... speech Save the ten Arab signs, yet not without The shrewd dry humor natural to the man : His awe-struck colleagues listening all the while, Between the pauses of his argument, To hear the thunder of the wrath of God Break from the hollow trumpet... Historic Towns of New England - Stran 564avtor: Lyman P. Powell - 1898Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1888 - 432 strani
...blessing upon the memory of him who lost his own life in saving theirs. " And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face half seen...they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear." NEW WORDS. ay berths intense blazing echo lifeless steering unnatural pilot rugged memory self-poised... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 534 strani
...trumpet of the cloud. this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half And there he stands in memory to seen Against the background of unnatural dark, A witness to the ages as thev pass, Ihat simple duty hath no place for fear. And, shore-ward, o'er the waters gleamed, From... | |
| George Lewis Prentiss - 1889 - 320 strani
...commemorated by Whittier in his poem entitled Abraham Davenport: — And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half...pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear. The other instance took place at Danbury, at the court of Common Pleas, of which he was Chief Justice.... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 414 strani
...thunder of the wrath of God Break from the hollow trumpet of the cloud. And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half...they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear. 1800. He ceased : just then the ocean seemed To lift a half -faced moon in sight ; And, shore-ward,... | |
| George Lewis Prentiss - 1889 - 320 strani
...Whittier in his poem entitled Abraham Davenport: — And there he stands in memory to this day, Krect, self-poised, a rugged face, half seen Against the...pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear. The other instance took place at Danbury, at the court of Common Pleas, of which he was Chief Justice.... | |
| William Willis Hayward - 1889 - 1304 strani
...one barely two months. We can only say of her as Whittier writes of Abraham Davenport, that she is " A witness to the ages as they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear." Mrs. Bezaleel Spaulding, on one occasion, went after her cow, and lingering too long, to pick berries,... | |
| Sidney Perley - 1891 - 362 strani
...of the wrath of God Break from the hollow trumpet of the cloud. " And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face half seen...they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear." At Salem, Mass., Dr. Nathaniel Whitaker's congregation came together at their church, and he preached... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 536 strani
...thunder of the wrath of God Break from the hollow trumpet of the cloud. And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half...they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear. 1866. He ceased : just then the ocean seemed To lift a half-faced moon iu sight ; And, shore-ward,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 608 strani
...thunder of the wrath of God Break from the hollow trumpet of the cloud. And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half...they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear. He ceased : just then the ocean seemed To lift a half-faced moon in sight ; And, shore-ward, -o'er... | |
| 1892 - 324 strani
...thunder of the wrath of God Break from the hollow trumpet of the cloud. And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half...they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear. John Greenleaf Whittier. SIR MARMADUKE SIR MARMADUKE was a hearty knight ; Good man ! old man ! He... | |
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