 | 1902 - 734 ページ
...antiquity and a proper quaintness." — Hoivclls's "Doorstep Acquaintance." THE LONGFELLOW MANSION. "Once, ah ! once within these walls One whom memory oft recalls. The Father of his Country, dwelt." — Longfellow. Photograph by George A. Nelson "What can that blind quartermaster mean by taking this... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 ページ
...it no unfit abode for the Muses. With reference to it; former majestic occupant, the poet says: — "Once, ah, once within these walls, One whom memory...the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt." For seventeen years he faithfully discharged his duties as head of the department of modern languages... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1904 - 518 ページ
...fixed by the mansion which for more than eight months became his residence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY. "Once, ah ! once, within these walls, One whom memory...country dwelt ; And yonder meadows broad and damp, The tires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt." Washington probably took possession of... | |
 | 1917 - 310 ページ
...Washington; but the poet himself felt the spell cast upon it by the great patriot, and wrote of it: Once, ah once, within these walls, One whom memory...recalls, The Father of His Country dwelt; And yonder meadow, broad and damp, The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt; Up and down... | |
 | 1906 - 828 ページ
...mansion, the Craigie House, which was once Washington's headquarters, and of this fact he speaks thus : "Once, ah! once within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The father of his country dwelt. . . . Up and down these echoing stairs, Heavy with the weight of cares Sounded his majestic tread;... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1906 - 462 ページ
...Longfellow's work went on. He lived in the charming old Craigie House in Cambridge, where, as he wrote, Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country, dwelt. His longest narrative poems are Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and The Song of Hiawatha,... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1907 - 282 ページ
...Longfellow's work went on. He lived in the charming old Craigie House in Cambridge, where, as he wrote, Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country, dwelt. His longest narrative poems are Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and The Song of Hiawatha,... | |
 | May Louise Harvey - 1908 - 234 ページ
...very house. " Where the writing desk is," so he tells them, " Washington's table used to stand." " Once, ah, once within these walls ; One whom memory...with the weight of cares Sounded his majestic tread." "THE GREAT GEORGE WAS1UNGTON ONCE LIVED IN THIS VERY HOUSE." This was in the long, cruel war of the... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 518 ページ
...command of the army about Boston, and Longfellow felt the ghostly presence of his great predecessor: Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory...a burning belt. Up and down these echoing stairs, Sounded his majestic tread ; Yes, within this very room Sat he in those hours of gloom, Weary both... | |
 | Helen Archibald Clarke - 1909 - 344 ページ
...O'er the light of whose gladness No shadows of sadness From the sombre background of memory start. 'Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory...these echoing stairs, Heavy with the weight of cares, H O S3 O 33 N h a !E o H o", Sounded his majestic tread; Yes, within this very room Sat he in those... | |
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Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country, dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt. 
