 | Daniel Webster - 1895 - 202 pages
...and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless. 14. But ah ! Him ! the first great martyr2 in this great cause ! Him ! the premature victim of...hither but the unquenchable fire of his own spirit ! 1 In the United States Navy Yard, situated at the base of the Hill. 2 General Joseph Warren. Him... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1896 - 72 pages
...mid-noon";1 5 and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless. But ah ! Him ! the first great martyr in this great cause ! Him ! the premature victim of...military bands, whom nothing brought hither but the 10 unquenchable fire of his own spirit ! Him ! cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1897 - 54 pages
...Webster was not used to exaggerate. And he knew what he was saying : But, ah! Him! the first great martyr in this great cause ! Him ! the premature victim of...fire of his own spirit. Him ! cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom, falling, ere he saw the star of his country rise... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pages
...— and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless. But, ah ! him, the first great martyr in this great cause; him, the premature victim of...fire of his own spirit ; him, cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom ; falling ere he saw the star of his country rise;... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1898 - 514 pages
..."; • and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless. But, ah! Him! the first great martyr in this great cause! Him! the premature victim of...fire of his own spirit! Him ! cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom ; falling ere he saw the star of his country rise;... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1898 - 364 pages
..." ; and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless. But, ah ! Him, the first great martyr in this great cause ! Him, the premature victim of...fire of his own spirit ! Him, cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming Wiii outlast anxiety and thick gloom; falling ere he saw the the Granite... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark, Frederic Mason Blanchard - 1899 - 326 pages
...the sky, on which you closed your eyes, was cloudless. But — ah ! — him ! the first great martyr in this great cause! him! the premature victim of...fire of his own spirit ; him ! cut off by Providence, in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom ; falling ere he saw the star of his country rise... | |
 | 1900 - 448 pages
...mid-noon," and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless. But—ah!—Him I the first great martyr in this great cause! Him! the premature victim of...hither but the unquenchable fire of his own spirit; himl cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom; falling ere he saw... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 704 pages
...the first great martyr in this great cause ! Him ! the premature victim of his own self -de voting heart ! Him ! the head of our civil councils, and...but the unquenchable fire of his own spirit ! Him I cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom ; falling ere he saw the... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 702 pages
...grave ; this monument may moulder away ; and many others, as also constant balancing of elements, as, the head of our civil councils, and the destined leader of our military bands. III. The Imaginative Type This type of prose diction has been called "the special and opportune art... | |
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Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless. But, ah! Him! the first great martyr in this great cause! Him! the premature victim of his own self-devoting heart ! Him! the head of our civil councils, and the destined leader... 
