Life PicturesTaylor-Trotwood publishing Company, 1907 - 384 σελίδες |
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Albert Sidney Johnston Andrew Jackson angels battle beautiful bird bless blood bloom bosom brain brow Brudder cabin castle civilization dark darky death Dixie door dream earth eternal eyes face fiddle fields flowers forever gather glorious glory GOVERNOR TAYLOR hand happy heard heart heaven hills honor hope human ISHAM G John Howard Payne king kiss Ladies and Gentlemen land laugh laughter liberty light lips live lock canal looked Mark Antony melody mighty millions morning moshun mountains mule nations never Nicodemus night old fiddler palace palace of love Paradise peace pleasure possum river rose shadows shouted sing sleep smiles song soul South Southern spirit stars Stonewall Jackson stood sunshine sweet swing tears Tennesseans Tennessee Texas thought thousand to-day turned Uncle Rastus United States Senate vanished wealth whip-poor-will wings young youth
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 84 - Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose ! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Σελίδα 92 - Cassius' dagger through: See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus...
Σελίδα 182 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Σελίδα 372 - Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Σελίδα 355 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Σελίδα 155 - Come to the bridal chamber, death ! Come to the mother when she feels For the first time her firstborn's breath...
Σελίδα 372 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride — That hour o...
Σελίδα 311 - Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown like rural lanes, and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. Beleaguered by the sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring.
Σελίδα 155 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Σελίδα 372 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!