My Quarter Century of American Politics, Volume 1

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Harper & Brothers, 1920
 

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Page 349 - The time has been That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: This is more strange Than such a murder is.
Page 69 - Then and there was hurrying to and fro, • •••••• And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war.
Page 3 - A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled; When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead! Then, pay the reverence of old days To his dead fame; Walk backward, with averted gaze, And hide the shame!
Page 349 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. The
Page 233 - O blindness to the future kindly given That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven, Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall. The
Page 349 - their party and this Senate bill more. [Laughter.] I can say with Mark Antony: "What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That made them do it; they are wise and honorable.
Page 151 - I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. It
Page 254 - the advice of Polonius to Laertes: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Page 25 - Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books.
Page 23 - daughter that he has reared with loving care may become ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him when he

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