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... - If learning's yours , -gifts God doth least esteem , — Beyond all gifts was his transcendent view ; O realize his Pentecostal dream ! EMERSON . MI ISFORTUNE to have lived not knowing thee 1835-60 ] 19 AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT .
... - If learning's yours , -gifts God doth least esteem , — Beyond all gifts was his transcendent view ; O realize his Pentecostal dream ! EMERSON . MI ISFORTUNE to have lived not knowing thee 1835-60 ] 19 AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT .
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... dream to me . I am not in the least degree conscious of my ravings , of my fears , or of any terrible visions whatever ; but fancy my- self entirely composed , and that my sleep , in particular , is as sweet as that of a healthy ...
... dream to me . I am not in the least degree conscious of my ravings , of my fears , or of any terrible visions whatever ; but fancy my- self entirely composed , and that my sleep , in particular , is as sweet as that of a healthy ...
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... dreaming that , within the short period of one hundred years , their descendants would bear to be told by any orator , however popular , that the utterance of that principle was merely a rhetorical rhapsody ; or by any judge , however ...
... dreaming that , within the short period of one hundred years , their descendants would bear to be told by any orator , however popular , that the utterance of that principle was merely a rhetorical rhapsody ; or by any judge , however ...
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... dreams , when the very same little Ianthe Howard , dirty as ever , presented herself . She sat down and stared awhile without speaking , à l'ordinaire ; and then informed us that her mother " wanted Miss Doubleday to let her have her ...
... dreams , when the very same little Ianthe Howard , dirty as ever , presented herself . She sat down and stared awhile without speaking , à l'ordinaire ; and then informed us that her mother " wanted Miss Doubleday to let her have her ...
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... dreams at night . The red hatchet shall gleam in the horrid glare of your burning dwellings . From the east to the west , in the north and in the south , shall the loud cry of vengeance burst till the lands ye have stolen groan under ...
... dreams at night . The red hatchet shall gleam in the horrid glare of your burning dwellings . From the east to the west , in the north and in the south , shall the loud cry of vengeance burst till the lands ye have stolen groan under ...
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Page 465 - 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 430 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 368 - And for him who sat by the chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only, 'It might have been.' Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge ! God pity them both ! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these :
Page 476 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 427 - 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 401 - MY faith looks up to thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour Divine! Now hear me while I pray; Take all my guilt away ; Oh, let me, from this day, Be wholly thine!
Page 363 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace ; From my heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Page 478 - 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 139 - Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Page 159 - TF the red slayer think he slays, -*- Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.