 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, • By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I...measuring the ample range beneath And round about absorbed, he heeded not The death that threatened him. I could not shoot ! — 'T was liberty ! —... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...you! Scaling yonder peak, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow; yet kept he rounding still Of measuring the ample range beneath His airy circle, as in the delight And round about, absorbed,... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoy'd him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow; yet kept...him. I could not shoot ! — 'Twas liberty! — I turn'd my bow aside, And let him soar away ! The land was free! oh, with what pride I used To walk... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoy'd him proudly up. Instinctively 1 bent my bow ; yet kept he rounding still His airy...not The death that threaten'd him. I could not shoot ! T was liberty ! — I turn'd my bow aside, And let him soar away ! KNOWLEs. THE TORCH OF LIBERTY.... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1841 - 412 pages
...the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoy'd him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow ; yet...him. — I could not shoot ! — 'Twas liberty. I turn'd my bow aside, And let him soar away. Verner [witkouf}. Tell !— -Tell ! Enter VERNER. Furst.... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1841 - 460 pages
...the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoy'd him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow ; yet...him. — I could not shoot ! — 'Twas liberty. I turn'd my bow aside, And let him soar away. Verner [without]. Tell !— Tell ! Enter VEBNER. Furst.... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - English drama - 1841 - 420 pages
...the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoy'd him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow; yet kept...absorb'd, he heeded not The death that threaten'd him.—I could not shoot!— 'Twas liberty. I turn'd my bow aside, And let him soar away. Verner [withouf].... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1841 - 428 pages
...the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoy'd him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow; yet kept...absorb'd, he heeded not The death that threaten'd him.—I could not shoot!— 'Twas liberty. I turn'd my bow aside, And let him soar away. Verner [withouf\.... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...the air, As if he floated there with-out their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoy'd him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow. yet kept...still His airy circle, as in the de-light Of measuring ttie ample range beneath, And round about ; ab-Ťori-'d, he heeded not The death that threatened him.... | |
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I...threaten'd him. — I could not shoot — Twas liberty I — I turned my bow aside, And let him soar away ! Heavens, with what pride I used To walk these hills,... | |
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O'er the abyss. His broad expanded wings Lay calm and motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow; yet kept he rounding still His airy... 
