Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck, Volume 2;Volume 86 |
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... feel tired as usual ; and after supper strolled out alone along the windings of a little stream about twenty yards wide , that skirts a narrow strip of green meadow , between the brook and the high mountain at a little distance . You ...
... feel tired as usual ; and after supper strolled out alone along the windings of a little stream about twenty yards wide , that skirts a narrow strip of green meadow , between the brook and the high mountain at a little distance . You ...
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... feel more bitterly the pangs of hunger and disease . " " Hast thou no home to shelter thee , no friends or kindred to relieve thy necessities , or administer to thy infirmities ? " " No , " replied the beggar ; " my house was con- sumed ...
... feel more bitterly the pangs of hunger and disease . " " Hast thou no home to shelter thee , no friends or kindred to relieve thy necessities , or administer to thy infirmities ? " " No , " replied the beggar ; " my house was con- sumed ...
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... feel its quietness in the midst of the awful judgment ) is suddenly roused by the sudden fall of one of their brethren ; some of them turn and see him struggling in the agonies of death . A moment before he was in the vigor of life ...
... feel its quietness in the midst of the awful judgment ) is suddenly roused by the sudden fall of one of their brethren ; some of them turn and see him struggling in the agonies of death . A moment before he was in the vigor of life ...
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... feel the immense inferiority of the most gifted warrior , whose ele- ments of thought are physical forces and physical obstructions , and whose employment is the combi- nation of the lowest class of objects on which a powerful mind can ...
... feel the immense inferiority of the most gifted warrior , whose ele- ments of thought are physical forces and physical obstructions , and whose employment is the combi- nation of the lowest class of objects on which a powerful mind can ...
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... feel it enjoined upon her humanity to counsel and protect you , and com- fort you , or she will manage an acquaintance be- tween you and some countess or baroness , who lodges with her , or at some neighbor's . I live now with a most ...
... feel it enjoined upon her humanity to counsel and protect you , and com- fort you , or she will manage an acquaintance be- tween you and some countess or baroness , who lodges with her , or at some neighbor's . I live now with a most ...
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Página 176 - Earth and her waters, and the depths of air— Comes a still voice— Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Página 176 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Página 198 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike -till the last armed foe expires ; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sires ; God — and your native land...
Página 354 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Página 33 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of .our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance,...
Página 177 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near...
Página 195 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 33 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Página 176 - So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone; the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.
Página 177 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread...