...t _5 About the Taper’s flame at evening hour; ‘Till kindle in that monumental fire His sunflower wings their own funereal pyre? 2. 2. 2. 2. 2.... ...ad scathed in the wilderness, to stand _260 A monument of fadeless ruin there; Yet peacefully and movelessly it braves Th... ...cting beyond that eternal circle within which all things are included. God breaks through the law of nature, that He may convince mankind of the truth... ...the causes of so much individual rivalship, such calamitous and sanguinary national disputes. In the history of modern times, the ava- rice of commerc... ...trong the power and dire the fate, Which drags me from the depths of Hell, Breaks the tomb’s eternal gate, Where fiendish shapes and dead men yell, ... ... _10 In air whilst the tide of the night-storm is rolling, It breaks on the pause of the elements’ jar. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. On the wing of the... ... night Have I ‘scaped the flickering flame. Like the scathed pine, which a monument stands _5 Of faded grandeur, which the brands Of the te... ...hose azure night With golden stars, like heaven, was bright O’er the split cedar’s pointed flame; 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. Lines 1168-1170. Sunk (line 1170) mus...

...nts, because it is in convenient; that is, it is the moral character that breaks W alden 30 down. But this puts an infinitely worse face on the matt... ...lish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. I love better to see stones in place. The gra... ...ok down on it, mankind begin to look up at it. As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who under took to di... ... to admire the hole which he made. Many are concerned about Walden 54 the monuments of the West and the East to know who built them. For my part, I ... ...sand because of what did go out or Walden 110 was split up; pine, spruce, cedar first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one qua... ...at the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood beyond Flint’s W alden 183 Pond, where the trees, covered with ... ...ective musi cal bands stationed on some eminent chip, and play ing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants.... ...soon got a thick new garment to take the place of the old. This pond never breaks up so soon as the others in this neighborhood, on account both of it... ...n is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other but breaks in pieces. When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few w...

... learned men re puted in this land, Mr. Selden; whose volume of natural and national laws proves, not only by great authorities Areopagitica Milto... ...r these are the countryman’s Arcadias, and his Monte Mayors. Next, what more national corruption, for which En gland hears ill abroad, than household... ... every knowing per son alive, and most injurious to the written labours and monuments of the dead, so to me it seems an under valuing and vilifying ... ...rd was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, oth ers hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irratio nal men who could not consider... ... walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the... ...ire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the m... ...bring. There eternal Summer dwells; And west winds with musky wing About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia’s balmy smells. Iris there with humid...

...ts to con- nect his own human institutes with the venerable sanctions of a national religion, or the case where a learned antiquary unfolds historical... ...ing such, you will participate in all advantages, if any there are, or our national religion; and, without needing a process of conversion, either in ... ...ituents in pagan idolatries. First, then, as to the CULTUS, or form of the national worship:—In our Christian ritual I recognise these separate acts; ... ... enlightened mind would figure to itself as lowest in man. A more shocking monument, indeed, there cannot be than this, of the infinity by which man m... ...tain. The impression which he re- ceives is pretty much like that from the monumental figure of some allegoric being, such as Faith or Hope, Fame or T... ...her great Protestant doctrine of Toleration. It was but the same triumphal monument under a new angle of sight, the golden and silver faces of the sam... ...rit of all. Besides, the religion which trusts to formal and literal rules breaks down the very moment that a new case arises not described in the rul... ...mals, considered as individuals. Among trees, in like manner, the oak, the cedar, the yew, are notori- ously of very slow growth, and their aeonian pe...

...ring tell Of BABEL, and the works of MEMPHIAN Kings, Learn how thir greatest Monuments of Fame, And Strength and Art are easily outdone By Spirits rep... ... such from mercy I exclude. But yet all is not don; Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns Against the high Supremacie of Heav’n, Affe... ..., Access deni’d; and over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and Pine, and Firr, and branching Palm, A Silvan Scene, and as the... ...es, Not unconform to other shining Globes, Earth and the Gard’n of God, with Cedars crownd Above all Hills. As when by night the Glass Of GALILEO, le... ...aradise Lost Milton 87 For ever happie: him who disobeyes Mee disobeyes, breaks union, and that day Cast out from God and blessed vision, falls In... ...ound, under a cloud In prospect; there the Eagle and the Stork On Cliffs and Cedar tops thir Eyries build: Part loosly wing the Region, part more wise... ...ath Over this Maine from Hell to that new World Where Satan now prevailes, a Monument Of merit high to all th’ infernal Host, Easing thir passage henc... ...ssie Terfe, and pile up every Stone Of lustre from the brook, in memorie, Or monument to Ages, and thereon Offer sweet smelling Gumms & Fruits and Flo... ... thir earthly CANAAN plac’t Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when sins National interrupt thir public peace, Provoking God to raise them enemies...

...ith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not m... ...porter of the Government during the war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June,... ...and Lieutenant George G. Meade, afterwards the commander of the victorious National army at the battle of Gettysburg—made a reconnoissance to the Salt... ... San Francisco sailing vessel going after lum- ber. Red wood, a species of cedar, which on the Pacific coast takes the place filled by white pine in t... ...uctures that had been built during the months of May and June were left as monuments to the skill of the engineer, and others were constructed in a fe... ...d, rises almost per- 325 U. S. Grant pendicularly for some distance, then breaks off in a gentle slope of cultivated fields to near the summit, where... ... longer needed in North Caro- lina; and Sigel’s troops having gone back to Cedar Creek, whipped, many troops could be spared from the valley. The Wild... ...ws: City Point, VA., October 14, 1864.—12.30 P .M. Major-General Sheridan, Cedar Creek, Va. What I want is for you to threaten the Virginia Central Ra... ...erry; but owing to the difficulty of navigation by reason of low water and breaks in the railroad, great delay was experienced in getting there. It be...