Supplement to the Connecticut Courant: Containing Tales, Travels, History, Biography, Poetry, and a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Articles, Volume 3J.L. Boswell., 1832 |
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... spirit is already be of the account given of this beautiful road in yond thine influence ; and even these few the " Dai yman's Daughter , " yet I know the perishing remains , over which thou wouldst mpression , in my min 1 , has been ...
... spirit is already be of the account given of this beautiful road in yond thine influence ; and even these few the " Dai yman's Daughter , " yet I know the perishing remains , over which thou wouldst mpression , in my min 1 , has been ...
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... spirit of the autumn storm Spake bitter things . His wearied children slept , And he with head deelin'd sat listening long To the swoln waters of the Illinois , VOWS So tuneful pealed . But tenderly thy voice Dissolv'd the illusion ...
... spirit of the autumn storm Spake bitter things . His wearied children slept , And he with head deelin'd sat listening long To the swoln waters of the Illinois , VOWS So tuneful pealed . But tenderly thy voice Dissolv'd the illusion ...
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... spirit of the commonwealth . The nation went from one extreme to the other . It was in times like these , that Hale , in the few intervals of his public engagements , which he could com- embrace a wide diversity of topics , but all of ...
... spirit of the commonwealth . The nation went from one extreme to the other . It was in times like these , that Hale , in the few intervals of his public engagements , which he could com- embrace a wide diversity of topics , but all of ...
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... spirit of pervading love , O'er the wildest solitude . " Oh ! the seed was thrown these wastes among , In a blest and gracious hour ! For the lorn one rose , in heart made strong , By the lonely , loneliest flower ! ” leisure and ...
... spirit of pervading love , O'er the wildest solitude . " Oh ! the seed was thrown these wastes among , In a blest and gracious hour ! For the lorn one rose , in heart made strong , By the lonely , loneliest flower ! ” leisure and ...
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... spirit . I would therefore propose , Mr. Pres- many years , he added a manner of commun - ident , that without proceeding further in cating his tho'ts , peculiarly his own , in which this business at this time ; the Convention ...
... spirit . I would therefore propose , Mr. Pres- many years , he added a manner of commun - ident , that without proceeding further in cating his tho'ts , peculiarly his own , in which this business at this time ; the Convention ...
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Page 378 - They mount up to the heaven, They go down again to the depths : Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits
Page 392 - There are many more' shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possesed of them.
Page 473 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 129 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Page 432 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Page 169 - He proved them all — the doubt, the strife, The faint perplexing dread, The mists that hang o'er parting life, All...
Page 129 - The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Page 129 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Page 56 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 385 - t is given To wake sweet Nature's untaught lays; Beneath the arch of heaven To chirp away a life of praise. Then spread each wing Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing In yon blue dome not reared with hands.