| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...shine, With gold unfading, Washington ! be thine. This was Washington's reply: — Cambridye, February Id, 1776. Miss PniLLis: Your favour of the 26th... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine, With gold uufadiug, Washington ! be thine. This was Washington's reply : — Cambridge, February 2d, 1776. Miss... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1875 - 650 páginas
...of the siege of Boston, that Phillis Wheatley dedicated to him her poems, with the wish that, — " A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine With gold unfading, Washington, be thine! " Poor Washington got the book in the middle of December, and actually apologized on the 2d of February... | |
| Monroe Alphus Majors - 1893 - 400 páginas
...thy thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, virtue on thy side; Thy every action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...that shine With gold unfading, Washington, be thine. It will be seen that Phillis refers to America as Columbia, the origin of which saying is erroneously... | |
| Agnes Mawson - 1905 - 206 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtues on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...shine, With gold unfading, Washington, be thine.* Extracts from " Under the Old Elm." Poem read at Cambridge on the Hundredth Anniversary of Washington's... | |
| John Wesley Cromwell - 1914 - 342 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side Thy every action let the goddess guide, A crown, a mansion, and a throne...that shine With gold unfading, Washington, be thine ! XIX BENJAMIN BANNEKER A LITTLE more than one hundred years ago a black prince arrived on the shores... | |
| Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - 1920 - 408 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...that shine With gold unfading, Washington be thine! — PHYLLIS WHEATLEY. ABRAHAM LINCOLN FAR in the West, in forest wild, Was born one day, to us, a child;... | |
| James Weldon Johnson - 1922 - 278 páginas
...meaning is given to the closing lines of her ode to General Washington, she was a decided royalist: "A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine With gold unfading, Washington! be thine." Nevertheless, she was an ardent patriot. Her ode to General Washington (1775), her spirited poem, "On... | |
| Rupert Hughes - 1927 - 746 páginas
...increase the rising hills of dead. . . . Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...shine, With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! be thine." For this sonorous paean from Ethiopia, Washington wrote a charming acknowledgment to the young negress:... | |
| George Washington - 1931 - 684 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine, With gold unfading, WASHINGTON I be thine." — Pennsylvania Magazine, April, 1776. "The text from which this letter is taken was... | |
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