A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the republic. pt. 3. 1835-1860Edmund Clarence Stedman C. L. Webster, 1888 |
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... thee ! Thou wast the inspirer of a nobler life , When I with error waged unequal strife , And from its coils thy teaching set me free . Be ye , his followers , to his leading true , Nor privilege covet , nor the wider sway ; But hold ...
... thee ! Thou wast the inspirer of a nobler life , When I with error waged unequal strife , And from its coils thy teaching set me free . Be ye , his followers , to his leading true , Nor privilege covet , nor the wider sway ; But hold ...
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... thee victim of the Sisters ' choice , — Charming all others , dwelling still alone . They left thee thus disconsolate to roam , And scorned thy dear , devoted life to spare . Around the storm - tost vessel sinking there The wild waves ...
... thee victim of the Sisters ' choice , — Charming all others , dwelling still alone . They left thee thus disconsolate to roam , And scorned thy dear , devoted life to spare . Around the storm - tost vessel sinking there The wild waves ...
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... thee , nor silence , nor withstand . Thy trenchant and emancipating pen The patriot Lincoln snatched with steady hand , Writing his name and thine on parchment white , ' Midst war's resistless and ensanguined flood ; Then held that ...
... thee , nor silence , nor withstand . Thy trenchant and emancipating pen The patriot Lincoln snatched with steady hand , Writing his name and thine on parchment white , ' Midst war's resistless and ensanguined flood ; Then held that ...
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... thee - nay , be generous . MET . Then would ye pay back that which fifty snows ago ye received from the hands of my father , Massasoit . Your backs were turned towards the land of your fathers , and the son of the forest took ye as a ...
... thee - nay , be generous . MET . Then would ye pay back that which fifty snows ago ye received from the hands of my father , Massasoit . Your backs were turned towards the land of your fathers , and the son of the forest took ye as a ...
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... thee in his wigwam , and hast thou put a knife in the white man's hand to slay him ? The foul spirit has entered thee , and the pure blood of the Wampanoag has left thy veins . Thy heart is a lie . Thine eye cannot rest on the face of ...
... thee in his wigwam , and hast thou put a knife in the white man's hand to slay him ? The foul spirit has entered thee , and the pure blood of the Wampanoag has left thy veins . Thy heart is a lie . Thine eye cannot rest on the face of ...
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Page 482 - The power confided to me, will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion -no using of force against, or among the people anywhere.
Page 486 - States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
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Page 480 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Page 443 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Page 430 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 381 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!
Page 486 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, all persons held as slaves within any State or "designated part of a State, the people whereof shall "then be in rebellion against the United States, shall "be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 473 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 487 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.