The Modern Hagar: A Drama, Količina 1

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George W. Harlan & Company, 1882

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Stran 59 - Making a poet out of a man : The true gods sigh for the cost and pain, — For the reed which grows nevermore again As a reed with the reeds in the river.
Stran 221 - Christ of the seven wounds, who look'dst through the dark To the face of thy mother! consider, I pray. How we common mothers stand desolate, mark, Whose sons, not being Christs, die with eyes turned away, And no last word to say!
Stran 200 - The white is the superior race, and the black the inferior ; and subordination, with or without law, will be the status of the African in this mixed society ; and, therefore, it is the interest of both, and especially of the black race, and of the whole society, that this status should be fixed, controlled, and protected by law.
Stran 21 - A man might then behold At Christmas, in each hall Good fires to curb the cold, And meat for great and small. The neighbors were friendly bidden, And all had welcome true, The poor from the gates were not chidden When this old cap was new.
Stran 49 - Who, even in the hour of agony, would forget the friend over whom he mourns? Who, even when the tomb is closing upon the remains of her he most loved, when he feels his heart, as it were, crushed in the closing of its portal, would accept of consolation that must be bought by forgetfulness?
Stran 164 - the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Stran 7 - Children of men ! the unseen Power, whose eye For ever doth accompany mankind, Hath looked on no religion scornfully That man did ever find. " Which has not taught weak wills how much they can ? Which has not fall'n on the dry heart like rain ? Which has not cried to sunk, self-weary man : Thou must be born again...
Stran 35 - ... famished recesses of swamps and morasses, rather than bow his haughty spirit to submission, and live dependent and despised in the ease and luxury of the settlements. With heroic qualities and bold achievements that would have graced a civilized warrior, and have rendered him the theme of the poet and the historian; he lived a wanderer and a fugitive in his native land, and went down, like a lonely bark foundering amid darkness and tempest — without a pitying eye to weep his fall, or a friendly...
Stran 36 - The night has a thousand eyes, The day but one: But the light of the whole day Goes out with the setting sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, The heart but one; But the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.
Stran 36 - The mind hath a thousand eyes, The heart but one ; Yet the light of the whole life dies When love is done.

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