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A History of American Literature: With a View to the Fundamental Principles ...

Fred Lewis Pattee - History - 1896 - 496 pages
...captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone and, standing like a tower, Our...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American ; " and the forty lines of Under the Old Him, commencing " Virginia gave us this imperial man," should...
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Mere Literature, and Other Essays

Woodrow Wilson - Americana - 1896 - 270 pages
...Great captains with their guns and drams Disturb our judgment for the hour; But at last silence comes: These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." It is a poet's verdict; but it rings in the authentic tone of the seer. It must be also the verdict...
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Mere Literature, and Other Essays

Woodrow Wilson - Americana - 1896 - 256 pages
...Great captains with their gnus and drums Disturb our judgment for the hour; But at last silence comes: These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." It is a poet's verdict; but it rings in the authentic tone of the seer. It must be also the verdict...
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English Poetry..: With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 3

English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. VII Long as man's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal Outside of Self,...
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Messiah Pulpit, Volume 4

Sermons, American - 1899 - 642 pages
...captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Father, we thank Thee for him, Thy great, noble son. We thank Thee that we are fellow-countrymen of...
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Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Issue 29

Illinois State Historical Library - Illinois - 1923 - 182 pages
...part in bringing to full flower the character so vividly portrayed by Lowell — "The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." 58 ON AND ABOUT THE NATIONAL ROAD IN THE EARLY FIFTIES. [By DR. CHARLES B. JOHNSON.] The whip how it...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 87

Literature - 1865 - 658 pages
...Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like • tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest,...patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of onr new soil, the first American. — Atlantic Monthly. 288 LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. -NO. 1120.- 18 NOVEMBER,...
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Papers in Illinois History and Transactions

Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1923 - 182 pages
...part in bringing to full flower the character so vividly portrayed by Lowell — "The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." 58 ON AND ABOUT THE NATIONAL ROAD IN THE EARLY FIFTIES. [By DR. CHARLES B. JOHNSON.] The whip how it...
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Western Journal of Education, Volumes 33-34

Education - 1927 - 506 pages
...lured by any cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Lincoln's sayings were wise, and many have been pre*—' served. His epigrams are quoted almost as...
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Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume 8

New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1900 - 322 pages
...standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-eainest, brave, foreseeing mnu, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." It is a poet's verdict; but it rings in the authentic tone of the seer. It must also be the verdict...
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