The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse from the Writings of Rhode-Island CitizensH. Fuller, 1841 - 364 Seiten |
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... pass ten thousand years away— Undying Spirit chained to clay , Immortal Thought entombed ! Can Hell bestow A fiercer woe Than this , through countless years to die and still to know ? Now centuries had past ; The funeral knell was o'er ...
... pass ten thousand years away— Undying Spirit chained to clay , Immortal Thought entombed ! Can Hell bestow A fiercer woe Than this , through countless years to die and still to know ? Now centuries had past ; The funeral knell was o'er ...
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... pass , and having worn their way along found an outlet below - Trenton , that spot of unrivalled beauty - the vast lakes which seem to open upon your astonished gaze , so far inland are you , like the great ocean itself - and finally ...
... pass , and having worn their way along found an outlet below - Trenton , that spot of unrivalled beauty - the vast lakes which seem to open upon your astonished gaze , so far inland are you , like the great ocean itself - and finally ...
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... pass " within the veil , " behind the Great Sheet of water where a single mis - step , or a moment's loss of self ... passes the brink of the crescent glittering like an ever - forming and majestic gem , in beautiful contrast with the ...
... pass " within the veil , " behind the Great Sheet of water where a single mis - step , or a moment's loss of self ... passes the brink of the crescent glittering like an ever - forming and majestic gem , in beautiful contrast with the ...
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... pass , as do the successive drops which compose that mighty volume of waters , into the dark , deep gulf ! How delighting , how cheering to the soul , that over that dark , deep gulf , has the Sun of Righteousness lighted up the rainbow ...
... pass , as do the successive drops which compose that mighty volume of waters , into the dark , deep gulf ! How delighting , how cheering to the soul , that over that dark , deep gulf , has the Sun of Righteousness lighted up the rainbow ...
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... pass away ! FROM A DISCOURSE , DELIVERED ON THE SECOND CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF PROVIDENCE . BY THE HON . JOHN PITMAN . It was in the summer of 1636 , that Roger Wil- liams , banished from Massachusetts , and warned ...
... pass away ! FROM A DISCOURSE , DELIVERED ON THE SECOND CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF PROVIDENCE . BY THE HON . JOHN PITMAN . It was in the summer of 1636 , that Roger Wil- liams , banished from Massachusetts , and warned ...
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ALBERT G ASHER ROBBINS battle BATTLE OF BENNINGTON beauty behold beneath Bishop Berkeley bosom breath breeze cataract character Charlie Machree charm cloud dark death deep delight divine earth eloquence Esek Hopkins evanescent fall fame fear feeling flowers forever freedom friends Gaspee gaze genius glory glowing Greece hand happiness hath heart heaven hills honor hues human imagination labor land laws liberty light living lofty look loveliness ment mighty mind moral mountain nation nature ne'er never night noble o'er ocean passed passions perfect philosophers pleasure poet poetry present principles Rhode-Island rocks ROGER WILLIAMS round scene shine shore smile soul spirit stand stood sublime sweet taste thee Theodorus Bailey thine things thou thought tion trembling TRISTAM BURGES true truth voice waters waves West Canada Creek WILLIAM HAGUE wings words ye'r
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Seite 32 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun • And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true...
Seite 263 - It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which Warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold...
Seite 232 - There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Seite 6 - It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and with some persons, to practise the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French and Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, (Mr. Milton) for my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages.
Seite 220 - Long labour, why, forgetful of his toils And due repose, he loiters to behold The sunshine gleaming as through amber clouds O'er all the western sky? Full soon, I ween, His rude expression and untutor'd airs Beyond the power of language will unfold The form of beauty smiling at his heart, How lovely!
Seite 33 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 18 - My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Seite 262 - ... cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good.
Seite 66 - O'ER a low couch the setting sun had thrown its latest ray, Where in his last strong agony a dying warrior lay, The stern old Baron Rudiger, whose frame had ne'er been bent By wasting pain, till time and toil its iron strength had spent* " They come around me here, and say my days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed and lead my band no more ; They come, and to my beard they dare to tell me now, that I, Their own liege lord and master born, — that I, ha ! ha ! must die.
Seite 249 - Man makes his fate according to his mind. The weak, low spirit, Fortune makes her slave: But she's a drudge, when hectored by the brave.