Category: Poetry
GREECE was the land of poetry. Endowed with a language, of all others adapted to every variation of feeling, from the deepest pathos or boldest heroism, to the lightest mirth, and gifted with the most exquisite sensibility to all the charms of poetry, it is not surprising that...
'Certainly,' interrupted Rust, bowing with his hand on his heart, and his eyes closed, with an expression of profound humility, 'tell me whatever you please; I shall be delighte...
8. Part 8The amazed couple then recalled all the details of the early infancy of Gustavus. He had, in fact, been placed at nurse at Pontoise, and the child had been brought home in conse...
7. Part 7The sea rolls lazily, and whist. As the motions of the whirling mist; A pantomime of air and sea, That hath a solemn witchery, Which puzzles the cock, who has the right If any o...
6. Part 6How much they had to say! And yet when it was said, and they had parted, and Kate was recalling it to mind in her own room, how little there was in it! How familiarly she had le...
2. Part 2LAND of the Pilgrim-Rock! how broad thy streams, Thy hills how peopled with the brave and free! With glorious sights thy fruitful valley teems, And lavish Nature pours her gifts...
11. Part 11We counsel Mr. PARSONS to pursue the commendable task which he has allotted to himself, the commencement alone of which redounds so much to the credit of his taste, scholarship,...
13. Part 13'The strawberries (an old writer has remarked that doubtless GOD _might_ have made a better berry, but he never _did_) are as deliriously ripe as if they had been smiled on by V...
4. Part 4These calm and rational exhortations to 'take it coolly,' and 'never to cry for spilled milk,' are all very good till they are needed. They are extremely salutary before the fev...
10. Part 10In entering upon his account of the political system of Moses, Mr. WINES insisted, with great earnestness, that all the essential principles of civil liberty and constitutional...
9. Part 9'I have read somewhere,' said Rufus in the course of their conversation, 'and the remark struck me as forcible at the time, that men ought to mistrust too favorable beginnings....
12. Part 12No wonder that 'great cheering'--that 'enthusiastic,' 'prolonged,' 'deafening,' 'long-continued,' 'renewed' applause--followed the utterance of these sentences, from the united...
3. Part 3While the honest Dutchman was thus inhaling the breezes of good fortune, his rivals, Jonas Jones and Company, were fast sinking into obscurity. The exquisite individual whose na...
1. Part 1GREECE was the land of poetry. Endowed with a language, of all others adapted to every variation of feeling, from the deepest pathos or boldest heroism, to the lightest mirth, a...
14. Part 14'M.'s curt notelet is impertinent and ungentleman-like. His article was a mere _ébauche_, and very indifferent at that. The _nuclei_ of his associations were objects of the very...