 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...that curtain may not rise ! Gal grant that on my vision never may he opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; o« States severed, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil fend-<, or^drenched, it may... | |
 | Robert Young Hayne - 1852 - 90 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds,... | |
 | John Whipple - 1852 - 48 pages
...that curtain may never rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time...him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments 34 of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1852 - 718 pages
...behold, for the last time, the snn in the heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union ! on States dissevered,...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,... | |
 | William T. Young - 1852 - 432 pages
...country—the contrast between our happy country, as she now is, and what she would be, were we looking on " the broken and dishonored fragments of a once...discordant, belligerent; on a land, rent with civil feuds, and drenched in fraternal blood!" Not only in his place in the Senate, has Gen. Cass labored to preserve... | |
 | William T. Young - 1852 - 440 pages
...country—the contrast between our happy country, as she now is, and what she would be, were we looking on " the broken and dishonored fragments of a once...discordant, belligerent; on a land, rent with civil feuds, and drenched in fraternal blood !" Not only in his place in the Senate, has Gen. Cass labored to preserve... | |
 | 1852 - 644 pages
...my eyes (hall lw turned to behold, for the l.ist time, the eun in heaven, may I not see him s'iining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious...discordant, belligerent ! — on a land rent with civil femls, or drenched, it may bc, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feebld and lingering glance rather... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 574 pages
...that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...stairways, as he pronounced in deepest tones of pathos these words of solemn significance : ' When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,... | |
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When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or... 
