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Página 273 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Página 26 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Página 12 - Pointed with mortall sting : Of her there bred A thousand yong ones, which she dayly fed, Sucking upon her poisnous dugs; each one Of sundrie shapes, yet all ill-favored: Soone as that uncouth light upon them shone, Into her mouth they crept, and suddain all were gone.
Página 236 - I had but one gentleman in my mind for that important command, and that was a gentleman from Virginia who was among us and very well known to all of us, a gentleman whose skill and experience as an officer, whose independent fortune, great talents, and excellent universal character, would command the approbation of all America, and unite the cordial exertions of all the Colonies better than any other person in the Union.
Página 26 - With what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world ; to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits ? Whom thus the Angel interrupted mild.
Página 214 - The defence was well conceived and obstinately maintained ; the retreat was no flight; it was even covered with bravery and military skill...
Página 30 - Now the front rank fires a volley, — they have thrown away their shot ; For behind their earthwork lying, all the balls above them flying, Our people need not hurry ; so they wait and answer not. Then the Corporal, our old cripple (he would swear sometimes and tipple), — He had heard the bullets whistle (in the old French war) before, — Calls out in words of jeering, just as if they all were hearing, — And his wooden leg thumps fiercely on the dusty belfry floor : — " Oh ! fire away, ye...
Página 32 - sa soldier bleeding, and he '11 come and dress his wound ! " Ah, we knew not till the morrow told its tale of death and sorrow, How the starlight found him stiffened on the dark and bloody ground. Who the youth was, what his name was, where the place from which he came was, Who had brought him from the battle, and had left...
Página 29 - T IS like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers All the achings and the quakings of " the times that tried men's souls ; " When I talk of Whig and Tory, when I tell the Rebel story, To you the words are ashes, but to me they 're burning coals. I had heard the muskets...
Página 19 - His characteristic excellences recall many points of the apostle's description of the virtue which never faileth. He suffered long and was kind; he envied not; he vaunted not himself; he was not puffed up; he sought not his own; was not easily provoked; thought no evil; and rejoiced in the truth.