American AddressesCentury Company, 1911 - 360 páginas |
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Página viii - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Página 269 - Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 75 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Página 167 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem...
Página 68 - Who steals my purse steals trash, 'tis something, nothing; Twas mine, 'tis his, and hath been slave to thousands: But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that WHICH NOT ENRICHES HIM, BUT MAKES ME POOR INDEED.
Página 143 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Página 307 - Bernini, the Florentine sculptor, architect, painter and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre.
Página 269 - A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun.
Página 14 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Página 39 - Foley," turning to the captain, " I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes...