The Second Post: A Companion to "The Gentlest Art"Macmillan, 1910 - 264 páginas An anthology of letters. |
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Página 234 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 59 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love...
Página 23 - ON THE SEA IT KEEPS eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.
Página 5 - In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of June in the year of grace eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
Página 87 - Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters...
Página 24 - The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious great intent, Can never rest until it forth have brought Th...
Página 234 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Página 23 - Oh ye ! who have your eye-balls vexed and tired, Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea ; Oh ye ! whose ears are dinn'd with uproar rude, Or fed too much with cloying melody, — Sit ye near some old cavern's mouth, and brood Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quired ! ON LEIGH HUNT'S POEM, THE
Página 226 - Franfais stairs, I trod on an old gentleman's toes, whereupon with that suavity that so well becomes me, I turned about to apologise, and on the instant, repenting me of that intention, stopped the apology midway, and added something in French to this effect : No, you are one of the Idches who have been applauding that piece. I retract my apology.
Página 100 - I cannot outlive this disgrace.' Gourville laughed at him ; Vatel, however, went to his apartment, and setting the hilt of his sword against the door, after two ineffectual attempts, succeeded in the third, in forcing the sword through his heart. At that instant the carriers arrived with the fish...