The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from Ancient and Modern AuthorsBenjamin Dudley Emerson Richardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1830 - 321 páginas |
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... Soul in Virtue Consequence of Unhallowed Pleasures Extract from a Speech on the Judiciary The Crusader Echoes Claims of Africa Delineation of Missionary Objects Happiness Patriotic Exhortation Catholic Emancipation The same continued ...
... Soul in Virtue Consequence of Unhallowed Pleasures Extract from a Speech on the Judiciary The Crusader Echoes Claims of Africa Delineation of Missionary Objects Happiness Patriotic Exhortation Catholic Emancipation The same continued ...
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... soul is darkened with its fears for me . Trust me to Heaven , my husband ! -this , thy son , The babe whom I have borne thee , must be free ; And the sweet memory of our pleasant hearth May well give strength - if aught be strong on ...
... soul is darkened with its fears for me . Trust me to Heaven , my husband ! -this , thy son , The babe whom I have borne thee , must be free ; And the sweet memory of our pleasant hearth May well give strength - if aught be strong on ...
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... souls got so far into the English cabbage - stalks and cauliflowers , that we should show the least inclination that way ? Are our eyes so blinded ? Are our ears so deafened ? Are our hearts so hardened ? Are our tongues so faltered ...
... souls got so far into the English cabbage - stalks and cauliflowers , that we should show the least inclination that way ? Are our eyes so blinded ? Are our ears so deafened ? Are our hearts so hardened ? Are our tongues so faltered ...
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... soul above this sphere of earthliness ; Where silence , undisturbed , might watch alone , So cold , so bright , so still.- Ah ! whence yon glare , That fires the arch of heaven ? —That dark red smoke , Blotting the silver moon ? The ...
... soul above this sphere of earthliness ; Where silence , undisturbed , might watch alone , So cold , so bright , so still.- Ah ! whence yon glare , That fires the arch of heaven ? —That dark red smoke , Blotting the silver moon ? The ...
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... soul bursts from the frame of clay , Wrapt round its struggling powers . The grey morn Dawns on the mournful scene ; the sulphurous smoke . Before the icy wind slow rolls away , And the bright beams of frosty morning dance Along the ...
... soul bursts from the frame of clay , Wrapt round its struggling powers . The grey morn Dawns on the mournful scene ; the sulphurous smoke . Before the icy wind slow rolls away , And the bright beams of frosty morning dance Along the ...
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Página 71 - 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," God grant it, — God grant it!
Página 73 - 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 173 - once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone ? " — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Página 209 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 251 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear;— They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Página 73 - That close the pestilence, are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke, — Come in consumption's ghastly form — The earthquake shock — the ocean storm — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine — And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
Página 63 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Página 69 - Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history — the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill ; and there they will remain forever.
Página 136 - What the devil good can passion do? — Passion is of no service, you impudent, insolent, overbearing reprobate! — There, you sneer again! don't provoke me! — but you rely upon the mildness of my temper — you do, you dog! you play upon the meekness of my disposition! — Yet take care — the patience of a saint may be overcome at last!
Página 70 - 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.