| Esther Copley - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 814 pages
...Deems his own land of every laud the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; His home a 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 upou earth ? Is there no shed, whose... | |
| W. S. Matthews, Thomas Rawson Taylor - 1836 - 406 pages
...watchfulness. It was an arrangement, moreover, most grateful to his own feelings. Home was ever to him " the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.*' And it was happy for him that the genial influences of suck a home were shed so abundantly on the feelings... | |
| 1836 - 496 pages
...trembles to that pols: 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 nil the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and eceptre, pageantry and pride,... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...duties meet. And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feel. " Where shall lhat land, that tpotafcarlh be found?' Art thou a man ? — a patriot > — look around ; O, thou shall find, howe'er ihy footsteps roam, That land Ay country, and lhat spot thy home ! On Greenland's... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 922 pages
...in this land of heaven's peculiar grace. The heritage of Nature's noblest race. There ¡я a »pot 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... | |
| 1837 - 638 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." There is a simplicity and a natural fluency about Mr. Montgomery's versification, to our taste, infinitely... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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. THE PATRIOT. SWELL, swell the shrill trumpet clear sounding afar, Our sabres flash splendour around... | |
| Andrews Norton - Apologetics - 1839 - 844 pages
...innocence. " There is a land, of every land the pride ; Beloved of heaven o'er all the world beside ; There is a spot, of earth supremely blest, A dearer,...Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found ? • • . • • 0 thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, that spot,... | |
| Readers - 1839 - 428 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... | |
| 536 pages
...trembles tothat pole; Foriti 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 Ihe rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride. While... | |
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