A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

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Little, Brown, 1853 - 270 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 224 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Pàgina 164 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Pàgina 70 - Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose ; " ' But when the sun in all his state Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's morning gate, And walked in paradise.
Pàgina 154 - CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Pàgina 16 - Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.
Pàgina 258 - All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and tenderly...
Pàgina 60 - And can not cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above desire and fear ; No more submitted to the change and chance Of the unsteady planets. 0 'tis well With him ! but who knows what the coming hour Veil'd in thick darkness brings for us ! Coun.
Pàgina 189 - November 6, 1852, the following Resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That in the death of...
Pàgina 204 - Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty, its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with thy spirit!
Pàgina 87 - ... which it would not be easy to recall any parallel in the biography of illustrious men. Without seeking for parallels, and without asserting that they do not exist, consider that he was, by universal designation, the leader of the general American Bar ; and that he was, also, by an equally universal designation, foremost of her statesmen living at his death ; inferior to not one who has lived and acted since the opening of his own public life. Look at these aspects of his greatness separately,...

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