Supplement to the Connecticut Courant: Containing Tales, Travels, History, Biography, Poetry, and a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Articles, Volume 3J.L. Boswell., 1832 |
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... close her narrative , by Legh ness and beauty . We pursued our way Richmond . From the length of the grave , I through Standen and Pittsford towards the should suppose Elizabeth to have been above village of Arreton ; leaving the ...
... close her narrative , by Legh ness and beauty . We pursued our way Richmond . From the length of the grave , I through Standen and Pittsford towards the should suppose Elizabeth to have been above village of Arreton ; leaving the ...
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... close tion , he trudged into the house and brought to his side . out a mat in his mouth , upon which he quiet- ly lay down and went to sleep . In ancient times , a French gentleman of family and fortune , when travelling alone through a ...
... close tion , he trudged into the house and brought to his side . out a mat in his mouth , upon which he quiet- ly lay down and went to sleep . In ancient times , a French gentleman of family and fortune , when travelling alone through a ...
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... close of the late war . Col. T. , of the United is immortal It will brighten to the end of States Army , who , in the " Peace establish- time . Yet no man desired distinction less.ment " was attached to the " Southern divis- But he ...
... close of the late war . Col. T. , of the United is immortal It will brighten to the end of States Army , who , in the " Peace establish- time . Yet no man desired distinction less.ment " was attached to the " Southern divis- But he ...
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... close this narrative , by re- -when Col. T. , raising himself up , called marking , that , to set aside all doubts as to upon the fellow in the room for a light . He the character of these ruffians , ( if indeed , appeared to be aroused ...
... close this narrative , by re- -when Col. T. , raising himself up , called marking , that , to set aside all doubts as to upon the fellow in the room for a light . He the character of these ruffians , ( if indeed , appeared to be aroused ...
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... close of his clerkship , was admitted to the bar , and in a letter to his mother , bearing even date with the fact last stated , spoke of himself as on the point of forming a business connection with the gentleman who had been the ...
... close of his clerkship , was admitted to the bar , and in a letter to his mother , bearing even date with the fact last stated , spoke of himself as on the point of forming a business connection with the gentleman who had been the ...
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Page 378 - They mount up to the heaven, They go down again to the depths : Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits
Page 392 - There are many more' shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possesed of them.
Page 473 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 129 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Page 432 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Page 169 - He proved them all — the doubt, the strife, The faint perplexing dread, The mists that hang o'er parting life, All...
Page 129 - The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Page 129 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Page 56 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 385 - t is given To wake sweet Nature's untaught lays; Beneath the arch of heaven To chirp away a life of praise. Then spread each wing Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing In yon blue dome not reared with hands.