 | James Montgomery - 1810 - 218 sidor
...his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heav'n o'er all the world beside ; His home I lie spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. And is the Negro outlaw'd from his birth ? Is he alone a stranger on the earth ? • Is there no shed,... | |
 | 1811 - 424 sidor
...every clime the magnet of his soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole : For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's...man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband,... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 sidor
...peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest гясе, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, Л dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband,... | |
 | 1810 - 478 sidor
...soul, Tbuch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole : For in this land of heaven's peculiar gntee, The 'heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, JL dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest; Where man, creation'« tyrant, casts Mid« i His swcrd and... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1814 - 178 sidor
...clime the magnet of his soul, Toiich'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's...man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in hig sol'tcn'd looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband,... | |
 | 1814 - 642 sidor
...pleasures. " There is a land, of every land the pride, Belov'd by heaven o'er all the woild beside." " There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than ail the rest." Then, alter enlarging more fully on the subject, he continues : " Where shall that land,... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1814 - 396 sidor
...the magnet of his soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole; For in this land of Heav'n's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot on earth, supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 sidor
...the magnet of his soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of Heav'n's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race,...man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride. While in his goften'd looks benignly blend Tne sire, the son, the hushand,... | |
 | 1818 - 596 sidor
...soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that polii For in this land of heaven's peculiar gract*, The heritage of nature's noblest race ; There is a...the rest; Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside Mis sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his soflen'd looks benignly blend The sire, (he... | |
 | 1818 - 166 sidor
...keen the pang, when I recollected my father's house, so aptly expressed in the words of a poet : 28 *' There is a spot of earth supremely blest, " A dearer,...man, creation's tyrant casts aside " His sword and sceptre, pagantry and pride, " While in his softened looks benignly blend " The sire, the son, the... | |
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There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest... 
