Category: Poetry
_My Dear Madam_,—Under that most severe visitation of Divine Providence, which it is your fate to suffer, I well know how worse than useless—how almost cruel and insulting may appear any mention of comfort, or consolation on the part of a friend. I have none such to offer: yet...
_My Dear Madam_,—Under that most severe visitation of Divine Providence, which it is your fate to suffer, I well know how worse than useless—how almost cruel and insulting may a...
2. LETTER V.I did not receive your letter of the 26th until last evening, and then I was obliged for it to my good old neighbor Col. Morton, who never omits an occasion of doing a favor how...
3. chapter 14—or “_Leaving_ Rolfe to attend to his profession, and4. chapter 15. Many of the chapters commence in a similar strain, andeven in the middle of some of them the same interruptions occur. And this adjustment of the date is so frequently repeated that Mr. French's readers are kept in a constant state...
5. LETTER XXV.Mr. Sparks' MS. has an odd appearance. The characters are large, round, black, irregular and perpendicular. The lines are close together, and the whole letter wears at first sig...
6. LETTER XXVI._My Dear Sir_,—It gives me great pleasure to receive a letter from you. Let me see, I think I have seen you once or twice in——where was it? However, your remarks upon “Melanie a...
7. LETTER XXVII._Dear Sir_,—I have to inform you that “the pretty little poem” to which you allude in your letter is not, as you suppose, of my composition. The author is unknown to me. The poe...
8. LETTER XXIX._Dear Sir_,—In reply to your query touching the “authenticity of a singular incident,” related in one of my poems, I have to inform you that the incident in question is purely a...
9. LETTER XXX._Dear Sir_,—I have not the pleasure of your acquaintance, but thank you for the great interest you seem to take in my welfare. I have no relations by the name of Miller, and thi...
10. LETTER XXXII.The writing of Professor Anthon is remarkably neat and beautiful—in the formation of particular letters as well as in the tout-ensemble. The perfect regularity of the MS. gives...
11. LETTER XXXIII._Dear Sir_,—I have looked with great care over several different editions of Plato, among which I may mention the Bipont edition, 1781-8, 12 vols, oct.; that of Ast, and that of...
12. LETTER XXXIV._Dear Sir_,—I beg leave to assure you that I have _never_ received, for my Magazine, _any_ copy of verses with so ludicrous a title as “The nine and twenty Magpies.” Moreover, i...
13. LETTER XXXVI.Mister—I say—It's not worth while trying to come possum over the Major. Your letter's no go. I'm up to a thing or two—or else my name isn't
14. LETTER XXXVII._Dear Sir_,—I am exceedingly and excessively sorry that it is out of my power to comply with your rational and reasonable request. The subject you mention is one with which I am...
15. LETTER XXXVIII._My Good Fellow_,—I am not disposed to find fault with your having addressed me, although personally unknown. Your favor (of the —— ultimo) finds me upon the eve of directing my...