 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...least, that cnrtain mny not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it mny be, in frntenial blood I Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gnrgeous... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States severed, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 282 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent ; or on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 286 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent; or on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...ante-rooms and stairways, as he pronounced in deepest tones of pathos these words of solemn significance: 'When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 164 pages
...pronounce soil to rhyme with isle ; but give the oi its true sound, as in coin. LIBERTY AND UNION. WHEN my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known... | |
 | History - 1857 - 650 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1856 - 764 pages
...fine piece of rhetoric misplaced, for want of circumstances to justify it. He liad concluded thus : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 656 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood 1 Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 690 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may bo opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil fends, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather... | |
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When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or... 
