| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...withholden, was changed into wrath ; when the arm, which had never supported, was raised to destroy. 5. Methinks I see it now, that one solitary, adventurous vessel, the Mayflower 3 of a forlorn hope, freighted with the prospects of a future State, and bound across the unknown sea.... | |
| William Carlos Martyn - England - 1867 - 502 pages
...such as then was hardly known in the world.t Then came the embarkation ; the sails were spread, and " the Mayflower of a forlorn hope, freighted with the prospects of a future state, plunged across the unknown sea." "We may not pause to rehearse the touching story of the long, cold,... | |
| Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 pages
...lutinist break all his strings because one is out of tune ?— CHARNOCK. THE PILGRIMS OF THE MAYFLOWER METHINKS I see it now, that one solitary, adventurous...voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, the winter surprises them in the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for shore. I see... | |
| Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...examples. Everett, in an oration on the Pilgrims, has a very eloquent passage, beginning with these words : "Methinks I see it now: that one solitary adventurous...a future state, and bound across the unknown sea." The whole passage is one of the sublimest descriptions in the English language. At the close of it... | |
| Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 392 pages
...an oration on the Pilgrims, has a very eloquent passage, beginning with these words: "Methinks I sec it now: that one solitary adventurous vessel, the...a future state, and bound across the unknown sea." The whole passage is one of the sublimest descriptions in the English language. At the close of it... | |
| Elocution - 1870 - 314 pages
...independence, now; and INDEPENDENCE FOREVER. XIV. — RESULTS OF THE HEROISM OF THE PILQRIMS. — E. Everett. Methinks I see it now, that one solitary, adventurous...the tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and montlis pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1870 - 636 pages
...Which is it ? Which shall yield ? America may decide Lxxxm. THE MAYFLOWER AND THE PILGRIMS. "VTETHINKS I see it now, that one solitary, adventurous vessel,...tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks, and monthr pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for... | |
| Edward Everett - 1870 - 690 pages
...unaided, barely tolerated, it did not fall when the arm which had never supported was raised to destroy. Methinks I see it now, that one solitary, adventurous...freighted with the prospects of a future state, and hound across the unknown sea. I behold it pursuing, with a thousand misgivings, the uncertain, the... | |
| Stephen Merrill Allen - Massachusetts - 1871 - 150 pages
...Channel and comes to Old Plymouth, the farthest port in southwestern England. " Methinks I see her now, the Mayflower of a forlorn hope, freighted with the prospects of a distant State, and bound across the unknown sea." She comes up Plymouth Bay; one hundred and twenty-eight... | |
| Stephen Merrill Allen - Massachusetts - 1871 - 92 pages
...Channel and comes to Old Plymouth, the farthest port in southwestern England. " Methinks I see her now, the Mayflower of a forlorn hope, freighted with the prospects of a distant State, and bound across the unknown sea." She comes up Plymouth Bay; one hundred and twenty-eight... | |
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