Proceedings at the reception and dinner in honor of George Peabody ... by the citizens of ... Danvers. To which is appended an historical sketch of the Peabody institute1856 |
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A. A. Abbott Abbott Lawrence abroad American applause arch banner barouche beautiful blessings Boston cavalcade celebration character cheers citizens of Danvers commercial Committee of Invitation cordial countrymen decorated distinguished townsman dressed Eben Sutton England evergreen feel fellow-citizens festival festoons Fitch Poole flags flowers FRANCIS DANE friends George Osborne George Peabody happy heart Holten honor hospitalities humble interest labor lectures liberal Library London Lyceum ment merchants Messrs metropolis moral motto munificence nations native town noble obedient servant occasion old Danvers old town Peabody Institute Peabody's person pleasure procession promote prosperity proud public reception PUTNAM R. S. Daniels received reception and dinner regret remember residence respectfully Rufus Choate Salem School sentiment South Danvers spirit streamers Street taste thee tion to-day toast town of Danvers townsman and benefactor tribute trust unite village Warren Bank Washington Irving wealth WILLIAM CUSHING
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Page 151 - The cloud-capp'd towers", the gorgeous palaces", The solemn temples , the great globe itself", Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a rack behind : We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 64 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 81 - When the war-drum throbs no longer, And the battle-flags are furled In the parliament of man, The federation of the world.
Page 65 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 65 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose Cause-way parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose Seats the weary Traveller repose ? 260 Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ?
Page 180 - I following — when a step, A single step, that freed me from the skirts Of the blind vapour, opened to my view Glory beyond all glory 'ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul!
Page 183 - The glorious habit by which sense is made Subservient still to moral purposes, Auxiliar to divine.
Page 46 - There is not a youth within the sound of my voice whose early opportunities and advantages are not very much greater than were my own ; and I have since achieved nothing that is impossible to the most humble boy among you.
Page 184 - Let the case of a busy lawyer testify to the priceless value of the love of reading. He comes home, his temples throbbing, his nerves shattered, from a trial of a week ; surprised and alarmed by the charge of the judge, and pale with anxiety about the verdict of the next morning, not at all satisfied with what he has done himself, though he does not yet see how he could have improved it ; recalling with dread and selfdisparagement, if not with envy, the brilliant effort of...
Page 184 - Mahometan in the Spectator to put his head in the bucket of water, and raise it out, he finds himself exploring the arrowmarked ruins of Nineveh with Layard ; or worshipping at the spring-head of the stupendous Missouri, with Clark and Lewis; or watching with Columbus for the sublime moment of the rising of the curtain from before the great mystery of the sea ; or looking reverentially on while Socrates — the discourse of immortality ended — refuses the offer of escape...