 | Edward Napoleon Kirby - 1884 - 176 pages
...shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise till it meets the sun in his coming, let the earliest light of the morning gild...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. IX. TSALM CXXXIX. — KING DAVID. Solemn Address. — Subjective and reverential attitude, low pitch,... | |
 | 1902 - 854 pages
...passage in the oration is the only one to which I shall refer : "Let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild...it and parting day linger and play on its summit." This passage is often quoted with the artich "the" before the word "parting," but Mr. Webster's ear... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1884 - 436 pages
...eornerstone of 1 iunker Hill monument: "Let it rise ! Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his eoming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." The thought and pieture are alike poetieal, and they are expressed in the simplest of ICnglish words,... | |
 | 1896 - 678 pages
...remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his [1200] coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. And let the sacred obligations which [1225] have devolved on this generation, and on us. sink deep... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1885 - 200 pages
...him of the liberty and glory of his country. Let it rise l Let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming! Let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit l DEDICATION OF BUNKER TTTT.T. MONUMENT. DANIEL WEBSTER. I have spoken of the loftiness of its purpose.... | |
 | Urias John Hoffman - 1885 - 404 pages
...his rays fall last upon your summit." Daniel Webster said: "Let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the morning gild...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." In these examples the ideas are accompanied by a feeling of grandeur, and are expressed in figurative... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1885 - 68 pages
...him of the liberty and glory of his country. Let it rise ! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the morning gild...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. 8. We live in a most extraordinary age. Events so various and so important that they might crowd and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1887 - 476 pages
...who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in its coming ;...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. CLIX.— MORAL POWER OF PUBLIC OPINION. DANIEL V. FJISTKIl. IT may, in the next place, be asked, perhaps,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 pages
...who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise till it meet the sun in its coming ; let...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. We hold still among us some of those who were active agents in the scenes of 1775, and who are now... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1886 - 246 pages
...higher. May I say. as on another occasion, " Let it rise ; let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the morning gild...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit ! " Fellow-citizens, what contemplations are awakened in our minds as we assemble here to reenact a... | |
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Let it rise! let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. 
