Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina: With Additions and Explanatory Notes |
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Page 14 - O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 45 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 14 - Look, then, abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense; And speak, oh man! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, called aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his...
Page 30 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 36 - Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay. Alas, for Earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free...
Page 22 - Hitherto shall thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?
Page 14 - Ay! — but they bend to other powers, And other pardon sue than ours! See where yon barefoot abbot stands * And blesses them with lifted hands! Upon the spot where they have kneeled These men will die or win the field.
Page 78 - A considerable range of mountains extends north and south along the line which separates the counties of Buncombe and Haywood. From the west side of this extends a ridge which terminates near the head of Fines creek. A quarter of a mile from its western end, as one moves up it towards the east, is the locality referred to.
Page 27 - Politicians are not sunflowers, they do not turn on their god when he sets, the same look that they turned when he rose.
Page 78 - Between the Blue Ridge, which in North Carolina separates the waters falling into the Atlantic, from those discharged into the Mississippi, and the great chain on the Tennessee border, designated in its course by such names as Iron, Unaka and Smoky, there is an elevated plateau of more than two hundred miles in length, with an average breadth of fifty miles.