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" There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest... "
The garland; or, Poetry for childhood and youth - Page 64
by Garland - 1850
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

1839 - 612 pages
..." a steed to stride ; Where but to sport a gun or own a tit * Into a Gentleman transforms a Cit. " Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found ? Art thou a man?" — a Sportsman? ." Look around!" Nor long thine eyes nor long thy fancy strain, But say — I spy the land...
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The West Indies, and Other Poems

James Montgomery - 1810 - 218 pages
...his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heav'n o'er all the world beside ; His home I lie spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. And is the Negro outlaw'd from his birth ? Is he alone a stranger on the earth ? • Is there no shed,...
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The Philanthropist, Or, Repository for Hints and Suggestions ..., Volume 1

1811 - 424 pages
...to that pole : For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth, supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter, spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd...
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Select Reviews, Volume 5

1812 - 470 pages
...trembles to that pole; For in this landof heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and scepire, pageantry and pride, While in his softened...
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The West Indies, and Other Poems

James Montgomery - 1814 - 178 pages
...to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in hig sol'tcn'd...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, Volume 2

1814 - 642 pages
...pleasures. " There is a land, of every land the pride, Belov'd by heaven o'er all the woild beside." " There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than ail the rest." Then, alter enlarging more fully on the subject, he continues : " Where shall that land,...
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The Traveller in Africa: Containing Some Account of the Antiquities, Natural ...

Priscilla Wakefield - 1814 - 396 pages
...in this land of Heav'n's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot on earth, supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his soften'd...
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The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected ...

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...to that pole ; For in this land of Heav'n's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of Earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride. While in his goften'd...
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Tickler, Or, Monthly Compendium of Good Things, in Prose and ..., Volumes 1-3

1818 - 596 pages
...to that polii For in this land of heaven's peculiar gract*, The heritage of nature's noblest race ; There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest; Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside Mis sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his soflen'd...
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The Troubles of a Good Husband

1818 - 166 pages
...keen the pang, when I recollected my father's house, so aptly expressed in the words of a poet : 28 *' There is a spot of earth supremely blest, " A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest ; " Where man, creation's tyrant casts aside " His sword and sceptre, pagantry and pride, " While in his softened...
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