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Page 207 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 183 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 172 - Didn't you deliber de tree chill'un from de firy furnis ? Didn't you hear Jonah cry from de belly ob de whale ? Oh, if dere be one seeking mourner here dis afternoon, if dere be one sinking Peter, if dere be one weeping Mary, if dere be one doubting Thomas, won't you be so pleased to come and deliber them ? Won't you mount your gospel horse an...
Page 22 - Hark ! hark ! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags and some in tags, And some in velvet gowns.
Page 172 - Won't you be so pleased to come wid de love in one han' and de fan in de odder han' to fan away doubts ? Won't you be so pleased to shake dese yere souls over hell, and not let 'em fall in?
Page 148 - Stedman, and a part of the line to the right and left of it, established themselves and turned the guns of the fort against us; but our troops on either flank held their ground until the reserves were brought up, when the enemy was driven back with a heavy loss in killed and wounded, and one thousand nine hundred prisoners.
Page 21 - The summons was immediately obeyed, and forthwith mounted guards were stationed at the door of every ward. ' Our men must have been asleep to let you come into Maryland,' said one of our hospital stewards to a sternlooking rebel.
Page 87 - Then their train of baggage and supply wagons, winding along for a mile or two, and this is the last we see of the cavalry. A few hours pass on, and looking far away, over the hills, we see a long, dark line in motion; and experience tells us that it is a body of infantry. As they come out of the shadow of the hill, their bayonets begin to gleam, so that now, in the sunshine, they look like a line of...
Page 87 - ... come pouring on, officers riding at the head of their various commands, colors and battle-flags waving on the air, some of them pierced and torn in many places, but borne all the more proudly, and guarded the more sacredly, for that.
Page 86 - A few hours pass, and looking far away over the hills we see a long, dark line in motion, and experience tells us that it is a body of infantry. As they come out of the shadow of the hill, their bayonets begin to gleam, so that now, in the sunshine, they look like a line of blazing light, and come...