Scenes in My Native LandJ. Munroe, 1845 - 319 頁 |
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amid ancient Andross babe beautiful beneath blessed bosom breast breath bright brooklet brow cataract charms CHARTER-OAK cheer church clime Connecticut Connecticut river deep delight doth earth East Hampton fair faith father feet Fitz-John Winthrop flowers forest Fort Trumbull garden gaze GENESEO glorious grace grave green hallowed hand HARTFORD hast hath heart heaven HERMIT hills honor HUGUENOT Indian infant Island JAMES MUNROE lake land lofty mansion memory miles mind Mohegan Montauk monument mother mountain native nature neath NEWPORT TOWER Niagara night noble Norwich o'er passed peace pleasant Powhatan praise rich river rocks sacred scene scenery seemed Seneca Lake shade shore smile soul spirit spot Stockbridge strangers stream sublime summer sweet taste tear ted rose thee thine thou thought tion toil tower traveller trees VALE OF WYOMING verdure village waters wild young
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第 316 頁 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
第 275 頁 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
第 178 頁 - ... in vain we toiled, in vain we fought, we bled in vain, if you, our offspring, want valor to repel the assaults of her invaders ! Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors ; but, like them, resolve never to part with your birthright.
第 199 頁 - ... sons of hell conspire To raise the stake, and light the fire; Know, that for such superior souls, There lies a bliss beyond the poles ; Where spirits shine with purer ray, And brighten to meridian day; Where Love, where boundless Friendship rules (No friends that change, no love that cools!) Where rising floods of knowledge roll, And pour and pour upon the soul!
第 172 頁 - I really think that pure passion for flowers," she wrote, in one of her notes at this time to Mrs Lawrence, " is the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence. Often during this weary illness of mine, have I looked upon new books with perfect apathy, when, if a friend has sent me a few flowers, my heart has ' leaped up' to their dreamy hues and odours, with a sudden sense of renovated childhood, which seems to me one of the mysteries of our being.
第 156 頁 - ... sought not association with mankind, to unfold or to increase his stores of "knowledge. Those who had heard him converse spoke with surprise and admiration of his colloquial powers, his command of language, and the spirit of eloquence that flowed from his lips. But he seldom, and sparingly, admitted this intercourse, studiously avoiding society, though there seemed in his nature nothing of moroseness or misanthropy. On the contrary, he showed kindness to even the humblest animal. Birds instinctively...
第 224 頁 - Denison, with a courage that deserved success, boldly met, and bravely fought, a combined British, Tory, and Indian force of thrice their number. Numerical superiority alone gave success to the invader, and widespread havoc, desolation and ruin marked his savage and bloody footsteps through the valley.
第 122 頁 - ... has passed, the expectation has gone on increasing. I do the same now; I anticipate what this plantation and that one will presently be, if only taken care of, and there is not a spot of which I do not watch the progress. Unlike building, or even painting, or indeed any other kind of pursuit, this has no end, and is never interrupted, but goes on from day to day, and from year to year, with a perpetually augmenting interest.
第 44 頁 - Farewell to Old Montauk, and gave thee thanks, Ultima Thule of that noble Isle Against whose breast the everlasting surge Long travelling on, and ominous of wrath, Incessant beats. Thou lift'st a blessed torch Unto the vexed and storm-tossed mariner, Guiding him safely on his course again ; So teach us mid our own dark ills to guard The lamp of charity, and with clear eye Look up to Heaven.
第 227 頁 - Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength . . . ;" and the Saviour himself appealed (Matt, xxi.) to the testimony of little children.