Essays and a Drama in Five ActsPhillips, 1852 - 400 pagina's |
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1st Cit 2d Cit ages American ancient André beauty beneath Benedict Arnold blood cataract cause character China Chinese Clint clouds command Confucius Cong Cotopaxi creation culture dark deep depth divine earth element Enter ARNOLD eternal Exeunt Exit expression fact faith feeling feet forever forms genius give glory heart heaven highest honors hope human idea infinite inspiration intellect John André king language light Major André mankind Mencius mighty miles mind moral mountains mystery nations nature never Niagara noble Norridgewock officer ORIANA original pass Persia porphyritic Quebec reverence rise river rock sacred SCENE scenery silent SIR HENRY CLINTON soul speak spirit stars storm sublimity summits symbol thee things thou thought tion true truth unfolds unity universe utterance vast voice Vulture Washington West Point whilst whole wild words worship
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Pagina 73 - THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from his hollow hand, And hung his bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, The sound of many waters ; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks.
Pagina 14 - If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections of my own distant travels, I would instance among the most striking scenes of nature the calm sublimity of a tropical night, when the stars, not sparkling as in our northern skies, shed their soft and planetary light over the gently heaving ocean; or I would recall the deep valleys of the Cordilleras, where the tall and slender palms pierce the leafy veil around them, and waving on high their feathery and arrow-like branches...
Pagina 15 - ... or I would describe the summit of the Peak of Teneriffe, when a horizontal layer of clouds, dazzling in whiteness, has separated the cone of cinders from the plain below, and suddenly the ascending current pierces the cloudy veil, so that the eye of the traveller may range from the brink of the crater, along the vine-clad slopes of Orotava, to the orange gardens and banana groves that skirt the shore.
Pagina 100 - To educate without rigor shows a teacher's indolence. That boys should not learn is an unjust thing : For if they do not learn in youth, what will they do when old? As gems unwrought serve no useful end, So men untaught will never know what right conduct is.
Pagina 15 - ... it lies spread before us like a smooth and shining mirror, or is dimly seen through the morning mist. All that the senses can but imperfectly comprehend, all that is most awful in such romantic scenes of nature, may become a source of enjoyment to man by opening a wide field to the creative powers of his imagination. Impressions change with the varying movements of the mind, and we are led by a happy illusion to believe that we receive from the external world that with which we have ourselves...
Pagina 358 - Permit Mr John Anderson to pass the guards to the White Plains, or below if he chooses ; he being on public business by my direction. B. ARNOLD, M. Genl.
Pagina 368 - The person in your possession is Major John Andre, Adjutant-General to the British army. " The influence of one commander in the army of his adversary is an advantage taken in war. A correspondence for this purpose I held ; as confidential (in the present instance) with his Excellency Sir Henry Clinton.
Pagina 46 - There, as the traveller turns his eyes to the vault of heaven, a single glance embraces the constellation of the Southern Cross, the Magellanic clouds, and the guiding stars of the constellation of the Bear, as they circle round the arctic pole. There the depths of the earth and the vaults of heaven display all the richness of their forms and the variety of their phenomena.
Pagina 105 - He was at times applauded and patronized, but quite as often the object of persecution and contumely ; more than once his life was endangered. He compared himself to a dog driven from his home ; " I have the fidelity of that animal, and I am treated like it. But what matters the ingratitude of men ? They cannot hinder me from doing all the good that has been appointed me. If my precepts are disregarded, I have the consolation of knowing in my own breast that I have faithfully performed my duty.