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Chapter XII Old Age
ONCE more,' the old man cried, ye clouds, Airy turrets purple-piled, Which once my infancy beguiled, Beguile me with the wonted spell. I know ye skilful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy Into rude and homely nooks, Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books, On farmer's byre, on pasture rude, And stony…
VI The Fugitive Slave Law
VI THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW ADDRESS TO CITIZENS OF CONCORD 3 MAY, 1851 THE Eternal Rights, Victors over daily wrongs: Awful victors, they misguide Whom they will destroy, And their coming triumph hide In our downfall, or our joy: They reach no term, they never sleep, In equal strength through space abide; Though, feigning dwarfs,…
XVI Harvard Commeroration Speech
HARVARD COMMEMORATION SPEECH JULY 21, 1865 ” ‘ Old classmate, say Do you remember our Commencement Day ? Were we such boys as these at twenty ? ‘ Nay, God called them to a nobler task than ours, And gave them holier thoughts and manlier powers, – This is the day of fruits and not…
I History
There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere. I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Caesar’s hand, and Plato’s brain, Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakspeare’s strain. ESSAY I History There…
XXV Walter Scott
XXV WALTER SCOTT REMARKS AT THE CELEBRATION BY THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE CENTENNIAL NNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, AUGUST 15, 1871 Scott, the delight of generous boys. Â As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him. . . . Our concern is…
The Comic
A TASTE for fun is all but universal in our species, which is the only joker in nature. The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in their presence. And as the lower nature does not jest, neither does the highest. The Reason…