...what America would become was not founded on square miles, or on existing numbers, or on any common laws of statistics. It was an intuitive glance into...infinitely exceeding that for which the great English poet invokes . "A muse of fire, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling...

...Enter CHORUS, at Prologue. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He call'd them untaught knaves, unmann ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and at his heels, Leash'd...

...CHORUS, as Prologue.1 O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and at his heels, Leash'd...

...INVITATION TO THE MUSE. 0, FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scenet Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and, at his heels, Leash'd...

...already part, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, — Time's noblest offspring is the last." On the day of the Declaration of Independence, our...importance, infinitely exceeding that for which the great FngiiA poet invoked " A mum of fire, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold...

...acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offering is the last." On the day of the Declaration of Independence, our...of fire, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarcha to behold the swelling scene." The Muse inspiring our fathers was the Genins of Liberty, all...

...expressed, joined to the conception itself, render it one of the most striking passages in our language. 6. On the day of the declaration of independence, our illustrious fathers performed the first act in this drama ; an act in real importance infinitely exceeding that for which the great English...

...expressed, joined to the conception itself, render it one of the most striking passages in out language. 6. On the day of the declaration of independence, our illustrious fathers performed the first act in this drama ; an act in real importance infinitely exceeding that for which the great English...

...seen, as we proceed, that for any purpose of pleasure of the intellect or of the heart, we need not " A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene," but that it will be sufficient to sit here awhile under the trees, and cast our eyes around on the...

...placed it apart) we may all find the miniature representation of that wider historic theatre which has A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene. Such indeed is the sameness of human motives and all the variety of external scenes of action, that...