| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...Deems 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... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pàgines
...that pole ; 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 nil the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword, and sceptre, pageantry, and pride... | |
| Philip Tocque - 1846 - 418 pàgines
...keeping one of the greatest modern improvements constantly before the public mind. HOME, SWEET HOME. " THERE is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his soften'd... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pàgines
...to that pole ; 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 all the rest; Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd... | |
| Ebenezer Fox - 1838 - 270 pàgines
...was conscious 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 all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride. Here woman reigns ;... | |
| 1847 - 540 pàgines
...Deems 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 pàgines
...trembles to that pole; 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 all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softened... | |
| Robert Athow West - 1848 - 404 pàgines
...earthly 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... | |
| 1878 - 668 pàgines
...Germ, 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... | |
| Garland - 1850 - 152 pàgines
...emparadise the night; A land of beauty, virtue, valour, truth, Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth. There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer,...Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found ? Art thou a man ? a patriot ? look around; O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land... | |
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