We listen to the chiefs in council ; we see the unexampled exhibition of female fortitude and resignation ; we hear the whisperings of youthful impatience, and we see, what a painter of our own has also represented by his pencil,! chilled and shivering... The North American Review - Page 11edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pages
...nations ; they were also the bankers for all Europe ; advantages by which they gained immense sums. CS and soldier-like air and manner of Standish ; the...; their conscious joy for dangers escaped ; their high religious faith, full of confidence and anticipation — all of these seem to belong to this place,... | |
| George Lowell Austin - Massachusetts - 1884 - 686 pages
...fortitude and submission, also, were not wanting ; and there, too, was " chilled and shivering childhood, houseless but for a mother's arms, couchless but for a mother's breast." From a "land to which they were never to return" the Pilgrims had come; and " hither they had brought,... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Law - 1886 - 818 pages
...see, what a painter of our own has also represented by his pencil,2 chilled and shivering childhood, houseless, but for a mother's arms, couchless, but...enterprising Allerton ; * the general firmness and thoughtf uiness of the whole band ; their conscious joy for dangers escaped ; 1 An interesting account... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Criticism - 1887 - 344 pages
...immediately after, the picture is flashed upon the imagination of " chilled and shivering childhood, houseless but for a mother's arms, couchless but for a mother's breast," — an image which shows that the orator had not only transformed himself into a spectator of the scene,... | |
| Plymouth (Mass.). Historic Festival Committee - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1897 - 90 pages
...resignation ; we hear the whisperings of youthful impatience ; and we see chilled and shivering childhood, houseless but for a mother's arms, couchless but for...thoughtfulness of the whole band ; their conscious joys for dangers escaped ; their deep solicitude about dangers to come ; their trust in heaven ; their... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 636 pages
...— what a painter of our own has also represented by his pencil — chilled and shivering childhood, houseless but for a mother's arms, couchless but for a mother's breast, till our blood almost freezes. The mild dignity of Carver and of Bradford ; the decision and soldierlike air... | |
| Nellie Elfa Turner - Reading - 1915 - 536 pages
...see, what a painter of our own has also represented by his pencil, chilled and shivering childhood, houseless, but for a mother's arms, couchless, but...mother's breast, till our own blood almost freezes. n The mild dignity of Carver and of Bradford ; the decisive and 38. U'1. SENTENCE I. This Rock. —... | |
| John D. Seelye - History - 1998 - 724 pages
...resignation; we hear the whisperings of youthful impatience, and we see ... chilled and shivering childhood, houseless, but for a mother's arms, couchless, but for a mother's breast" ( Writings, 1:184). In calling up this vision, Webster was assisted by the presence of Sargent's painting,... | |
| Henry Reed Stiles - Hartford County (Conn.) - 1997 - 533 pages
...Webster: "We hear the whisperings of youthful impatience, and we see chilled and shivering childhood, houseless but for a mother's arms, couchless but for a mother's breast, till our blood almost freezes." But God, in whom they trusted, was not unmindful of His suffering ones. His... | |
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