...thinking of, when he wrote, in one of the most glorious of his poems, — ' Oh, Freedom ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair, young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses !' ? Why, she ' isn't anything else !' if we may judge by the general aspect of most of our companies,...

...dim ' path of years, Back ' to the curliest days of Liberty. О FBBEIJO.M ! thou art not, as pjets ' dream, A fair young girl, with light ' and delicate...man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Д Grasps the broad shield, and one | the t word ; thy bro#, Glorious in beauty | though it be, is...

...some portions of our countrymen what they are reported to lack — backbone: "Oh. Freedom ! thon art not, AS poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gives. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth art thou ; one mailed hand Graips the broad shield, and one...

...thoughts go up the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. O FREEDOM! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crown'd his slave, When he took ofl' the gyves. A bearded man, Arm'd to the teeth, art thou : one mailed...

...thoughts go up the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. 0 FREEDOM ! thou art not as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crown'd his slave, When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Ann'd to the teeth, art thou : one mailed...

...thoughts go up the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of liberty. Oh FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Eoman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou;...

...with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitst the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth art thou : one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword. Blest be the day I scaped the wrangling craw from Pyrrho's maze and Epicurus' sty, And held high converse...

...must take. B is from a poem named, " The Antiquity of Freedom," by its author. " 0 Freedom ! Thou art not as poets dream, A fair young girl with light and delicate limbs." What a swimming character is given to this line by the redundant syllable. Does not the image brought...

...without doubt, we should have had the better, but I doubted it. MY PAET IN ITALY. " Oh Freedom I Thou art not as poets dream, A fair young girl with light and delicate limbs — ****»» A bearded man — armed to the teeth — art thou ! Thy brow, glorious in beauty though...

...their edification upon its merits, great as we ourselves conceive these to be. " 0 Freedom! Thou art not as poets dream, A fair young girl with light and delicate limbs." What a swimming character is given to this line by the redundant syllable. Does not the image brought...