The Life and Times of Azro B. F. Hildreth: Including Personal and Family Letters, Miscellaneous Correspondence, and Selections from His Writings

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Charles Aldrich
Redhead, Norton, Lathrop & Company, 1891 - 548 sider
Richard Hildreth (Hildrick, Heildreich, Heildreth) immigrated before or during 1643 to Woburn and them Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where he died after 1664.

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Side 486 - They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires and illuminations. On its annual return, they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy.
Side 105 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Side 526 - The Indian of falcon glance, and lion bearing, the theme of the touching ballad, the hero of the pathetic tale, is gone!
Side 526 - Slowly and sadly they climb the distant mountains, and read their doom in the setting sun. They are shrinking before the mighty tide which is pressing them away; they must soon hear the roar of the last wave, which -will settle over them forever.
Side 419 - If yon bright stars. which gem the night. Be each a blissful dwelling sphere.
Side 439 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength — a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one...
Side 85 - Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.
Side 468 - Bring flowers to the shrine where we kneel in prayer, They are nature's offering, their place is there ! They speak of hope to the fainting heart, With a voice of promise they come and part, They sleep in dust through the wintry hours, They break forth in glory — bring flowers, bright flowers ! THE CRUSADER'S RETURN. "Alas! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan cheeks and sunburnt hair She had not known her child.
Side 42 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Side 195 - Congress to develop and improve our •water-courses and harbors, but insist that further subsidies to private persons or corporations must cease. That the obligations of the Republic to the men who preserved its integrity in the...

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