 Him! cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom ; falling ere he saw the star of his country rise; pouring out his generous blood like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage! —...  The Works of Daniel Webster - Page lxviiby Daniel Webster - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 656 pages
...safely apply the words which WEBSTER from Bunker Hill addressed to the soul of its departed hero : " Our poor work may perish, but thine shall endure !...rests upon may sink down to a level with the sea ; but his memory shall not fail. Wherever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! 9. How shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail ! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty,... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1878 - 658 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions, that stifle...the utterance of thy name ! Our poor work may perish : hot thine shall endure ! This monument may moulder away ; the solid ground it rests upon may sink... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1879 - 508 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! 9. How shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...perish, but thine shall endure ! This monument may molder away ; the solid ground it rests upon may sink down to a level with the sea ; but thy memory... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 pages
...generous blood like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage! — how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle the utterance of thy name ! 1 Our poor work may perish; but thine shall endure! This monument may moulder away; the solid ground... | |
 | 1880 - 698 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ' how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...to a level with the sea; but thy memory shall not iail! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found, that beats to the transports of patriotism and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1881 - 650 pages
...the hero fell, his beloved and beautiful image rising from the ground, he can no longer speak of him. Willing subject of his own witchery, he clothes his...moulder away; the solid ground it rests upon may sink dowu to a level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail!" CHAPTER V. Election to Congress from... | |
 | 1881 - 710 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondagei how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...level with the sea; but thy memory shall not fail! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found, that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty,... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Mackenzie - 1881 - 504 pages
...great martyr in this great cause ! Him ! the premature victim of his own self-devoting heart ! . . . Our poor work may perish, but thine shall endure !...level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail ! " I still feel the thrill stirred by the majestic power of voice and action with which, in allusion... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 pages
...the subject, suddenly turns to the patriot dead >\s though present, and thus addresses hi in : — 4. "How shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...level with the sea; but thy memory shall not fail! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that boats to the transports of patriotism and liberty,... | |
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