| Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...Barbary. — Bucea IK i — Maroons. — St Domingo. — Hurricanes. — The Yellow Ferer. THCRE it & land, of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; Where brighter suns dispense' serener li;;h». And milder moons em paradise the nighl; A Li nd of... | |
| John Malcolm - 1829 - 344 pages
...with the hope, that " posterity will do me justice." SCENES OF MEMORY. SCENES OF MEMORY. " 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 imparadise the night; A land of beauty,... | |
| Gift books - 1830 - 342 pages
...the maid I seek ; Soon shall the canvass learn to speak. THE RETURN. BY THE AUTHOR OF " OBSTINACY." " Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging...Heaven o'er all the world beside; His home, the spot on earth supremely bless'd, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." MONTGOMERY. AFTER eighteen years'... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...dishonor'd vales; Where Albion's rocks exult amidnt the sea, Around the beauteous isle of Liberty ; — Man, through all ages of revolving time, . Unchanging...Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; His homo the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all tho rt;sl. And is the Negro... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...dishonor'd vales; ^ Where Albion's rocks exult amidst the sea, ' Around the beauteous isle of liberty ; — Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying cume, Deems his own land of every land the pride. Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; Hi«... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...OF COUNTRY AND OF 1IOMR. Extract from " The We§t Indies " a Poem, by James Montgomery. 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 beauty,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 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... | |
| Alonzo King - Burma - 1834 - 338 pages
...every human bosom. The extracts will show how strongly he felt the sentiment of the poet: " 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 imparadise the night ; A land of beauty,... | |
| 1835 - 616 pages
...people, — then indeed may we point exultingly to the home of our nativity, and justly style it "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 beauty,... | |
| England - 1835 - 802 pages
...more than realized the picture of domestic bliss so finely pourtrayed by the poet : — * There is n spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, motion's tyrant, casts nside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his soften'd... | |
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