Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the Living Female Writers of the South. With Extracts from Their Writings, Volume 2

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Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870 - 973 páginas
 

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Página 881 - SHUT, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land...
Página 667 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 576 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 540 - Morat and Marathon twin names shall stand; They were true Glory's stainless victories, Won by the unambitious heart and hand Of a proud, brotherly...
Página 872 - Then fold it up carefully, lay it aside, Tenderly touch it, look on it with pride ; For dear must it be to our hearts evermore, The jacket of gray our loved soldier-boy wore.
Página 872 - His young comrades found him, and tenderly bore The cold lifeless form to his home by the shore; Oh, dark were our hearts on that terrible day, When we saw our dead boy in the jacket of gray.
Página 532 - is to be commended almost as much for what it is not, as for what it is. It is not a ' sensational
Página 771 - O setting sun, awhile delay ! Linger on sea and shore ; For thousand eyes now gaze on thee, That shall not see thee more ; A thousand hearts beat proudly now, Whose race like thine is o'er...
Página 748 - old brigade" he loved so well,— The mountain men who bound him With bays of their own winning, ere A tardier fame had crowned him. The legions who had seen his glance Across the carnage flashing, And thrilled to catch his ringing " Charge !' Above the volley crashing ; Who oft had watched the lifted hand The inward trust betraying, And felt their courage grow sublime While they beheld him praying. Good knights, and true as ever drew Their swords with knightly Roland, Or died at Sobieski's side...
Página 916 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands : and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...

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