Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee: With Selections from His Writings and Speeches |
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Page 306 - his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'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. 1
Page 325 - Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt; He only liv'd but till he was a man ; The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd, In the unshrinking station where he fought, But like a man he died. THE
Page 412 - O good old man ! How well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed I
Page 216 - them thy land with love far-brought From out the storied Past and used within the Present. Nobody will replace him. " In affairs of the nation he always from his youth took a deep interest and a vigorous, independent, thoughtful
Page 344 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors
Page 43 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.
Page 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!'
Page 81 - Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.
Page 144 - T will be recorded for a precedent, And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state.
Page 370 - This is that which we call Character — a reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means. " It works with most energy in the smallest companies and in private relations. In all cases it is an extraordinary and incomputable agent.