The Letters of the British SpyHarper & Brothers, 1837 - 260 páginas |
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adieu alluvion America appearance argument Atlantic ocean beautiful believe Bladensburg boys British Spy Buffon cause celebrated censure character continent court curious dear deism Demosthenes doubt earth eastern coast Edmund Randolph effect eloquence eminent Engravings fancy feelings force genius gentlemen grace hand hearers heart heaven honour Indians interest James river JOHN ABERCROMBIE judgment lava letters light lived LL.D look lord Lord Verulam manner ment miles mind Monticello motion mountains native nature never observation occasion ocean once opinion orator passage passion Patrick Henry perhaps period person political Portrait present produced profes reader reason remarkable resided Richmond Robert Boyle scene seems shore sketch soul South America speaker spirit style sublime suppose talents theory thing thought tion truth venerable vigorous Virginia voice western whole Williamsburg Wirt Wirt's writer young
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Página 228 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 198 - Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" — the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flood of grief. The effect is inconceivable.
Página 208 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Página 195 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Página 228 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have...
Página 198 - The first sentence with which he broke the awful silence was a quotation from Rousseau : — " Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ, like a God !" I despair of giving you any idea of the effect produced by this short sentence, unless you could perfectly conceive the whole manner of the man, as well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse. Never before did I completely understand what Demosthenes meant by laying such stress on delivery.
Página 75 - On one side, specimens of sculpture set out, in such order, as to exhibit at a coup d'ail, the historical progress of that art ; from the first rude attempts of the aborigines of our country, up to that exquisite and finished bust of the great patriot himself, from the master hand of Caracci.
Página 85 - ... we find her shivering at midnight on the winter banks of the Ohio and mingling her tears with the torrents that froze as they fell.
Página 229 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes...