Classic rhapsodies. Random reminiscences. Miscellanies. Poetical parodiesGould, Banks & Company, 1842 - American poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 17
Page 26
... seemed to hang back to watch the chance for a dash . " Green ! -Blue ! -Purple ! -Golden ! " went up the shouts from the friends of the different factions as they became in- volved in dust , and locked each other's wheels . None cried ...
... seemed to hang back to watch the chance for a dash . " Green ! -Blue ! -Purple ! -Golden ! " went up the shouts from the friends of the different factions as they became in- volved in dust , and locked each other's wheels . None cried ...
Page 32
... seemed to be Ethiopians and low Irish . Those who held themselves more respectable stood back at a distance from the river , and a few groups that I particularly noticed , appeared by their ges- tures , and the occasional emphatic words ...
... seemed to be Ethiopians and low Irish . Those who held themselves more respectable stood back at a distance from the river , and a few groups that I particularly noticed , appeared by their ges- tures , and the occasional emphatic words ...
Page 53
... seemed two hundred - long hours did I wait for my torturers . They went in to tea , and forgot me . Night closed around the empty benches , and some floor- scourer came with a lamp , and starting as at a thief , inquired " what I was ...
... seemed two hundred - long hours did I wait for my torturers . They went in to tea , and forgot me . Night closed around the empty benches , and some floor- scourer came with a lamp , and starting as at a thief , inquired " what I was ...
Page 56
... seemed to feel the condition of my flesh , and estimate what possible twiggery it could bear . His blue , bright , light- less eyes knew nothing ; but his whip saw . Certain it is , its accurate stripes made delinquents wish they had a ...
... seemed to feel the condition of my flesh , and estimate what possible twiggery it could bear . His blue , bright , light- less eyes knew nothing ; but his whip saw . Certain it is , its accurate stripes made delinquents wish they had a ...
Page 69
... . Off then he started , in the madness of his fright , utterly uncontrollable , and whirl- ing us after him in the bounding wagon . The trees and fences appeared and vanished like lightning ; we seemed to fly RANDOM REMINISCENCES . 69.
... . Off then he started , in the madness of his fright , utterly uncontrollable , and whirl- ing us after him in the bounding wagon . The trees and fences appeared and vanished like lightning ; we seemed to fly RANDOM REMINISCENCES . 69.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Amos Kendall BANK MELODY-No beautiful blow Bona Dea breath burned called Campus Martius CATACOUSTICS Cataline Cerberus chariot church Cicero Cotton Mather coursers court cries cursed Cypress dashed dear deep devil distress drink eyes fascination fathers fear followed ghosts girl give glorious glory half hand happy hath head hear heard heart Heaven Hell honor horses human voice Jack king knew lady laugh light Loco-Foco look Mark Antony melancholy never Nick night O'clock obolus Othello party pious Pluto poet pris'ner Proserpine pulling queen Rebecca Nurse reins rushed seat serpine side sing solemn soon soul spirit street Styx sweet Tantalus Tartarus tell thee thing thou thought tion turned twiggery Verplanck voice wigs witch witchcraft word York young
Popular passages
Page 204 - Who, from the terror of this arm, so late Doubted his empire — that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of Gods, And this empyreal substance, cannot fail; Since, through experience of this great event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny...
Page 203 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 206 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success,* When he who most excels in fact of arms, In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair And utter dissolution, as the scope Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.
Page 81 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life...
Page 101 - Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
Page 163 - Jack Sprat could eat no fat, / His wife could eat no lean; / And so between them both, you see, / They licked the platter clean.
Page 95 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Page 206 - My sentence is for open war : of wiles, More unexpert, I boast not : them let those Contrive who need, or when they need, not now...
Page 204 - Obscure some glimpse of joy to have found their Chief Not in despair, to have found themselves not lost In loss itself; which on his countenance cast Like doubtful hue. But he, his wonted pride Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore Semblance of worth, not substance, gently raised Their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears: 530 Then straight commands that, at the warlike sound Of trumpets loud and clarions, be upreared
Page 226 - Now strike the golden lyre again; A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has raised up his head; As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge, revenge!