The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys: Late Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of MadridT. and J. Swords, no. 160 Pearl-street, 1804 - 394 strán (strany) |
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Strana 52
... night to trace , In characters of hell , the pirate race ! Teach me , prophetic , to disclose their doom →→ A new - born nation trampling on their tomb ! What mortal terrors all my senses seize , Possess my heart , and life's warm ...
... night to trace , In characters of hell , the pirate race ! Teach me , prophetic , to disclose their doom →→ A new - born nation trampling on their tomb ! What mortal terrors all my senses seize , Possess my heart , and life's warm ...
Strana 59
... night the sun— The eastern cloud , its flames expir'd at last , Flies from the light'ning of the western blast : So fled the corsair line the blighting stroke Of freedom's thunder - so their battle broke— As if by heav'n's own arm subdu ...
... night the sun— The eastern cloud , its flames expir'd at last , Flies from the light'ning of the western blast : So fled the corsair line the blighting stroke Of freedom's thunder - so their battle broke— As if by heav'n's own arm subdu ...
Strana 63
... the breath , Gloomy as night and terrible as death ! No beast more fell , with rage and vengeance swell'd , Th ' Apocalypse in Patmos ' isle beheld . 515 } With half a thousand feet he treads down kings UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . 63.
... the breath , Gloomy as night and terrible as death ! No beast more fell , with rage and vengeance swell'd , Th ' Apocalypse in Patmos ' isle beheld . 515 } With half a thousand feet he treads down kings UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . 63.
Strana 65
... night , 575 While age succeeding age ascends to light ; Till your blest offspring , countless as the stars , In open ocean quench the torch of wars : With God - like aim , in one firm union bind The common good and int'rest of mankind ...
... night , 575 While age succeeding age ascends to light ; Till your blest offspring , countless as the stars , In open ocean quench the torch of wars : With God - like aim , in one firm union bind The common good and int'rest of mankind ...
Strana 100
... night's dark shades o'ercast th ' ill - favour'd race , Nor transient flushes change the vacant face ; 120 Though nature ne'er transforms their woolly hair To golden ringlets , elegantly fair ! Yet has not God infus'd immortal powers ...
... night's dark shades o'ercast th ' ill - favour'd race , Nor transient flushes change the vacant face ; 120 Though nature ne'er transforms their woolly hair To golden ringlets , elegantly fair ! Yet has not God infus'd immortal powers ...
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Strana 203 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Strana 205 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Strana 207 - Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain ; Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Strana 301 - The royal band now ready stand, All ranged in dread array, sir, With stomach stout to see it out, And make a bloody day, sir. The cannons roar from shore to shore, The small arms make a rattle ; Since wars began I'm sure no man E'er saw so strange a battle. The rebel dales, the rebel vales, With rebel trees surrounded ; The distant woods, the hills and floods, With rebel echoes sounded.
Strana 203 - Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Strana 300 - The soldier flew, the sailor too, And scared almost to death, sir, Wore out their shoes to spread the news, And ran till out of breath, sir. Now up and down, throughout the town, Most frantic scenes were acted; And some ran here, and others there, Like men almost distracted. Some fire...
Strana 209 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Strana iii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Strana 302 - A hundred men, with each a pen, Or more, upon my word, sir, It is most true, would be too few, Their valor to record, sir. " Such feats did they perform that day Against these wicked kegs, sir, That, years to come, if they get home, They'll make their boasts and brags, sir.
Strana 205 - Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain...