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The Southern Literary Messenger, Volume I., 1834-35

my heart and chilled, one by one, the spring flowers of hope that grew there; but the blossoms of love thy image nurtured, were gathered into a garland to hang on thy tomb, and the tears of memory have preserved its freshness. Cousin Caroline!--she was the loveliest creature o...

Chapters

1. scene I describe; many a cold blast of the world's breath has blown on

my heart and chilled, one by one, the spring flowers of hope that grew there; but the blossoms of love thy image nurtured, were gathered into a garland to hang on thy tomb, and...

3. ACT I. _Scene 2_. New York, towards the end of the summer of 1780.

SIR H. CLINTON. Rebellion's tatter'd banner droops at last, Wanting the breath of stirring confidence. Discord, twin-brother to defeat, now lifts Within the Congress walls her g...

2. Chapter I. on "_English Poetry_," tracing as it does the rude and

early dawnings of that divine art in our own venerable vernacular, will deeply interest by its antique spirit, and by the accurate and profound investigation which its author ha...

8. BOOK VI.

This said, the chief of heroes, Hector, thence Departing, soon his splendid palace reach'd And courts commodious:--but he found not there His white-arm'd princess, fair Andromac...

7. LETTER TWENTY-FOURTH.

"What! again at your pen Leontine?" inquires Marcella, "assuredly you are a most indefatigable scribe or an exceedingly devoted sister!" "Leave out the _or_," I answer, "for I a...

5. LETTER TWENTY-SECOND.

I thank you beloved sister! for your affectionate letter of the ---- instant, and shall not delay answering it, for I am impatient to inform you of our recent agreeable excursio...

6. LETTER TWENTY-THIRD.

Our stay here is drawing to a close and consequently during the last ten days, we have been so occupied in shopping, visiting and _sight-seeing_, that I have found it impossible...

4. LETTER TWENTY-FIRST.

Here is an interesting narrative to amuse you, which I have just heard related. In the _Champs Elysées_, there stands a beautiful protestant chapel, where we attend divine servi...