The Crayon PapersJohn B. Alden, 1883 - 201 pages |
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Page 176 - And terror on my aching sight : the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand and let me hear thy voice ; Nay — quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 80 - 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.
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Page 17 - I forget the effect upon me of the first view of them predominating over a wide extent of country, part wild, woody, and rugged ; part softened away into all the graces of cultivation. As we slowly floated along, I lay on the deck and watched them through a long summer's day ; undergoing a thousand mutations under the magical effects of atmosphere ; sometimes seeming to approach ; at other times to recede ; now almost melting into hazy distance, now burnished by the setting sun, until, in the evening,...
Page 69 - That life was happy ; every day he gave Thanks for the fair existence that was his ; For a sick fancy made him not her slave, To mock him with her phantom miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him.
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Page 69 - And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor can I deem that nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. For when his hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die.
Page 279 - I know you white men say we all come from the same father and mother, but you are mistaken. We have a tradition handed down from our forefathers, and we believe it, that the Great Spirit, when he undertook to make men, made the black man ; it was his first attempt, and pretty well for a beginning ; but he soon saw he had bungled ; so he determined to try his hand again.
Page 70 - If it were becoming at this time and in this assembly to address our departed friend as if in his immediate presence, I would say : " Farewell ! thou who hast entered into the rest prepared, from the foundation of the world, for serene and gentle spirits like thine : Farewell ! happy in thy life, happy in thy death, happier in the reward to which that death was the assured passage ; fortunate in attracting the admiration of the world to thy beautiful writings, still more fortunate in having written...
Page 69 - His youth was innocent ; his riper age, Marked with some act of goodness, every day ; And watched by eyes that loved him, calm, and sage, Faded his late declining years away. Cheerful he gave his being up, and went To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent.