Category: Short Stories
Marguerite had cause of self congratulation in the issue of the second interview with the all powerful Richelieu. Difficulties, which the imagination paints as an Herculean labor to remove, shrink to trifles when the will is resolute and stern necessity impels.
Marguerite had cause of self congratulation in the issue of the second interview with the all powerful Richelieu. Difficulties, which the imagination paints as an Herculean labo...
2. Scene I.—_Preciosa’s Chamber. Morning. Preciosa and Angelica._Pre._ Why will you go so soon? Stay yet awhile. The poor too often turn away unheard From hearts that shut against them, with a sound That will be heard in Heaven. Pray tell me...
3. Scene II.—_A room in the Archbishop’s Palace. The Archbishop_Arch._ Knowing how near it touched the public morals, And that our age is grown corrupt and rotten By such excesses, we have sent to Rome, Beseeching that his Holiness would ai...
4. Scene II.—_The Prado. A long avenue of trees leading to the_Don C._ Halloo! good evening, Don Hypolito. _Hyp._ And a good evening to my friend Don Carlos. Some lucky star has led my steps this way. I was in search of you. _Don C._ Comma...
5. Scene III.—_Preciosa’s chamber. She is sitting near a table,_Pre._ Thou little prisoner in a motley coat, That from thy vaulted, wiry dungeon singest, Like thee I am a captive. In my cage Imprisoned, bound with silken bands I stay, And m...
6. Scene IV.—_The Count of Lara’s rooms. Enter the Count._Lara._ There’s nothing in this world so sweet as love, And next to love the sweetest thing is hate! I’ve learned to hate, and therefore am revenged. A silly girl to play the pr...
7. Scene V.—_A retired spot beyond the city gates. Enter Victorian_Vic._ Oh shame! oh shame! Why do I walk abroad By daylight, when the very sunshine mocks me, And voices, and familiar sights and sounds Cry hide thyself! O what a thin partitio...
8. Scene VI.—_Preciosa’s bed-chamber. Midnight. She is sleeping in_Dol._ Poor girl, she sleeps at last; yet hardly sleeps; She lives her sorrows o’er again in dreams, Doubling her grief. _Pre._ I must go hence, I say! Give me my cloak. _Dol._...
9. ACT I.—Scene IV._King._ Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not Those in commission yet returned? _Malcolm._ My liege, They are not yet come back. But I have spoke With one who saw him die: who di...
10. PART I.11. PART II.12. PART III.From a large collection of naval ballads, we select the following, as one of the most curious of its class, and because, like several others in this collection, it has never bef...