Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill: Together with Anecdotes and Incidents of His TravelsWilliam Knight Northall |
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Page 174 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No! men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 176 - Oh, never may a son of thine, Where'er his wandering steps incline, Forget the sky which bent above His childhood like a dream of love; The stream beneath the green hill flowing, The broad-armed trees above it growing, The clear breeze through the foliage blowing ; Or hear, unmoved, the taunt of scorn Breathed o'er the brave New England born...
Page 176 - Land of the beautiful and brave — The freeman's home — the martyr's grave — The nursery of giant men, Whose deeds have linked with every glen, And every hill and every stream, The romance of some warrior dream...
Page 176 - Land of the forest and the rock, Of dark blue lake and mighty river, Of mountains rear'd aloft to mock The storm's career, the lightning's shock, My own green land for ever.
Page 29 - His eyes were set deep in their sockets, and something like a pig's, only the colour was not as good. His nose pushed boldly out, as it started from the lower part of his forehead, as though it meant to be something, but when it had reached half its destination, it bent suddenly in like a parrot's beak. His upper lip was long and thin, and was stretched on a sort of rack, which...
Page 103 - ... the shadow of a doubt, whether we are to be protected, or not, by this government, or are we tew be trampled under the iron hoofs of Europe's roaring Bull. We are strong and true at heart for our country, but we are as yet too few in number to offer just resistance. Give us a chance for a few years, however, and we will then look out for ourselves. " Yet the time is not far off, when the locomotive will be steaming its way to the Rocky Mountains, with a mighty big train of cars running after...
Page 103 - ... and slipped its cable, and is now rattling down the mighty Valley of the Mississippi, accompanied by the music of the alligator's hornpipe. Citizens and fellers ; on the bloody ground on which our fathers catawampously poured out their claret free as ile, to enrich the soil over which we now honour and watch with hyena eyes, let the catamount of the inner varmint loose and prepare the engines of vengeance, for the long looked-for day has come.
Page 30 - Very well, jump into the river, there is plenty of water." " I tell you, I want a bathe." "Well, don't I tell you to jump in, you can swim across if you like ; we shall not start just yet.
Page 29 - ... of the collar that could be found in his domestic menagerie of reserved rags. The buttons, which one would naturally look for at the bottom of the waist, had wandered up between his shoulders. The coat was remarkably long, extending from high up on the shoulders to the lower part of the calves of his legs. He was slightly roundshouldered, so that when he stood right up, a small lady might have found shelter in a rain storm in the vacancy left beween the coat and the back.
Page 121 - Boston : he didn't die there, 'cause he died in Philadelphia. He used to wear an old genuine '76 coat, little cut down to suit the fashion, made it a razee. One might have known the old man a mile off. If it hadn't been for Cousin Guss, he'd * By GH Hill. have been livin' to this ere day. You may see Guss in Chestnut Street — any of you know him ? — dressed like a peacock, and got whiskers big enough to stuff a sofa bottom. He went down t'other day to see the wild beasts in 5th street ; jest...