 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 pages
...not — the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall ! Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark,... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1853 - 424 pages
...? Where is the heartfelt worth and weight of soul, Which labor could not stoop, nor fear control ? 98 Where the known dignity, the stamp of awe, Which,...best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood ! How different would have been the aspect of the North and the South ; of the press, the pulpit, the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - History - 1853 - 116 pages
...until at last he reached the tomb. There, on the sullen shore, a mighty wreck, great Webster lies. Where the known dignity, the stamp of awe, Which,...best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood ! How different would have been the aspect of the North and the South; of the press, the pulpit, the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - History - 1853 - 128 pages
...dash corruption in her proud career, And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear." " Oh dumb lie passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted...best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood ! How different would have been the aspect of the North and the South ; of the press, the pulpit, the... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - Slavery - 1853 - 340 pages
...not — the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall ! Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven Fiend- goaded down the endless dark, From... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - Slavery - 1853 - 328 pages
...Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, -Befit his fall ! Oh ! dumb bo passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A-bright soul driven Fiend-goaded down the endless dark, From... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1855 - 464 pages
...? Where the known dignity, the stamp of awe, Which, half abashed, the proud and venal saw ? AVhere the calm triumphs of an honest cause ? — Where the...best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood ! How different would have been the aspect of the North and the South ; of the press, the pulpit, the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1855 - 646 pages
...? Where the calm triumphs of an honest cause ? — AVhere the delightful taste of just applause V ' Oh, lost alike to action and repose, Unwept, unpitied...best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood ! How different would have been the aspect of the North and the South ; of the press, the pulpit, the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...him not — the Tempter hath A suare for all! And pityina tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall. Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted np and led his age Falls hack in night. Scorn ! would the angels langh to mark A bright sonl driven,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...not, — the Tempter hath A snare for all ! And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall. Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From... | |
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Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow. 
