JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 1767-1848. This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, Written in an Album, 1842. ANDREW JACKSON. 1767-1845. Our Federal Union: it must be preserved. Toast given on the Jefferson Birthday Celebration in 1830. JOSIAH QUINCY. 1772-1864. If this bill (for the admission of Orleans Territory as a State) passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation, and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.2 1 Abridged Cong. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811. Vol. iv. p. 327. Manus hæc inimica tyrannis Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem. - Algernon Sidney. 2 The gentleman (Mr. Quincy) cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." Henry Clay, Speech, Jan. 8, 1813. J. HOOKHAM FRERE. 1769-1846. And don't confound the language of the nation The Monks and the Giants. Canto i. Line 6. A sudden thought strikes me, eternal friendship.1 The Rovers. Act i. Sc. 1. GEORGE CANNING. 1770-1827. Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides Ibid. The Loves of the Triangles. Line 178. And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black 's not so black, nor white so very white. New Morality. Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the old. The King's Message. (Dec. 12, 1826.) No, here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. The Pilot that weathered the Storm. 1 Compare Otway, The Orphan, Act iv. Sc. 2. Page 237. DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 1769-1852. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Despatch, 1815. SAMUEL ROGERS. 1763-1855. A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Human Life. Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. Ibid. And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour Ibid. Then never less alone than when alone.1 Ibid. Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves, He gathers round him. - not dead, but gone before,2 Ibid. To vanish in the chinks that Time has made. Pastum. That very law which moulds a tear To a Tear. 1 Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, nec minus solum, quam quum solus esset.-Cicero, De Officiis, Liber iii. c. 1. Compare Gibbon. Page 355. 2 This is literally from Seneca, Epist. lxiii. 16. Compare Matthew Henry. Page 233. 8 Compare Waller. Page 175. Jacqueline. Stanza 1. She was good as she was fair. I would not if I could be gay. A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. Stanza 3. Το A Wish. JOSEPH HOPKINSON. 1770-1842. Hail, Columbia! happy land! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Let its altar reach the skies! Hail, Columbia! 1 To see her is to love her. - Burns, Bonny Lesley. None knew thee but to love thee. Halleck, On the Death of Drake. 2 Compare Bacon, Of Adversity; Goldsmith, The Captivity; Wordsworth's Prelude, Book ix. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.1 1770-1850. And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, Action is transitory, a step, a blow, Stanza 41. The Borderers. Act iii. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. The Child is father of the Man.2 Sweet childish days, that were as long She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; A simple Child, Drink, pretty creature, drink! Act iv. Sc. 2. My heart leaps up. To a Butterfly. The Sparrow's Nest. Lucy Gray. Stanza 2. We are Seven. The Pet Lamb. Until a man might travel twelve stout miles, The Brothers. 1 Coleridge said to Wordsworth, "Since Milton I know of no poet with so many felicities and unforgettable lines and stanzas as you." Wordsworth's Memoirs, Vol. ii. p. 74. 2 Compare Milton, Paradise Regained, Book iv. Page 196. |