Boston CommonW.D. Ticknor and H.B. Williams, 1842 - 63 Seiten |
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Seite 30 - Thus they. While with one voice the Trojans said, 480 "Grant this day, Jove ! or heap us on the dead !" Then clash their sounding arms ; the clangours rise, And shake the brazen concave of the skies. Meantime, at distance from the scene of blood, The pensive steeds of great Achilles stood ; Their godlike master, slain before their eyes, They wept, and shared in human miseries. In vain Automedon now shakes the rein, Now plies the lash, and soothes and threats in vain ; Nor to the fight nor Hellespont...
Seite 11 - Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Seite 59 - Ye living men, come view the ground, "Where you must shortly lie. 2 Princes, this clay must be your bed, In spite of all your towers! The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
Seite 18 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen. The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Seite 7 - Hereafter there shall be no land granted either for house plot or garden to any person, out of the open ground or common field, which is left between the Sentry Hill and Mr.
Seite 23 - ... desert rejoiced and blossomed as the rose. We might almost take the description of it from the language of prophecy. The lamb lies down in the den of the wolf; and where the wild beast prowled, is now the grazing ox. " The cow and the bear feed, and their young ones lie down together. The suckling child plays on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child puts his hand on the adder's den.
Seite 14 - LAFAYETTE said, when in Boston, "The world should never forget the spot where once stood Liberty Tree, so famous in your annals." It has been the care of David Sears that this injunction should not fall to the ground unheeded. In the wall of the building at the southeast corner of Essex Street, at its junction with Washington, we see a handsome freestone bas-relief, representing a tree with wide-spreading branches. This memorial...
Seite 30 - Plac'd on the hero's grave. Along their face, The big round drops cours'd down with silent pace, Conglobing on the dust. Their manes, that late Circled their arched necks, and wav'd in state, Trail'd on the dust beneath the yoke were spread. And prone to earth was hung their languid head...
Seite 22 - Whate'er in life may be my varied lot, Boston, dear Boston, ne'er shall be forgot.
Seite 44 - ... an artificial vogue to a place or thing which is obviously inferior to a thing of the same kind which the common people enjoy. This is probably the reason for the fact, which it is true we have no court calendar to confirm, but which is sufficiently obvious, that it is considered more genteel to promenade on the brick side-walk, outside of the Common, than in the mall.