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Page 166 - MEETINGS AND PARTINGS. I hold it true, whate'er befall— I feel it when I sorrow most— 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.] Tennyson. IT being too late to take the boat for Natchez, Vance proceeded to the St. Charles. The gong for the
Page 241 - She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules. Pope. THE morning after the dinner, Madame Volney rose at sunrise, and was stealing on tiptoe into her dressing-room, when
Page 310 - There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies ; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And lore, and Man's unconquerable mind.
Page 175 - May God do so to me, and more also, if I do not give this beastly Slave Power blood for blood ! " " I can't help thinking, Charles," said Vance, " that your zeal has the purer origin. Mine sprang from a personal experience of wrong ; yours, from an abstract conception of what is just; from those inner motives that point to righteousness and
Page 170 - she stood beside him like his youth—transformed for him the real to a dream, clothing the palpable and the familiar with golden exhalations of the dawn!" Be wary, Vance! One look, one tone amiss, and
Page 28 - SHALL THERE BE A WEDDING ? All! spare your idol; think him human still; Charms he may have, but he has frailties too ; Dote not too much, nor spoil what ye admire. Young.
Page 146 - CONFESSIONS OF A MEAN WHITE. Throw thyself on thy God, nor mock him with feeble denial; Sure of his love, and oh, sure of his mercy at last; Bitter and deep though the draught, yet drain thou the cup of thy trial, And in its healing effect smile at the bitterness past.
Page 220 - Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy fountains, Draughts of life to me. Miss Muloch. ON coming down to the breakfast-table one morning, Kenrick was delighted to encounter Vance, and asked, " What success ? " " I found in Natchez," was the reply,
Page 40 - backward and downward course which ye are running into the pit of the bestial and the abhorred ? " " How very undignified for a spirit to rap on tables and talk commonplace!" objected the transcendentalists, who looked for Orphic sayings and Delphian profundities. To all which the investigators replied: We merely take facts as we find them. The
Page 46 - Because, immortal, therefore is indulged This strange regard of deities to dust; Hence, Heaven looks down on Earth with all her eyes; Hence, the soul's mighty moment in her sight; Hence, every soul has partisans above, And every thought a critic in the skies. Young. The creature is great to whom it is allowed to imagine questions to which only a God can