The Pleasures of Hope, and Other Poems: From the Last London EdLeavitt, Trow, 1849 - 186 pages |
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... brave people re- cently conspicuous in their struggles for independ- ence - description of the capture of Warsaw , of the last contest of the oppressors and the oppressed , and the massacre of the Polish patriots at the bridge of Prague ...
... brave people re- cently conspicuous in their struggles for independ- ence - description of the capture of Warsaw , of the last contest of the oppressors and the oppressed , and the massacre of the Polish patriots at the bridge of Prague ...
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... brave ! in peril's darkest hour , Intrepid Virtue looks to thee for power ; To thee the heart its trembling homage yields , On stormy floods , and carnage - cover'd fields , When front to front the banner'd hosts combine , Halt ere they ...
... brave ! in peril's darkest hour , Intrepid Virtue looks to thee for power ; To thee the heart its trembling homage yields , On stormy floods , and carnage - cover'd fields , When front to front the banner'd hosts combine , Halt ere they ...
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... brave ? Yet , though destruction sweep those lovely plains , Rise , fellow - men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name , we wave the sword on high ! And swear for her to live ! —with her to die ' He said , and on the rampart ...
... brave ? Yet , though destruction sweep those lovely plains , Rise , fellow - men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name , we wave the sword on high ! And swear for her to live ! —with her to die ' He said , and on the rampart ...
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... brave the seasons as he had done his enemies , and ventured to make long marches during this mortal cold . It was in one of these marches that two thousand inen fell down dead with cold before his eyes . " NOTE ( 6 , ) p . 44 . As ...
... brave the seasons as he had done his enemies , and ventured to make long marches during this mortal cold . It was in one of these marches that two thousand inen fell down dead with cold before his eyes . " NOTE ( 6 , ) p . 44 . As ...
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... brave in arms , And conscious of romance - inspiring charms , Dreamt of heroic beings ; hoped to find Some extant spirit of chivalric kind ; And scorning wealth , look'd cold e'en on the claim Of manly worth , that lack'd the wreath of ...
... brave in arms , And conscious of romance - inspiring charms , Dreamt of heroic beings ; hoped to find Some extant spirit of chivalric kind ; And scorning wealth , look'd cold e'en on the claim Of manly worth , that lack'd the wreath of ...
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