Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee: With Selections from His Writings and SpeechesLittle, Brown,, 1905 - 441 pagini |
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Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee: With Selections from His Writings and Speeches John Torrey Morse (Jr.) Vizualizare completă - 1905 |
Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee: With Selections from His Writings and Speeches John Torrey Morse Vizualizare completă - 1905 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
actors admiration ancestor beautiful Beverly Farms born Boston brethren Brookline brother Butler Cabot called Captain character charity Charles CHARLES DEVENS church citizens College Colonel Lee Copp's Hill death delightful duty Emerson England espontoon eyes Faneuil Hall Fanny Kemble father feeling felt followed fortune Free Soiler garden gave gentleman Governor Andrew Hall happy Harvard Harvard College heart Henry Atkins Henry Lee Higginson Hoar honor interest Jackson John John Winthrop Judge kindly King's Chapel knew labor Lee's lived look Lowell Massachusetts memory ment militia Miss Mugwumps natural neighbors never occasion officers old friend oration party passed patriotic Phillips played political present President regiments remarkable seemed soldiers speech spirit Street sympathy Theatre Theodore Lyman thought tion town traits Tremont Theatre William Winthrop words wrote young youth
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Pagina 202 - Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
Pagina 316 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Pagina 358 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Pagina 49 - It is time to be old, To take in sail: — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent.
Pagina 81 - And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way, That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone; Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.
Pagina 43 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Pagina 146 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Pagina 346 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!
Pagina 373 - O YE, whose cheek the tear of pity stains, Draw near with pious rev'rence, and attend ! Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, The tender father, and the gen'rous friend. The pitying heart that felt for human woe ; The dauntless heart that fear'd no human pride ; The friend of man, to vice alone a foe ; " For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side.
Pagina 379 - Character, — a reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.