Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee: With Selections from His Writings and Speeches |
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... friends , went behind the meeting - house , and endeavored , as I thought , to pick a quarrel with the carpenters ; I waited a good while , and at last it began . I will speak of nothing but what I saw and heard myself , because ...
... friends , went behind the meeting - house , and endeavored , as I thought , to pick a quarrel with the carpenters ; I waited a good while , and at last it began . I will speak of nothing but what I saw and heard myself , because ...
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... that famous part . Opportunely for him , there occurred in Boston a great outburst of enthusiasm for private theatricals ; many of his friends and of those younger than he were seized II MATTERS THEATRICAL: FAMILY RELATIONS.
... that famous part . Opportunely for him , there occurred in Boston a great outburst of enthusiasm for private theatricals ; many of his friends and of those younger than he were seized II MATTERS THEATRICAL: FAMILY RELATIONS.
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... friends pushed their enterprise vigorously . Later a complete little theatre was built on the Brookline estate of Mr. Cabot . In due time the name of the Varie- ties Theatre was adopted ; and a play - bill , dated 1857 , announces the ...
... friends pushed their enterprise vigorously . Later a complete little theatre was built on the Brookline estate of Mr. Cabot . In due time the name of the Varie- ties Theatre was adopted ; and a play - bill , dated 1857 , announces the ...
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... friends urged me to accept a similar compliment ; an event in the family prevented the dinner taking place , and I have always congratulated myself upon my escape . The fact is , that instead of a surplus , there is a deficit in my ...
... friends urged me to accept a similar compliment ; an event in the family prevented the dinner taking place , and I have always congratulated myself upon my escape . The fact is , that instead of a surplus , there is a deficit in my ...
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... friend , who has served his country faith- fully in peace and war , dies , — he was a boy playing on Cambridge Common to the end of my sophomore year ; a distinguished general passes away , like my friend , he was three years my junior ...
... friend , who has served his country faith- fully in peace and war , dies , — he was a boy playing on Cambridge Common to the end of my sophomore year ; a distinguished general passes away , like my friend , he was three years my junior ...
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actors admiration ancestors beautiful Boston brethren Brookline brother building Butler Cabot called captain character Charles Charles Kemble church citizens College Colonel Lee Copp's Hill death delightful Eliot Emerson England espontoon Faneuil Hall Fanny Kemble father feeling felt followed Fort Wagner fortune Free Soiler friends garden gave gentleman Governor Andrew graduates Hall happy Harvard Harvard College heart Henry Lee Higginson Hoar honor interest Jackson John Judge kindly King's Chapel knew labor Lee's lived look Lowell marched Massachusetts memory ment militia Miss Mugwumps natural never occasion officers party passed patriotic Phillips Phillips Brooks played political present President regiments remarkable seemed Senator soldiers speech spirit Street sympathy Theatre THEODORE LYMAN thought tion town traits Tremont Theatre Washington William Winthrop words wrote young youth
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Page 320 - 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 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.
Page 362 - 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.
Page 337 - The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Page 208 - 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?
Page 430 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Page 55 - 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.
Page 87 - 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.
Page 49 - 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.
Page 152 - 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.
Page 350 - 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!