 55 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 392 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 208 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 54 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life ; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 113 - Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 393 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 340 - For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world : For imposing taxes on us without our consent : For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses : For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province...
Page 226 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 251 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.