 | William Hone - Days - 1841 - 894 pages
...For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace. The héritage of Nature's noblest race. There is a spot of earth, supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest ; Where man, creation's tyrant, easts asid« His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride ; While in his softened looks benignly blend... | |
 | Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar - Azores - 1841 - 422 pages
...A land of beauty, virtue, valour, truth, Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. * " * * * * * Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found ? Art thou a man ?—a patriot ?—look around : O thou... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than...pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend. In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest A dearer, sweeter spot than...pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend. HISTORY. AMERICA. Of the four great quarters of the globe,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...his own lend of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er ell the world beside ^ His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. t And is the Negro outlaw'd from his birth t Is he alone a stranger on the earth ' Is there no shed,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than...pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend. Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife Strews with... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his soften'd looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend. Here woman reigns; the... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth — supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot— than nil the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword, and sceptre, pageantry, and pride : Within his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, faiher, friend : Here,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...peculiar grace, The heritage — of nature's noblest race. There is a spot of earth— supremely blesi, A dearer, sweeter spot — than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside Ilia swonl, and sceptre, pageantry, and pride : Within his softened looks, benignly blend The sire,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside ; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. Montgomery. PROVIDENCE.1 FROM THE ITALIAN OF FILICAJA. EVEN as a mother o'er her children bending Yearns... | |
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