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Page 104
... thought how the brave Would scorn those frail links ' twixt the tyrant and slave ! Then the songs from their lips fell so sad on my ear , Like a bird's in captivity , mingled with fear : I thought of the land where , from mountain to ...
... thought how the brave Would scorn those frail links ' twixt the tyrant and slave ! Then the songs from their lips fell so sad on my ear , Like a bird's in captivity , mingled with fear : I thought of the land where , from mountain to ...
Page 106
... thought , this beautiful and stupendous globe . Whenever we behold the possessors of bril- liant , of powerful intellect , let us note them as extraordinary , as gifted mortals , destined , sooner or later , to rise to the summit of ...
... thought , this beautiful and stupendous globe . Whenever we behold the possessors of bril- liant , of powerful intellect , let us note them as extraordinary , as gifted mortals , destined , sooner or later , to rise to the summit of ...
Page 114
... thought ran through his mind , he felt a cold chill run all over him . He had heard and read of people selling them selves to the old fiend , and enjoying great wealth while they lived , only to be burnt up with brimstone at last ...
... thought ran through his mind , he felt a cold chill run all over him . He had heard and read of people selling them selves to the old fiend , and enjoying great wealth while they lived , only to be burnt up with brimstone at last ...
Page 123
... thought he might do something for their good . So he told them to sit down , and tell why they came to him for such a purpose . The little boy began his story , and his sister began weeping ; but when the youngster men- tioned his ...
... thought he might do something for their good . So he told them to sit down , and tell why they came to him for such a purpose . The little boy began his story , and his sister began weeping ; but when the youngster men- tioned his ...
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... thought they had fairly caught us . " At the close of the war I received my dis- charge , came home , was married , and moved to Fishersville , and , whilst there , commanded a company of militia six years , and served as major of the ...
... thought they had fairly caught us . " At the close of the war I received my dis- charge , came home , was married , and moved to Fishersville , and , whilst there , commanded a company of militia six years , and served as major of the ...
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Page 151 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 18 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 125 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Page 109 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 179 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 78 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 153 - And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now, And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart...
Page 153 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 29 - We marched them into the woods off the road, and having used them as Regulators were wont to use such delinquents, we set fire to the cabin, gave all the skins and implements to the young Indian warrior, and proceeded, well pleased, towards the settlements.
Page 152 - DEATH OF AN INFANT. Death found strange beauty on that cherub brow, And dashed it out. There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip ; — he touched the veins with ice, And the rose faded. Forth from those blue eyes There spake a wishful tenderness, — a doubt Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence Alone can wear.