Romantic Passages in Southwestern History: Including Orations, Sketches and Essays

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S.H. Goetzel & Company, 1857 - 330 páginas
 

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Página 181 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 106 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 284 - I am in your power ; do with me as you please. I am a soldier. I have done the white people all the harm I could. I have fought them, and fought them bravely. If I had an army, I would yet fight and contend to the last. But I have none. My people are all gone. I can do no more than weep over the misfortunes of my nation.
Página 54 - They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why ; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty; A stubborn race, fearing and flattering none.
Página 167 - Dante was the first awakener of entranced Europe; he created a language, in itself music and persuasion, out of a chaos of inharmonious barbarisms. He was the congregator of those great spirits who presided over the resurrection of learning; the Lucifer of that starry flock which in the thirteenth century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world.
Página 128 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
Página 285 - Once I could animate my warriors to battle; but I cannot animate the dead. My warriors can no longer hear my voice: their bones are at Talladega, Tallushatchee, Emuckfaw and Tohopeka.
Página 286 - I would have raised my corn on one bank of the river, and fought them on the other ; but your people have destroyed my nation. You are a brave man : I rely upon your generosity. You will exact no terms of a conquered people but such as they should accede to : whatever they may be, it would now be madness and folly to oppose.
Página 100 - Yet their names are on our waters, And we may not wash them out ! Their memory liveth on our hills, Their baptism on our shore, — Our everlasting rivers speak Their dialect of yore ! 'Tis heard where Chattahoochee pours His yellow tide along ; It sounds on Tallapoosa's shores, And Coosa swells the song ; Where lordly Alabama sweeps, The symphony remains : And young Cahawba proudly keeps The echo of its strains ; Where Tuscaloosa's waters glide, From stream and town 'tis heard, And dark Tombeckbee's...
Página 173 - Diana and her fawn, and all the glories of the antique world"; then I start away to prevent the iron from entering my soul, and let fall some tears into that stream of time which separates me farther and farther from all I once loved!

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