Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
It was a fair evening in autumn, toward the end of the year eleven of our Lord. Augustus Cæsar was a white-haired, olive-complexioned, and somewhat frail-featured, though stately man of more than seventy-three. At the beginning of the century in which this was written, the fac...
After an absence of over twenty years, we returned to the pleasant village in New England which had formerly exercised over us the charm that pertains to the magic name of HOME.
2. CHAPTER II.Our chronicle commences in Campania, with the Tyrrhenian Sea (now the southerly waters of the Gulf of Genoa) on a traveller's left hand if he looks north. It was a fair evening...
30. CHAPTER X.There were many sad hearts in the village of M----, outside of Michael Hennessy's home, on the day of his departure. The event cast a gloom over the whole village; for his brigh...
23. CHAPTER V.As Frank Blair had expected, his father was very much offended at the share he had taken in the performances at H----, and the assault upon the boys, of which he was informed th...
43. CHAPTER XIII.During the progress of these events, the health of George Wingate had been gradually failing, but so imperceptibly as to create no serious alarm; and he could not be prevailed u...
51. CHAPTER II.Swiftly the emigrant ship cut the blue waves, boldly her sails wooed the winds, and hearts that had been despondent at parting grew hopeful and buoyant as they neared the promis...
25. CHAPTER XIII."It will depend upon circumstances," he replied; "for, whether I fail to get speech of the emperor, or, succeeding in that, fail to get justice from him, process of law remains...
18. CHAPTER XI.The letter was sent, and in the course of the forenoon the _tabellarius_, or letter-carrier of the inn, returned from Formiæ. Crispina brought him to Paulus, who was in an avenu...
3. Volume iii. of the series of _Lives of the Archbishops ofCanterbury_, by Dr. Hook, dean of the cathedral of Chichester, contains a biography of Cardinal Pole. It is said to contain much new material on the subject, from the MSS. colle...
49. Book iii. 96-112."Ille ubi convictum claro se lumine vidit, Prodidit et totum discussio justa reatum, Non prece submissa veniam pro crimine poscit, Non votis lacrymisve rogat, nec vindice fletu...
40. CHAPTER III.The day when the singular struggle was to occur, the expectation of which had excited such curiosity, arose bright, breezeless, and sultry, and so continued till long past noon;...
45. PART I.The full and complete history of the remarkable apparition of Lourdes is now, for the first time, presented to the English-speaking Catholic public. Mr. Lawlor has given an abri...
44. CHAPTER IV.Two days afterward, Dionysius the Athenian called at the inn, and informed Aglais, Paulus, and Agatha, that after the banquet in the Mamurran palace at Formiæ, that evening, the...
9. CHAPTER VII.Meanwhile the innkeeper's wife, Crispina, had appeared, and had led Aglais and her daughter through the group in the porch into the house, and passing by a little _zothecula_,[3...
37. Act v. sc. 9.We have occupied so much space in the analysis and extracts from this remarkable work, that little room is left for further observation. It is impossible to present all the beau...
24. CHAPTER XII."Before I leave you, I will speak one word which came of the chance of uttering while I brought you that letter, but which I would not have pronounced had I found you to be a pe...
39. CHAPTER II."Marcus Lepidus Æmilius hails the widow of his brave and valiant brother. Come with your children. The last of mine has, alas! died under the clemency of one man, and the libera...
17. CHAPTER X.Meanwhile, in the large room within, breakfast had been prepared for the wanderers on a table drawn opposite to and near the open folding-doors of the arbor where they were conv...
16. CHAPTER IX.Next morning when they met at the _jentaculum_, or breakfast, there was a marvellous improvement in Agatha's looks. She had been the earliest out of bed; had seen from her windo...
15. CHAPTER VIII.While they were discussing this topic, a gentle knock was heard at the door, and then a very pretty girl of about fifteen, with an open, sweet countenance, and a remarkably mode...
42. CHAPTER XII.During this period, Miss Carlton, one of Miss Blair's best friends, near her own age, and a lady of intelligence and wealth, with strong philanthropic impulses, had set herself...
21. CHAPTER III."Hurrah boys! you're the very chaps I wanted to find," said he. "I say, don't you want to go in with a lot of us for a real tip-top time?"
41. CHAPTER XI.It was one of those golden days not so frequent in our autumnal season as to lose the charm of novelty, or the full sense of their value in redeeming its general sternness; and...
8. did. Even among the Romans the army trusted to its city-likeencampments from stage to stage. Centuries passed away, during which the private traveller found few indeed, and far between, any better public resting-houses along the magnific...
1. CHAPTER I.It was a fair evening in autumn, toward the end of the year eleven of our Lord. Augustus Cæsar was a white-haired, olive-complexioned, and somewhat frail-featured, though statel...
38. CHAPTER I.The news of the arrangement spread through the palace of the Mamurras before he had well quitted Formiæ. From the palace it circulated through the town, from the town it reached...
50. CHAPTER I.As she spoke the last words the woman's voice trembled, and she hid her face in the bed-clothes to stifle the grief that was welling up in great sobbing waves from her breaking...
20. CHAPTER II.The church was situated in the very shadow of a wood that skirts the pretty village of M----, in northern Vermont. When the two boys reached it, they found quite an assemblage o...
36. Act v. sc. 3.Following the promptings of the angel, which are continued through the scene, Adam proposes that Lucifer and his companion shall kneel with him in prayer. Thus he escapes the te...
33. Act i. sc. 3.His plan for the destruction of man is hailed with joy; and Lucifer next calls up the Seven Deadly Sins to assist him in his infernal work. To each of these mysterious impersona...
12. CHAPTER III.These were the words that greeted my ears as I entered the sewing society at Mrs. B----'s, on a fine afternoon in August, 18--. The speaker, who was an energetic middle-aged lad...
26. CHAPTER VI.All went on quietly with our young Vermonters for a long time. They were engaged in close attention to their studies, in the regular routine of school duties and recreations of...
4. CHAPTER III."I leave all details to you," said the Cæsar; "but what has to be done is this--that youth who calls himself Paulus Lepidus Æmilius must be produced as a gladiator either in the...
29. CHAPTER IX.When the morning appointed for the departure of Michael arrived, the whole school assembled to accompany him to the depot, and take leave of him. The teacher gave him much good...
11. CHAPTER II."So you have all heard of this affair! Then I suppose it must be true. Well, for my part, I never could have thought it possible here in New England, and in the light of this ni...
13. CHAPTER IV."Did you go to the donation party at our minister's last night, sister C----? I was so sorry that I couldn't go! My little girl had such a bad cold, I did not dare to leave her."
28. CHAPTER VIII."Oh! it couldn't be him," said another; "for he was one of the party, and of course it wasn't he. If he hadn't been invited, he might have done it out of spite; but now he had n...
22. CHAPTER IV.Very quietly did the party of young pleasure-seekers retire to their beds, after they arrived at their homes that evening, fatigued and exhausted with the excitement of the past...
10. CHAPTER I."There sister! I told you what would come of letting that dear child hear little Mary Ann recite the Romanist catechism. Here we have our little Kitty setting herself up as a ju...
6. CHAPTER V.The post house, or _mansio_,[27] to which allusion has been made, situated about four or five miles south of Formiæ, on the Appian road, was a large, rambling, two-storied _bric...
19. CHAPTER I."Hollo! George and Henry, where are you going in such a hurry? Can't you stop to speak to a fellow?" cried Frank Blair to his two school-mates, George Wingate and Henry Howe, wh...
48. Book ii. 60-117."Vidit ut iste novos homines in sede quieta Ducere felicem nullo discrimine vitam, Lege sub accepta Domino famularier orbis, Subjectisque frui placida inter gaudia rebus; Commov...
5. CHAPTER IV.Sejanus, when left alone, motioned to the two troopers. He who had brought Tiberius his horse rode furiously after the Cæsar; the other attended the general, who slowly mounted...
27. CHAPTER VII.The next morning as the scholars collected, they found Frank Blair and several of the excluded boys in the play-ground, grouped together in close discussion. When they approache...
34. Act ii. sc. 6.In the succeeding interview with Adam, in Act iii., the intoxicated Eve has not begun to taste the consequences of her crime; she comes to persuade her companion to partake her...
47. Book i. 266-281."Nam quoties tumido perrumpit flumine ripas Alveus, et nigris campos perinundat arenis, Ubertas taxatur aqua, cœloque vacante Terrestrem pluviam diffusus porrigit annis. Tunc in...
46. Book i. 211-257"Ergo ubi transmissis mundi caput incipit Indis, Quo perhibent terram confinia jungere cœlo, Lucus inaccessa cunctis mortalibus arca Permanet, æterno conclusus limite, postquam...
35. Act iii. sc. 8.The poem does not end with the expulsion from Eden; a second part, as it were, is contained in the last two acts, in which the dim promise of a Redeemer is shadowed forth, the t...
31. Act i. sc. 2."_Beelzebub._ Fierce is the torturing flame, And deep the flood of venom in my soul. Madness rules all within, And my forced sighs like peals of thunder roll, Each glance is sco...
32. Act iv. sc. 2."O ye powers Immortal, valiant, great! Angels, for lofty, warlike daring born! I know the grief that gnaws your inmost hearts, A living death! to see this creature man Raised to...
7. CHAPTER VI.The inn, it is well ascertained, never became a common institution in classic antiquity. It was utterly unknown in any thing like its modern shape among the Greeks; one cause be...