The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow: A Tradition of Pennsylavania

The year 1782 was distinguished on the western continent as the close of the great contest, which obtained for America the name and privileges of a free nation. The harbingers o...

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude.---- Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh, As benefits forgot. AS YOU LIKE IT.

If this should fail, And that our drift look through our bad performance, 'Twere better not essay'd: therefore this project Should have a back, or second, that might hold, If th...

"Unto you," quod I, "with all my whole assent, I will tell trouthe, and you will not bewraye Unto none other my matter and entent." "Nay, nay," quod he, "you shall not see that...

The singular discovery of Hyland's innocence was long before morning bruited over the village, and besides exciting a double interest in his fate, produced no little curiosity i...

And I remember the chief, said the king of woody Morven: I met him, one day, on the hill; his cheek was pale; his eye was dark; the sigh was frequent in his breast; his steps we...

That you are rogues, And infamous base rascals, (there's the point now,) I take it, is confess'd.---- May a poor huntsman, with a merry heart, A voice shall make the forest ring...

The letter of Miss Falconer contained an allusion to an approaching festival, which she characterized as a '4th of July jollification.' This day was already rendered sacred in t...

Run! run! run! Quickly for a surgeon! Call watch, constable! raise the hue and cry! What's to be done? Why the devil don't you stir, John? This way, that way, every body fly! DO...

It was not until long after noon of the day of trial that Affidavy woke from the stupefaction into which he was plunged by the cup he had so craftily qualified; and then it was...

that his mere name had thrown all present into confusion. The crowning climax was put to the general panic, when some of the late pursuers were seen returning, early in the afte...

Ladies' honours Were ever, in my thoughts, unspotted ermines; Their good deeds holy temples, where the incense Burns not to common eyes. Your fears are virtuous, And so I shall...

Peace: thou hast told a tale, whose every word Threatens eternal slaughter to thy soul. ------Heaven is angry, and, be thou resolved, Thou art a man remark'd to taste of mischie...

Whither shall I go now? O Lucian!--to thy ridiculous purgatory,--to find Alexander the Great cobbling shoes, Pompey tagging points, and Julius Cæsar making hair-buttons, Hanniba...

The trout within yon wimplin burn Glides swift, a silver dart, And safe beneath the shady thorn, Defies the angler's art: My life was ance that careless stream, That wanton trou...

The violence of the storm was over, but the ferment in the elements was not yet allayed. The clouds had broken, and ever and anon, through their ragged gaps, the eye might trace...

The Master of Fiction has compared the course of a supposititious history to the career of a stone, rolled down the side of a mountain; which, at first, labouring and stumbling...

If you have ears that will be pierced, or eyes That can be open'd, a heart that may be touch'd, Or any part that yet sounds man about you; If you have touch of holy saints or he...

What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies, Whom thou, in terms so bloody, and so dear, Hast made thine enemies?---- Therefore, by law thou art condemn'd to die. SHAKSP...

Oh, now I see where your ambition points.-- Take heed you steer your vessel right, my son: This calm of heaven, this mermaid's melody, Into an unseen whirlpool draws you fast, A...

We draw a curtain over the scene of distress displayed in Gilbert's Folly, when the body of Henry Falconer, late the gayest of its inmates, was laid at the feet of his father an...

The painter, still keeping his eyes upon the pair, pondered over that propensity of our nature, which urges even the coldest and demurest of mortals into acts of extravagance, w...

Beshrew me but I love her heartily; For she is wise, if I can judge of her; And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true; And true she is, as she has proved herself; And therefore...

If thou long'st To have the story of thy infamous fortunes Serve for discourse in ordinaries and taverns, Thou art in the way; or to confound thy name, Keep on, thou canst not m...

The festival, so far as events allowed it to proceed, was rather a pic-nic, of a somewhat patriotic character, than a true national celebration; and such indeed it might have be...

What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Of Change, the which all mortall thing doth sway, But that thereby doth find, and plainly feele, How Mutability in them doth play Her...

As the Captain concluded his eccentric oration, rather from want of breath than because he lacked the will to continue it, a sonorous voice, very manly and agreeable, save that...

I come not for your welcome, I expect none; I bring no joys to bless the bed withal, Nor songs, nor masques, to glorify the nuptials. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER--_The Elder Brother_.

Your mountain Sack, your Frontignac, Tokay, and twenty more, sir, Your Sherry and Perry, that make men merry, Are deities I adore, sir; And well may Port Our praise extort, When...

It has been seen, that if the painter made an effort to restrain the enthusiasm of the multitude, he instantly proved that he was not without the virtue himself, so soon as he f...

Anxiety, expectation, and perhaps an unusual degree of restlessness on the part of her friend, who soon fell asleep, kept Miss Falconer awake until a very late hour; and when sh...

If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity of my life: no, I am no such thing; I am a man as other men are:--And there, indeed, let him name his name; and tell them plai...

Thought he, 'This is the lucky hour; Wine works, when vines are in the flower. This crisis, then, I'll set my rest on, And put her boldly to the question.' BUTLER.

In the meanwhile, and almost before her disappearance had been noticed by a single person, so great was the confusion at the moment the outlaws burst into the room, Hyland Gilbe...

To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt...

_Jaff_. Ha! _Pierre_. Speak; is't fitting? _Jaff_. Fitting! _Pierre_. Yes; is't fitting? _Jaff_. What's to be done? _Pierre_. I'd have thee undertake Something that's noble to p...

Dull grave--thou spoil'st the dance of youthful blood, Strik'st out the dimple from the cheek of mirth, And every smirking feature from the face, Branding our laughter with the...

The Colonel galloped through the park and down the hill, until he had approached nigh enough to Elsie's cottage to see that its porch was darkened by the bodies of several men,...

Will you walk out, sir? And if I do not beat thee presently Into as sound belief as sense can give thee, Brick me into the wall there for a chimney-piece, And say,--I was one o'...

The painter had long since made his way to Gilbert's Folly. As he hurried through the park, he discerned the figure of Miss Falconer; and notwithstanding the obscurity of the ho...