The Redskins, Or, Indian and Injin: Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts, Volume 1Burgess & Stringer, 1846 - American literature |
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Page 133 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. CADE Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Page 165 - This is worse than visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations.
Page 80 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Page 87 - Jefferson said, if he were to choose between a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, he would take the last." " Ay, Jefferson did not mean newspapers as they are now. I am old enough to see the change that has taken place. In his day, three or four fairly convicted lies would damn any editor : now, there are men that stand up under a thousand. I'll tell you what, Hugh, this country is jogging on under two of the most antagonist systems possible — Christianity and the...
Page 162 - WHERE the poor cease to pay, Go, lov'd one, and rest ! Thou art wearing away To the land of the blest. Our father is gone. Where the wrong'd are forgiven, And that dearest one, Thy husband, in heaven. No toil in despair, No tyrant, no slave, No bread-tax is there, With a maw like the grave.
Page 205 - With look like patient Job's eschewing evil; With motions graceful as a bird's in air; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clinched fingers in a captive's hair...
Page 187 - If he were with me, King of Tuscarora ! Gazing, as I, upon thy portrait now, In all its medalled, fringed, and beaded glory, Its eye's dark beauty, and its thoughtful brow — Its brow, half martial, and half diplomatic, Its eye, upsoaring like an eagle's wings ; Well might he boast that we, the Democratic, Outrival Europe, even in our Kings ! For thou wast monarch born.
Page 97 - He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
Page 47 - That she is ruddy, fleet, and strong; And down the rocks can leap along, Like rivulets in May? And she hath smiles to earth unknown; Smiles, that with motion of their own Do spread, and sink, and rise; That come and go with endless play, 10 And ever, as they pass away, Are hidden in her eyes.
Page 7 - 'Look at the newspapers that will be put into your hands tomorrow morning, fresh from Wall and Pine and Ann streets. They will be in convulsions, if some unfortunate wight of a Senator speak of adding an extra corporal to a regiment of foot, as an alarming war-demonstration, or quote the fall of a fancy stock that has not one cent of intrinsic value, as if it betokened the downfall of a nation ; while they doze over this volcano, which is raging and gathering strength beneath the whole community,...