 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...polii For in this land of heaven's peculiar gract*, The heritage of nature's noblest race ; There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest; Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside Mis sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his... | |
 | Marriage - 1818 - 166 pages
...when I recollected my father's house, so aptly expressed in the words of a poet : 28 *' There is a spot of earth supremely blest, " A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest ; " Where man, creation's tyrant casts aside " His sword and sceptre, pagantry and pride, " While in... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...and.dishonour'd vales ; Where Albion's rocks exult amidst the sea, Around the beauteous isle of Liberty ; — Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging...varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pridc, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside ; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...pole: For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, '" ( ' A dearer sweeter spot than all the rest." " Where shall that land, that spot ofear.th be found/ Art thou a man 2—a patriot?—look around?... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1821 - 294 pages
...dishonored vales ; Where Albion's rocks exult amidst the sea, Ground the beauteous Isle of Liberty ;. — Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging...supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. And is the JVegro outlawed from his birth ? Is he alone a stranger on the earth ? Is there no shed,... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...thought to the spot he has left, and his heart aches to return. Whilst he repines, he says There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beeide; Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And mildest moons emparadiee the night. " Where... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...distils, And all the air is love. Montgomery thus speaks of the pleasures of home : — There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his... | |
 | Matthews, Mr - Canada - 1823 - 272 pages
...are led in wonder to exclaim ; this is * 238 land of enchantment, this is my home and mv country ! " Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging,...every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land Ihe pride, Beleved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; His home the spot of earth supremely blest,... | |
 | George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest ; Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride ; While in his... | |
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1825 - 232 pages
...ofBarbary. — Bucaniers. — Maroons. — St. Domingo.— Hurricanes. — The Yellow Fever. THERE is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons emparadise the night ; A land of beanty,... | |
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There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside... 
