Life of Captain Nathan Hale: The Martyr-spy of the American RevolutionF. A. Brown, 1856 - 230 頁 |
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第 158 頁 - In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed sentry's tramp; And the starlight and moonlight His silent wanderings lamp. With slow tread and still tread He scans the tented line; And he counts the battery guns By the gaunt and shadowy pine; And his slow tread and still tread Gives no warning sign.
第 159 頁 - Nor a shadow trace of gloom ; But with calm brow and steady brow, He robes him for the tomb. In the long night, the still night, He kneels upon the sod ; And the brutal guards withhold E'en the solemn word of God ! In the long night, the still night, He walks where Christ hath trod.
第 160 頁 - Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf, from monument and urn, The sad of earth, the glad of heaven his tragic fate shall learn; And on Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf the name of Hale shall burn ! FRANCIS M.
第 187 頁 - Sir James Hales was dead, and how came he to his Death? It may be answered by drowning; and who drowned him? Sir James Hales; and when did he drown him? In his Life-time. So that Sir James Hales being alive caused Sir James Hales to die ; and the Act of the living Man was the Death of the dead Man.
第 25 頁 - In addition to this I have kept, during the Summer, a morning school, between the hours of five and seven, of about 20 young ladies; for which I have received 6
第 34 頁 - Possessing genius, taste, and ardor, he became distinguished as a scholar ; and, endowed in an eminent degree with those graces and gifts of nature which add a charm to youthful excellence, he gained universal esteem and confidence. To high moral worth and irreproachable habits were joined gentleness of manners, an ingenuous disposition, and vigor of understanding. No young man of his years put forth a fairer promise of future usefulness and celebrity ; the fortunes of none were fostered more sincerely...
第 59 頁 - I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces: for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people ? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred...
第 87 頁 - I am fully sensible of the consequences of discovery and capture in such a situation.
第 71 頁 - Schooner) made an attempt upon the shipping up the River. The night was too dark, the wind too slack for the attempt. The Schooner which was intended for one of the Ships had got by before she discovered them; but as Providence would have it, she run athwart a bomb-catch which she quickly burned. The Sloop by the light of the...
第 149 頁 - We trust it will be prosecuted, and that, springing from a broad foundation, rising high in massive solidity and unadorned grandeur, it may remain as long as Heaven permits the works of man to last, a fit emblem, both of the events in memory of which it is raised, and of the gratitude of those who have reared it.