Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee: With Selections from His Writings and SpeechesLittle, Brown,, 1905 - 441 pages |
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Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee: With Selections from His Writings and Speeches John Torrey Morse (Jr.) Affichage du livre entier - 1905 |
Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee: With Selections from His Writings and Speeches John Torrey Morse (Jr.) Affichage du livre entier - 1905 |
Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee: With Selections from His Writings and Speeches John Torrey Morse Affichage du livre entier - 1905 |
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actors admiration ancestors beautiful Beverly Farms 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 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 314 - 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 356 - 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 424 - 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 202 - 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 81 - 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 43 - 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 371 - O YE, whose cheek the tear of pity stains, Draw near with pious rev'rence, and attend ! Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, The tender father, and the gen'rous friend. The pitying heart that felt for human woe ; The dauntless heart that fear'd no human pride ; The friend of man, to vice alone a foe; " For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side.
Page 146 - 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 344 - 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!
Page 377 - Character, — a reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.