The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A Comedy

The hour of dawn!--how thrilling and intense! The matin songs of birds, that dart and soar On quivering wings, now break upon the sense As sharply as the cannon’s voice at mid-d...

Then let us come to business at once. I’ve brought you out here to have a consultation, and to get your opinion on certain things, each in his own department of learning, accord...

Now do we stand upon the green lawn of fresh enterprise. Stand yourself ’neath yonder tree, and fix your eyes on the balcony [WHETSTONE _takes position accordingly_], while I, f...

All of them. The banks of the Mississippi were covered. He had hired soldiers under him who harvested their scalps while he slew them. In my life in Flatpuddle Smith’s Biography...

What a glorious thing is one of our ordinary mundane cycles of time! ’Tis only a day; and yet it is a legacy too great for the richest man to put in his will. Let no one be so b...

Kind Mr. Surgeon, if we two fall at once, save me first; and I promise you a great reward from father’s patrimony. And as our wounds we do refer to you, I move to make you refer...

Peter Punch Number Two. We are twins; I swears it. Mine friends, these are my beautiful suits; and in this bottle is the wonder of seven hemispheres, the sublimely famous and ju...

Fair lady, I have led thee to this spot, Removed from all the merry throng of maskers; For love grows best in solitude, and thrives But poorly when too many eyes look on; So say...

He sleeps. ’Tis well. For centuries men, with eager eyes fixed upon the horizon, have awaited the coming of the purely literary duel. The auspicious morn is about to dawn, in fa...

Not yet! still in her dressing-room. To-night Fortune shall win a prize more delicate Than are the velvet leaves of fabled roses. For years my mind’s best nutriment has come By...

See how great Nature lavishes in this Hard wrinkle in the globe a subtle and Refining power, as if it were the open Volume of the earth with fern-clad cliffs For lettered pages....

A day and night,--and now another day hath waned for our recuperation; and our adventures have flown on lightning wings to Cornville. Now do we start on new emprise.

There is a wine finer than that of the grape to-night. Let this sparkling envelope of air be our distraction. See, Ninon, how it holds this globe like a cup star-jewelled, and p...

Hold on to your character; never let it slip, or all is lost. Remember, you are a Teuton knight-errant of the Horn of Plenty, and I am Rainbow, your squire. The ancient warrior...

By Jove, you’re a ferocious ape. I’ll have you arrested. Ho, there! Oh, policeman, come at once, I pray you, and quell this riot. Come, I command you. But he don’t come. What an...

Northlake is a most melancholy man. I believe if he had a warehouse full of anchors, and the market for anchors was booming, he’d be hopelessly unhappy. Said I to him, to-day: N...

So! so! I lose pile money on dat Hudson Ribber. My banker telegram fo’ moh margin every fifteen minutes fo’ foh hours. De agony of dem hours I can nebber tell you, Pompey. De te...