The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys: Late Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Madrid |
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... nation , by translating them into French , if unsupported by your personal merit and amiable accomplishments . The frequency of naval intercourse , and the extension of polite literature , seem greatly to approximate the distant parts ...
... nation , by translating them into French , if unsupported by your personal merit and amiable accomplishments . The frequency of naval intercourse , and the extension of polite literature , seem greatly to approximate the distant parts ...
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... nations skill'd , and brave in arms , See HUMPHREYS glorious from the field retire , Sheathe the glad sword , and string the sounding lyre- That lyre , which erst , in hours of dark despair , Rous'd the sad realms to urge th ' unfinish ...
... nations skill'd , and brave in arms , See HUMPHREYS glorious from the field retire , Sheathe the glad sword , and string the sounding lyre- That lyre , which erst , in hours of dark despair , Rous'd the sad realms to urge th ' unfinish ...
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... nation which has had the first fruits of your poem is precisely the English : but it is proper to acknowledge , on the present , as well as on many other occasions , this nation has proved that its enmity does not extend to merit and ...
... nation which has had the first fruits of your poem is precisely the English : but it is proper to acknowledge , on the present , as well as on many other occasions , this nation has proved that its enmity does not extend to merit and ...
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... nation - still the Americans are to rely on their own resources for the establishment of independence - apostrophe to indepen▾ dence - Britain obliged to relinquish her ideas of conquest- dawn of peace - invocation to peace - address ...
... nation - still the Americans are to rely on their own resources for the establishment of independence - apostrophe to indepen▾ dence - Britain obliged to relinquish her ideas of conquest- dawn of peace - invocation to peace - address ...
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... 'd , Cements the nations by their heroes ' blood . 265 Yet still , Columbians , see what choice remains , Ignoble bondage and inglorious chains ,, Or all the joys which liberty can give , For UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . 13.
... 'd , Cements the nations by their heroes ' blood . 265 Yet still , Columbians , see what choice remains , Ignoble bondage and inglorious chains ,, Or all the joys which liberty can give , For UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . 13.
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...