An Oration Pronounced at Cambridge, Before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa. August 27, 1824. ...J.W. Palmer & Company, 1824 - 35 頁 |
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第 26 頁 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
第 38 頁 - Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last.
第 36 頁 - The most powerful motives call on us, as scholars, for those efforts, which our common country demands of all her children. Most of us are of that class, who owe whatever of knowledge has shone into our minds, to the free and popular institutions of our native land. There are few of us, who may not be permitted to boast, that we have been reared in an honest poverty or a frugal competence, and owe every thing to those means of education, which are equally open to all.
第 10 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 40 頁 - Enjoy a triumph, such as conqueror or monarch never enjoyed, the assurance that throughout America, there is not a bosom, which does not beat with joy and gratitude at the sound of your name.
第 36 頁 - ... such, the glory to crown its success. If I err, in this happy vision of my country's fortunes, I thank God, for an error so animating. If this be false, may I never know the truth. Never may you, my friends, be under any other feeling, than that a great, a growing, an immeasurably expanding, country is calling upon you for your best services. The...
第 38 頁 - Doric bards fancied it in the hyperborean regions ; the sage of the academy placed it in the lost Atlantis ; and even the sterner spirit of Seneca could discern a fairer abode of humanity, in distant regions then unknown.
第 35 頁 - The better days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine; The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be thine.
第 25 頁 - ... exercises of its creative faculties, strives with curious search for that master-note, which will awaken a vibration from the surrounding community, and which, if it do not find, it is itself too often struck dumb. For this reason, from the moment in the destiny of nations that they descend from their culminating point and begin to decline, from that moment the voice of creative genius is hushed, and, at best, the age of criticism, learning and imitation succeeds. When Greece ceased to be independent,...
第 37 頁 - One might almost think, without extravagance, that the departed wise and good of all places and times, are looking down from their happy seats, to witness what shall now be done by us ; that they who lavished their treasures and their blood, of old, who labored and suffered, who spake and wrote, who fought and perished, in...