In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested. RICHARD HURD (1720-1808): Sermons. Vol. ii. p. 287. There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine. JAMES WOLFE (1726-1759): Despatch to Pitt, Sept. 2, 1759. Kathleen mavourneen! the grey dawn is breaking, ANNE CRAWFORD (1734–1801): Kathleen Mavourneen. Who can refute a sneer? WILLIAM PALEY (1743-1805): Moral Philosophy. Vol. ii. Why should the Devil have all the good tunes? ROWLAND HILL (1744-1833). Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? THOMAS HOLCROFT (1745-1809): Gaffer Grey. Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY (1746-1825), - when Ambassador to the French Republic, 1796. And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare, SUSANNA BLAMIRE (1747-1794): The Siller Croun. A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together. JOHN O'KEEFE (1747-1833): Sprigs of Laurel. Act ii. Sc. 1. The moon had climb'd the highest hill And from the eastern summit shed JOHN LOWE (1750--): Mary's Dream. Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and child of the skies! TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752-1817): Columbia. Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing, ROBERT HAWKER (1753-1827): Benediction. Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch? ANNE GRANT (1755-1838): Roy's Wife. Bounding billows, cease your motion, MARY ROBINSON (1758–1799): Bounding Billows. While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS (1762-1827): Trust in Providence. The glory dies not, and the grief is past. SAMUEL EGERton Brydges (1762-1837): Sonnet on the Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar. JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1857): Oh swiftly glides the Bonnie Boat. 'T was whisper'd in heaven, 't was mutter'd in hell, CATHERINE M. FANSHAWE (1764-1834): Enigma. The letter H. Oh, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island. THOMAS DIBDIN (1771-1841): The snug little Island. And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves. ROBERT TREAT PAINE (1772-1811): Adams and Liberty. They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. ROGER B. TANEY (1777-1864): The Dred Scott Case (Howard, To make a mountain of a mole-hill. HENRY ELLIS (1777-1869): Original Letters. Second March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us. B. E. O'MEARA (1778-1836): March to the Battle-Field. Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. STEPHEN DECATUR (1779-1820): Toast given at Norfolk, Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, JOSEPHI STORY (1779-1845); Motto of the " Salem Register." Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. ROBERT EMMET (1780-1803): Speech on his Trial and Conviction for High Treason, September, 1803. Imitation is the sincerest flattery. C. C. COLTON (1780-1832): The Lacon. Behold how brightly breaks the morning! JAMES KENNEY (1780-1849): Behold how brightly breaks. Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laugh'd and danc'd and talk'd and sung. PRINCESS AMELIA (1783-1810). A sound so fine, there's nothing lives. 'Twixt it and silence. JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES (1784-1862): Virginius, Act v. Sc. 2. We have met the enemy, and they are ours. OLIVER H. PERRY (1785-1820): Letter to General Harrison (dated "United States Brig Niagara. Off the Western Sisters. Sept. 10, 1813, 4 P. M."). Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, EATON S. BARRETT (1785-1820): Woman, Part i. (ed. 1822). They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. WILLIAM L. MARCY (1786-1857): Speech in the United States Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace." WINFIELD SCOTT (1786-1861): Letter to W. H. Seward, Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep. EMMA WILLARD (1787-1870): The Cradle of the Deep. Right as a trivet. R. H. BARHAM (1788-1845) The Ingoldsby Legends. Auto-da-fe. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground to die. RICHARD HENRY WILDE (1789-1847): My Life is like the Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne. a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own. originality. CHARLES PHILLIPS (1789-1859): The Character of Napoleon. Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down; Rise up! come to the window, and gaze with all the town. JOHN G LOCKHART (1794-1854): The Bridal of Andalla. By the margin of fair Zurich's waters. Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away. CHARLES DANCE (1794-1863): Fair Zurich's Waters. I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one. JOHN G. C. BRAINARD (1795-1828): I saw Two Clouds at Morning. On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break JAMES G. PERCIVAL (1795-1856): To Seneca Lake. What fairy-like music steals over the sea, MRS. C. B. WILSON (—-1846): What Fairy-like Music. Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796-1849): She is not Fair. |