Category: Poetry
Alexandre Dumas’ Hamlet. By F. J. GRUND, 142 Abroad and at Home. By F. E. F. 250 A Coquette Conquered. By J. S. WALLACE, 254 A Dream. By FANNY FORESTER, 314 A Chapter on Eating. By FRANCIS J. GRUND, 332 “Boots;” or the Misfortunes of Peter Faber. By JOSEPH C. 325 NEAL, Frank B...
The western wave was all a flame, The day was well nigh done, Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright sun; When that strange ship drove suddenly Betwixt us and the...
21. CHAPTER VIII.A few mornings after the party, both Wallace and Francis had a long and confidential interview with Mr. Hazleton, which resulted in the penning of a letter by the former to Mrs....
22. PART II._Dogb._ Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself wh...
10. CHAPTER IV.It was not in human nature to forget the repeated slights and insults with which Tremaine had sought to wound the feelings of his old school-mate; but it was in human nature to...
4. CHAPTER III.The war meanwhile went on with increased ferocity. The tide of battle, which at first ran in Marion’s favor, had now turned, and his enemies were everywhere in the ascendant. Th...
6. CHAPTER II.“Yes, perfectly,” replied Sarah. “Pray don’t put it into his head that he is not, or you will make him more indolent than ever. He wants exercise, that is all. I wish him to rid...
5. CHAPTER I.“Did you ever hear a man talk so like a fool as Mr. Barton did yesterday, Sarah?” said Mary Minturn to Miss Gorham. “I declare, I pitied his wife—did not you?”
2. CHAPTER I.“Did you get the pass, Macdonald?” said a young man, looking up, as his servant entered the room of a lodging-house in Charleston, in the latter part of the year 1780.
3. CHAPTER II.The period of which we write was one that will ever be memorable in the annals of our country. Never had the fortunes of the patriots been at so low an ebb in the south, as betw...
12. PART II.There were preparations for a festival in the halls of the “Royal Academy” of London. A distinguished foreign member of the profession was expected to be present, and the first...
9. CHAPTER III.“So it has come at last—ruin, final, irretrievable ruin—every thing gone—the very house I’m in mortgaged. Confusion! But I’ll not give up yet—no, not yet! I’ll see Browne to-nig...
8. CHAPTER II.“Confound the fellow! I can’t take up a newspaper without having his name staring me in the face. Eminent lawyer, superior talents—_superior_—nonsense; I don’t believe a word of...
11. PART I.There is perhaps no scenery in the world so ravishingly beautiful as that offered by those vast plains of northern Italy situated at the base of the Rhætian Alps. A champaign el...
18. CHAPTER V.The toilet of the fair Julia, for this eventful evening, was made under the tasteful eye of Mrs. Hazleton herself, who wished her daughter to look her loveliest—to eclipse all o...
1. VOLUME XXX.Alexandre Dumas’ Hamlet. By F. J. GRUND, 142 Abroad and at Home. By F. E. F. 250 A Coquette Conquered. By J. S. WALLACE, 254 A Dream. By FANNY FORESTER, 314 A Chapter on Eating....
13. PART III.It had been a day of clouds and heavy rain, and now the night was closing over a dreary and scantily furnished apartment in one of those ruined palaces of Florence, which, like...
16. CHAPTER III.Alice Churchill was none of those fragile beauties whose step is too light to bend “a hare-bell ’neath its tread”—whose eyes are compared to those of the gazelle, or to violets...
15. CHAPTER II.In blessed bachelorhood had passed sixty years of Mr. Hazleton’s life. With no one’s whims but his own to nurse—no one to scold but his tailor and washerwoman, their flight had...
14. CHAPTER I.Back and forth, up and down—creak, creak, creak, strides Mr. Hazleton. From the back parlor to the front, from the front to the back—his head down, his lips firmly compressed, h...
17. CHAPTER IV.Alice and Julia were soon good friends—and by degrees Alice became the confidante of a little episode in the life of her cousin which she feared might bear heavily upon her futu...
7. CHAPTER I.At the annual commencement of one of our colleges, the youth who delivered the valedictory had, by the vigor and beauty of thought displayed in his address, and by his polished...
19. CHAPTER VI.Breakfast was over—Mr. Hazleton gone to his office—Alice to pen a letter to her mother—and Julia was left alone with Mrs. Hazleton. It was no light errand upon which she was ben...
20. CHAPTER VII.Mrs. Hazleton resolved to give a party which should eclipse in splendor all those to which the gay season had given rise, and Mr. Hazleton, willing to gratify her, had placed bo...