 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 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...round about, ;absorb'd, he heeded not The death that threatened him. I could not shoot !— 'Twas liberty. I turned my bow aside, And let him soar away.... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 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 ! "Twas liberty ! I turned... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 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 ! —... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 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 bent my bow ; yet kept he rounding still His aery circle, as in the delight Of measuring the ample range beneath ; And round about, absorbed, he... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 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\vas liberty ! —... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1856 - 468 pages
...their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoy'd him proudly up. Instinctively I strung my bow ; yet kept he rounding still His airy circle,...round about, absorb'd, he heeded not The death that threaten' d him ! — I could not shoot ! — 'Twas liberty. I turn'd the shaft aside, And let him... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 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...measuring the ample range beneath And round about : absorbed, he heeded not The death that threaten'd him — I could not shoot, Twas liberty. I turned... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 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 bent...measuring the ample range beneath And round about : absorbed, he heeded not The death that threatened him — I could not shoot, 'Twas liberty. I turned... | |
 | 1857 - 280 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 ! I turned... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 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...round about; absorb'd, he heeded not The death that threateu'd him. I could not shoot !'Twas LIBERTY ! I turn'd my bow aside, And let him soar away ! LESSON... | |
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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... 
