Vassar College and Its FounderC. A. Alvord, printer, 1867 - 180 páginas |
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ancient Art Gallery Avenue beautiful Board of Trustees borders brook Cabinet Castle Cathedral Chapel Church College building College edifice corridor Cottage Court-house Cove Brook CYRUS SWAN delight Duchess County East Dereham eminent England erected establishment Eton College Executive Committee Faculty floor flowers Founder friends Hill honor Hudson Hudson River institution instruction instrument interest James Vassar Jewett John Guy Keux Kleeck knoll labor Lake land Matthew Vassar ments Meridian Circle miles Mill Cove mountains Music North Conway observations Observatory Oxford parlors pass picturesque pleasant Porter's Lodge Poughkeepsie President Prime Vertical Professor Pugin River Rome roof SAMUEL F. B. MORSE School seen Seminary side Spring Springside stairway stone story Teacher thousand dollars tion travelers trees twenty Vassar College village walls William William Hart wings York young women
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Página 120 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same. Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 163 - A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death. The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.
Página 162 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Página 80 - All things to man's delightful use. The roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf ; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses and jessamine...
Página 21 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 80 - Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus and each odorous bushy shrub Fenced up the verdant wall, each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature here, Beast, bird, insect, or worm, durst enter...
Página 19 - And turn'd him o'er and o'er. They filled up a darksome pit With water to the brim. They heaved in John Barleycorn, There let him sink or swim. They laid him out upon the floor. To work him farther woe. And still, as signs of life appear'd. They toss'd him to and fro.
Página 157 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Página 92 - It further appeared, there is not in our country, there is not in the world, so far as is known, a single fully endowed institution for the education of women. "It was also in evidence that, for the last thirty years, the standard of education...
Página 147 - How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight.