Philip Freneau Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."”
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“Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.”
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“They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
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“Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.”
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“At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.”
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“If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.”
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“And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.”
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“To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw,”
-- Philip Freneau
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