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, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill. 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, Gin ye 'll consent to be his bride, Nor think o' Donald mair. 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 Laurei. Act ii. Sc. 1 The moon had climb'd the highest hill And from the eastern summit shed 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, Hope, and comfort from above; Let us each, thy peace possessing, Triumph in redeeming love. 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, JOSEPH 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 |