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Page 219 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Page 201 - See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
Page 219 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 235 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Page 51 - Only about ten cords, sir," was the reply of the youthful salesman. The captain here told Thompson to take six cords, which would last till daylight, and again turned his attention to the game. The pilots here changed places. When did they sleep...
Page 51 - Forty apiece for you and I and James" [the other pilot] "is not bad for one night." I had risen and went out with the Captain, to enjoy a view of the bluffs. There was just fog enough to prevent the vision taking in more than sixty yards — so I was disappointed in my expectation. We were nearing the shore for the purpose of looking for wood, the banks being invisible from the middle of the river. "There it is!
Page 275 - The Stage paints Virtue in her holiday garments ; and though storms sometimes . gather round her radiant head, the countenance of the heavenly maid, resigned, serene, and meek, beams forth, after a season of patient suffering, with ineffable refulgence. Vice constantly wears his hideous features, and in the sure, inevitable, punishment of the guilty we behold the type of that Eternal Justice, before whose fiat the purest of us shall tremble when the curtain falls on the Great Drama of Life.
Page 51 - I heard the bell and the pilot's hail : " What's your price for wood ?" A youthful voice on the shore answered, "Three and a quarter!
Page 50 - Her regular trips from New Orleans to Natchez were usually made in from six to eight days ; a trip made by her in five days was considered remarkable. A voyage from New Orleans to Vicksburg and back, including stoppages, generally entitled the officers and crew to a month's wages. Whether the Caravan ever achieved the feat of a voyage to the Falls (Louisville) I have never learned; if she did, she must have "had a time of it !" It was my fate to take passage in this boat. The Captain was a good-natured,...
Page 204 - J. Kemp Goodloe was called to the chair, and Lon B. Peters appointed secretary. "Upon motion the following named gentlemen were appointed a committee to draft a preamble and resolutions expressive of the sentiments of the meeting upon the death of John Crittenden Itailey: Vince L. Moore, Joseph Coleman Carter, L. Hensley, George T. Cotton, Swift Darneal, A. Woods, Joseph B. Kinkead and John A. McKinney, Jr., who, after retiring, reported the following : " 'Whereas, information has been received that...