The Ghosts: And Other LecturesC. P. Farrell, 1878 - 232 pages |
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Page 113 - A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon — a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity — and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where rest at last the ashes of that restless man. I leaned over the balustrade and thought about the career of the greatest soldier of the modern world. I saw him walking upon the banks of the Seine, contemplating suicide. I saw him at Toulon — I saw him putting down the...
Page 126 - ... mid the vine-clad hills. But know, your sweetest strains are discords all, compared with childhood's happy laugh — the laugh that fills the eyes with light and every heart with joy. O rippling river of laughter, thou art the blessed boundary line between the beasts and men ; and every wayward wave of thine doth drown some fretful fiend of care. O Laughter, rose-lipped daughter of Joy, there are dimples enough in thy cheeks to catch and hold and glorify all the tears of grief.
Page 224 - ... for a man who has preserved in Congress what our soldiers won upon the field ; a year in which...
Page 225 - Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Elaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the maligners of his honor. For the Republican party to desert this gallant leader now, is as though an army should desert their general upon the field of battle.
Page 115 - I like to think that love is eternal ; that if you really love the woman, for her sake, you will love her no matter what she may do; that if she really loves you, for your sake, the same...
Page 175 - The rights of all are equal: Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales, in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste : No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.
Page 175 - All who stand beneath our banner are free. Ours is the only flag that has in reality written upon it : Liberty, Fraternity, Equality — the three grandest words in all the languages of men. Liberty : Give to every man the fruit of his own labor — the labor of his hand and of his brain. Fraternity : Every man in the right is my brother. Equality : The rights of all are equal.
Page 126 - O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and dim, deft toucher of the organ keys ; blow, bugler, blow, until thy silver notes do touch and kiss the moonlit waves, and charm the lovers wandering 'mid the vine-clad hills. But know, your sweetest strains are discords all, compared with childhood's happy laugh— the laugh that fills the eyes with light and every heart with joy.
Page 223 - They demand a man whose political reputation is spotless as a star ; but they do not demand that their candidate shall have a certificate of moral character signed by a confederate congress. The man who has, in full...
Page 134 - If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven, it is when we pass a home in winter, at night, and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside, we see the family about the pleasant hearth ; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn; the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knives or somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast; the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy. I never passed...