 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...shine, With gold unfading, Washington ! be thine. This was Washington's reply: — Cambridye, February Id, 1776. Miss PniLLis: Your favour of the 26th... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine, With gold uufadiug, Washington ! be thine. This was Washington's reply : — Cambridge, February 2d, 1776. Miss... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1875 - 650 páginas
...of the siege of Boston, that Phillis Wheatley dedicated to him her poems, with the wish that, — " A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine With gold unfading, Washington, be thine! " Poor Washington got the book in the middle of December, and actually apologized on the 2d of February... | |
 | Monroe Alphus Majors - 1893 - 400 páginas
...thy thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, virtue on thy side; Thy every action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...that shine With gold unfading, Washington, be thine. It will be seen that Phillis refers to America as Columbia, the origin of which saying is erroneously... | |
 | Agnes Mawson - 1905 - 206 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtues on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...shine, With gold unfading, Washington, be thine.* Extracts from " Under the Old Elm." Poem read at Cambridge on the Hundredth Anniversary of Washington's... | |
 | John Wesley Cromwell - 1914 - 342 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side Thy every action let the goddess guide, A crown, a mansion, and a throne...that shine With gold unfading, Washington, be thine ! XIX BENJAMIN BANNEKER A LITTLE more than one hundred years ago a black prince arrived on the shores... | |
 | Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - 1920 - 408 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...that shine With gold unfading, Washington be thine! — PHYLLIS WHEATLEY. ABRAHAM LINCOLN FAR in the West, in forest wild, Was born one day, to us, a child;... | |
 | James Weldon Johnson - 1922 - 278 páginas
...meaning is given to the closing lines of her ode to General Washington, she was a decided royalist: "A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine With gold unfading, Washington! be thine." Nevertheless, she was an ardent patriot. Her ode to General Washington (1775), her spirited poem, "On... | |
 | Rupert Hughes - 1927 - 746 páginas
...increase the rising hills of dead. . . . Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne...shine, With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! be thine." For this sonorous paean from Ethiopia, Washington wrote a charming acknowledgment to the young negress:... | |
 | George Washington - 1931 - 684 páginas
...thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine, With gold unfading, WASHINGTON I be thine." — Pennsylvania Magazine, April, 1776. "The text from which this letter is taken was... | |
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... on the scales, For in their hopes Columbia's arm prevails. Anon Britannia droops the pensive head, While round increase the rising hills of dead. Ah! cruel blindness to Columbia's state! Lament thy thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great... 
