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... less than twenty - six poems under the general heading of " Hymns to Astræa , " every one of which is an acrostic on the words Elisabetha Regina . Here is a single specimen : Earth now is green and heaven is blue ; Lively spring which ...
... less than twenty - six poems under the general heading of " Hymns to Astræa , " every one of which is an acrostic on the words Elisabetha Regina . Here is a single specimen : Earth now is green and heaven is blue ; Lively spring which ...
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... less epigrammatic form when he exclaimed in the Convention , " Dare ! that is the whole secret of revolutions . " Gambetta , however , marked the difference between the present republic and its predecessor by the follow- ing paraphrase ...
... less epigrammatic form when he exclaimed in the Convention , " Dare ! that is the whole secret of revolutions . " Gambetta , however , marked the difference between the present republic and its predecessor by the follow- ing paraphrase ...
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... less apparent in their successors of the present day . There is an opulence of phrase also which would indicate equal opulence of pocket , were personals charged for at the ruinous rates now current . Leaving out the question of expense ...
... less apparent in their successors of the present day . There is an opulence of phrase also which would indicate equal opulence of pocket , were personals charged for at the ruinous rates now current . Leaving out the question of expense ...
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... less ready was the answer , until at last I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations except the last . The one thing in which most of these good people agreed was the one thing in which I ...
... less ready was the answer , until at last I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations except the last . The one thing in which most of these good people agreed was the one thing in which I ...
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... less known , but is well worth quoting : Be dumb , ye dawdlers , whilst his spells confound The gathered - scattered - symphonies of sound ; Cymbals barbaric clang , cowed flutes complain , As the sharp , cruel clarion cleaves the ...
... less known , but is well worth quoting : Be dumb , ye dawdlers , whilst his spells confound The gathered - scattered - symphonies of sound ; Cymbals barbaric clang , cowed flutes complain , As the sharp , cruel clarion cleaves the ...
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Page 591 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 193 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 492 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 42 - This is life to come. Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony. Enkindle generous ardor , feed pure love. Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 297 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 204 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 246 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 164 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Page 47 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Page 274 - He spake ; and, to confirm his words, out-flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.