| Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. And is the Negro outlaw 'd from his birth ? Is he alone a stranger on the earth? Is there no shed,... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a ipot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. Where man, creation's tyrant, cast« aside Ни sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest: Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softened... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...Deams his own land of every land the pride, Bsloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; His HOME the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. And is the Negro outlawed from his binh ? ' • Is he alone a stranger on the earth ? Is there no shed,... | |
| 1835 - 616 pages
...purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole : Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found ? Art thou a man, a patriot ? — look around, Oh ! thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, Thailand thy country, and that spot thy home." In... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1835 - 924 pages
...graces lie ; Around her knees domestic dutit:a meet, Aid fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. Wbere shall that land, that spot of earth be found » Art thou a man? a patriot? look around; Oh, thou shall find, howe'er thy footsteps roam. That land thy country, and that spot thy home. Mr.... | |
| England - 1835 - 802 pages
...more than realized the picture of domestic bliss so finely pourtrayed by the poet : — * There is n spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, motion's tyrant, casts nside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his soften'd... | |
| Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...trembles to that pole; For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened... | |
| 1836 - 496 pages
...to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...to that pole : For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened... | |
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