Sensibility: The Stranger, and Other PoemsHarper, 1818 - 319 páginas |
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... breaks the heavy chains ; Bids hoary - headed woe forget its grief , And to the friendless captive brings relief ; Leads slav'ry to the light , and bids it see The long - desir'd gay gleam of liberty .. Sweet Sensibility , to thee we ...
... breaks the heavy chains ; Bids hoary - headed woe forget its grief , And to the friendless captive brings relief ; Leads slav'ry to the light , and bids it see The long - desir'd gay gleam of liberty .. Sweet Sensibility , to thee we ...
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... breaking sweetly on thy solitude , Wraps up thy spirit in a musing mood ; When Locke detains thee in thy studious hour , And clearly traces Reason's varied pow'r ; When Milton rises on seraphic wing , And sings where none but Milton's ...
... breaking sweetly on thy solitude , Wraps up thy spirit in a musing mood ; When Locke detains thee in thy studious hour , And clearly traces Reason's varied pow'r ; When Milton rises on seraphic wing , And sings where none but Milton's ...
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... break : She thinks with anguish on her darling boy , Once the fond promise of long years of joy ; And while she mourns his father snatch'd away , In doleful accents thus begins to say : " Ah , rest my babe , blest be thine early years ...
... break : She thinks with anguish on her darling boy , Once the fond promise of long years of joy ; And while she mourns his father snatch'd away , In doleful accents thus begins to say : " Ah , rest my babe , blest be thine early years ...
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... breaks , And pleased Echo listens while she speaks : 66 Accept , dear shade , while thus with pious care " Garlands of flowers I for thine urn prepare ; Thy Isabella's tears , now sadly due 66 " To bleeding love , to mem'ry , and to you ...
... breaks , And pleased Echo listens while she speaks : 66 Accept , dear shade , while thus with pious care " Garlands of flowers I for thine urn prepare ; Thy Isabella's tears , now sadly due 66 " To bleeding love , to mem'ry , and to you ...
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... break her chain ; The fetter'd savage shall assert his right , And truth's fair flame dispel his mental night ; O'er his rapt eyes wisdom's mild lights shall roll , And heavenly science shine upon his soul . From golden clouds , in some ...
... break her chain ; The fetter'd savage shall assert his right , And truth's fair flame dispel his mental night ; O'er his rapt eyes wisdom's mild lights shall roll , And heavenly science shine upon his soul . From golden clouds , in some ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abbot affliction's amidst angel anguish art thou Augustine Azid beam behold blest bliss bold bands bosom breast breath bright bright eye canker-worm charm cheek cheer cloud cold dæmon dead death death's domain delight despair divine doom'd dost E'en e'er earth earthly ev'ry fair fate father feeling flow'r giv'n gloom glory grace grave grief hallow'd hapless heart heav'n heav'nly holy hope hour king of day life's light lips Logan look'd Lord lov'd lustre lyre mind misery mortal Mount Thabor mourn ne'er never night o'er pale pangs peace pensive pleas'd pleasure poor pow'r pray'r pride Pythias R. B. SHERIDAN reign repose rest scene seem'd Sensibility shade shed shine sigh silent smile sooth sorrow soul spirit Stranger sweet tears thee thine thought tomb Twas vale virtue weary ween weep wild wilt thou youth
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Página 24 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 24 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 22 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Página 23 - In the spring of the year 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe. The neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this, outrage in a summary way. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party and proceeded down the Kanhaway in quest of vengeance.
Página 23 - Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend of the whites. This unworthy return provoked his vengeance. He accordingly signalized himself in the war which ensued. In the autumn of the same year a decisive battle was fought at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway, between the collected forces of the Shawanese, Mingoes and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia militia.
Página 23 - Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river ; and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire killed every person in it.
Página 23 - ... speech, to be delivered to lord Dunmore. " I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the...
Página 23 - Mingoes, and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia militia. The Indians were defeated, and sued for peace. Logan however disdained to be seen among the suppliants. But, lest the sincerity of a treaty should be distrusted, from which so distinguished a chief absented himself, he sent by a messenger the following speech to be delivered to Lord Dunmore. 'I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed...
Página 202 - Each village lass is proud to wear Her newest gown and bonnet, While dames of threescore whisper near And moralise upon it.