Category: Poetry

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 2, August 1841

The Penitent Son The Colloquy of Monos and Una The Assault The Neglected Wife The Puritan Son Auzella School-Boy Recollections The Reefer of ’76 A Day at Niagara Willis Gaylord Clark Sports and Pastimes—Angling Review of New Books Secret Writing

Chapters

6. Part 6

After dinner he escorted my father, leading me by the hand, down to the academy, which was on the outskirts of the town, at the other end of it from Mr. Kenny’s. The buzz, which...

8. Part 8

“Thank you, thank you, Mr. Patterson, but before my scholars, under the circumstances, it would be setting a bad example, when existing circumstances prove they need a good one....

7. Part 7

“There’s truth in that,” said Mr. Patterson aside to me. “Gentlemen, let us leave the pedagogue to his reflections; and now it occurs to me that we had better not uncage him, fo...

3. Part 3

And on they swept. Horse and foot; archer and man-at-arms; wounded and unhurt; noble and retainer; Frank, Gaul, and German; the Saxon, and Tuscan; the old, the young, the middle...

4. Part 4

In the West Riding of Yorkshire, not many miles removed from the line of the great North Road, singularly and somewhat romantically situated on a vast rocky hill, projecting ste...

11. Part 11

We repeat it:—_it is_ the truth which he has spoken, and who shall contradict us? He has said unscrupulously what every reasonable man among us has long known to be “as true as...

5. Part 5

“_Too late!_ oh, lost forever! The hour approaches; come near.” Drawing from under his pillow a parchment, he placed it in the hands of the monk. “My confession, father; _now_,...

10. Part 10

Mr. Clark possessed poetic talents of no ordinary merit. He belonged to the school of Goldsmith and Pope, rather than to that of Byron or Coleridge. He was more remarkable for s...

9. Part 9

“Ay, God’s curse be on you—” but his words were lost in the clash of the conflict. For a moment I thought he was more than my match, but his very rage overreached itself, and fa...

12. Part 12

In the way of criticism upon these extraordinary compositions, Mr. Irving has attempted little, and, in general, he seems more affected by the loveliness and the purity of the c...

1. Part 1

The Penitent Son The Colloquy of Monos and Una The Assault The Neglected Wife The Puritan Son Auzella School-Boy Recollections The Reefer of ’76 A Day at Niagara Willis Gaylord...

2. Part 2

Pascal, a philosopher whom we both love, has said, how truly!—“_que tout notre raisonnement se rèduit à céder au sentiment_;” and it is not impossible that the sentiment of the...

13. Part 13