 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1810 - 218 pages
...polej For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There in a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, caste aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his... | |
 | Charities - 1811 - 424 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... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...trembles to that pole; For in this landof 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 scepire, pageantry and pride, While in his... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Africa - 1814 - 396 pages
...pride, While, in his soften'd looks, benignly blend, The sire, the son> the husband, brother, friend. Here woman reigns, the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life, In the clear hcav'u of her delightful eye, An angel guard of loves and graces lie; Around her knees... | |
 | James Montgomery - Slave trade - 1814 - 178 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 hig... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 642 pages
...pleasures. " There is a land, of every land the pride, Belov'd by heaven o'er all the woild beside." " There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than ail the rest." Then, alter enlarging more fully on the subject, he continues : " Where shall that land,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...to that pole ; For in this land of Heav'n'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... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...to that polii For in this land of heaven's peculiar gract*, 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 Mis sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his... | |
 | Marriage - 1818 - 166 pages
...keen the pang, when I recollected my father's house, so aptly expressed in the words of a poet : 28 *' 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, pagantry and pride, " While in... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...trembles 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 shall that land, that spot ofear.th be found/ Art thou a man 2—a patriot?—look around?... | |
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There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest... 
