The Pandora ..., Volume 4

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Franklin Printing House, 1890
 

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Page 179 - CIGARETTES are made from the brightest, most delicately flavored and highest cost Gold Leaf grown in Virginia. This is the Old and Original brand of Straight Cut Cigarettes, and was brought out by us in the year 1875 BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, and observe that the firm name as below is on every package.
Page 170 - HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE. Prepared according to the directions of Prof. EN HORSFORD. This Preparation is recommended by Physicians as a most excellent and agreeable tonic and appetizer. It nourishes and invigorates the tired brain and body, imparts renewed energy and vitality, and enlivens the functions.
Page 15 - THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling, to the prompter's bell : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay.
Page 170 - is PRINTED on the label. All others are spurious. NEVER SOLD IN BULK.
Page 148 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 147 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 147 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 163 - FOR ARTISTIC USE in Fine Drawings, Nos. 659 (The celebrated Crowquill), 290 and 291. FOR FINE WRITING, Nos.
Page 148 - But is there no quick recreation granted? King. Ay, that there is : our court, you know, is haunted With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...

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