 Go, wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose thy secret measures, foul or fair. Go, search with curious eye, for horned frogs, Mid the wild wastes of Louisianian bogs; Or, where Ohio rolls his turbid stream, Dig for huge bones, thy glory and thy...  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington - Page 87by Biological Society of Washington - 1882Full view - About this book
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - 1996 - 376 lehte
...for the lame-duck President's resignation, from an anonymous, satirical anti-Embargo tract of 1808: Go, wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose...fair, Go, search, with curious eye, for horned frogs, Mongst the wild wastes of Louisianian bogs; Or where Ohio rolls his turbid stream, Dig for huge bones,... | |
 | Laura Rigal - 2001 - 276 lehte
...thirteen-year-old Federalist, called upon Jefferson to resign and lampooned his fossilizing as impious and obscene: Go wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose...fair, Go, search, with curious eye, for horned frogs, Mongst the wastes of Louisianian bogs; Or where Ohio rolls his turbid stream Dig for huge bones, thy... | |
 | W. M. Verhoeven, Beth Dolan Kautz - 1999 - 226 lehte
...the young, virulently Federalist William Cullen Bryant's first published poem, in which he writes: Go wretch, resign the Presidential chair. Disclose...measures, foul or fair — Go, search with curious eye for homed frogs 'Mid the wild wastes of Louisiana Bogs; Or where the Ohio rolls his turbid stream, Dig... | |
 | Wendy Martin - 2002 - 276 lehte
...Thomas Jefferson, then (in 1809) the outgoing President of the United States. Bryant urges Jefferson to: Go, search with curious eye, for horned frogs, Mid the wild wastes of Louisian bogs;'6 The image of Jefferson as a naturalist is double-edged: the couplet (in itself a sign... | |
 | Paul F. Boller - 2004 - 496 lehte
...Jefferson: And thuu. the scorn of every patriot's name. Thy country's ruin and thy country's shame! Go. wretch! Resign the Presidential chair. Disclose thy secret measures, foul or fair. . . . Go scan, philosophise thy ]Sally's] charins, And sink supinely in her sable arms. But quit to abler hands,... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - 2006 - 1114 lehte
...love affair with his mulatto slave, Sally Hemings: Go, wretch, resign the president's chair Disclose secret measures foul or fair, Go, search with curious eye, for horned frogs, 'Mongst the wild wastes of Louisiana bogs; Go scan, philosophist, thy ****** [Sally's] charms, And... | |
 | Ian W Toll - 2006 - 614 lehte
...people. William Cullen Bryant, still in his adolescence, published a popular anti-Jefferson verse: Go, wretch, resign the Presidential chair; Disclose...secret measures, foul or fair; Go, search with curious eyes for horned frogs, Amid the wild wastes of Louisianan bogs, Or where the Ohio rolls its turbid... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 2006 - 605 lehte
...William Cullen Bryant, 1808. Even Mr, Bryant has Ms ling at the " philosophic " taste of Jefferson. " Go, wretch ! resign the Presidential chair, Disclose thy secret measures, foul or lair ; Go, search with curious eye for hornid frogs "Mid the wild wastes of Louisiana bogs : Or where... | |
 | Stanley Hedeen - 2008 - 202 lehte
...took the opportunity to collect more specimens from the Lick.23 William Clark's Bountiful Collection Go, wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose...secret measures, foul or fair, Go, search with curious eyes for horned frogs, 'Mid the wild wastes of Louisianian bogs; Or where the Ohio rolls his turbid... | |
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - 1996 - 372 lehte
...for the lame-duck President's resignation, from an anonymous, satirical anti-Embargo tract of 1808: Go, wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose...fair, Go, search, with curious eye, for horned frogs, Mongst the wild wastes of Louisianian bogs; Or where Ohio rolls his turbid stream, Dig for huge bones,... | |
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