A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss, Volume 2C. Scribner's sons, 1855 |
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... seemed , when I read it , more like his conversation when he was warmed up by social intercourse , than like a speech . " * The following extracts , given with such slight omissions and occasional substitution of official for personal ...
... seemed , when I read it , more like his conversation when he was warmed up by social intercourse , than like a speech . " * The following extracts , given with such slight omissions and occasional substitution of official for personal ...
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... seemed as if it would leap from battle to play , from play to battle ; and a good- ness , which said to me at least , " Let's you and I be friends ! " Spirit responded to spirit at the first sight without a 52 MEMOIR OF S. S. PRENTISS .
... seemed as if it would leap from battle to play , from play to battle ; and a good- ness , which said to me at least , " Let's you and I be friends ! " Spirit responded to spirit at the first sight without a 52 MEMOIR OF S. S. PRENTISS .
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... seemed to be wet , and they flapped and floundered in the dust . Webster rose , and yawned , and gaped a bad apology for not trying to entertain After awhile he was called on again , and he responded to the call by punning on the names ...
... seemed to be wet , and they flapped and floundered in the dust . Webster rose , and yawned , and gaped a bad apology for not trying to entertain After awhile he was called on again , and he responded to the call by punning on the names ...
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... seemed low down to us , because his thoughts were so large that , though high enough , if small , to be out of sight , they compassed us all about with their mighty shadows , and the very clouds of them were luminous with aurora - like ...
... seemed low down to us , because his thoughts were so large that , though high enough , if small , to be out of sight , they compassed us all about with their mighty shadows , and the very clouds of them were luminous with aurora - like ...
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... seemed to strike PRENTISS ' fancy , and it alone , as he told me , inspired him to speak . He rose and made one of his most powerful efforts . I remember his loftiness on that occasion , and I was the more proud of him because he always ...
... seemed to strike PRENTISS ' fancy , and it alone , as he told me , inspired him to speak . He rose and made one of his most powerful efforts . I remember his loftiness on that occasion , and I was the more proud of him because he always ...
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Page 562 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Page 502 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 502 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 579 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel „ While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 170 - Scylla bathing in the sea that parts 660 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore : Nor uglier follow the Night-hag, when call'd In secret riding through the air she comes, Lur'd with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 480 - On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Page 567 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found...
Page 240 - The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government.
Page 415 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Page 492 - In states there are often some obscure and almost latent causes, things which appear at first view of little moment, on which a very great part of its prosperity or adversity may most essentially depend. The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing...