 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...his own land of every land the pride, Belov'd by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. J. MONTGOMERY. MAY. COME hither, come hither, and view the face Of nature, enrob'd in her vernal grace.... | |
 | Philip Tocque - Newfoundland - 1846 - 418 pages
...greatest modern improvements constantly before the public mind. HOME, SWEET HOME. " 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... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 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 ;... | |
 | Ebenezer Fox - History - 1847 - 282 pages
...that it helped to forward my onward course to the object of all my wishes—HOME. " There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than...aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride. Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow path of life. Where... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...his own land of every land the pride, Belov'd by heaven o'er all the world beside : His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. J. MONTGOMERY. 6. Around, in sympathetic mirth, Its tricks the kitten tries, The cricket chirrups on... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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, brother, friend Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews... | |
 | Robert Athow West - Methodist Church - 1848 - 404 pages
...paradise — the haven of rest — the ark to which he was ever anxious to return : — " The spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot, than all the rest." The oriental scholar and learned commentator, the companion of savans and of princes, was still more... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1878 - 668 pages
...lieim, Go. haims, Lith. Jcaimas, Gr. Kia/ji], a village, a dwelling; hence the name of that " Spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest," our own " home." ALPHONSE ESTOCLKT. CHESS (5th S. viii. 269, 316, 438, 495 ; ix. 57.) — I beg to... | |
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1850 - 402 pages
...For in this land of Heaven's peeuliar graee, The heritage of nature's noblest raee. There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, ereation's tyrant, easts aside His sword and seeptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softcn'd looks... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 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 shalt... | |
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