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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 350 (search)
inking, in response to the call of their commanding officer, Lieut. Morris: Shall we give them a broadside as she goes? “Shall we give them a broadside, my boys, as she goes?” Shall we send yet another, to tell, In iron-tongued words, to Columbia's foes, How bravely her sons say “Farewell” ? Ay! what though we sink 'neath the turbulent wave, 'Tis with duty and right at the helm; And over the form should the fierce waters rave, No tide can the spirit o'erwhelm! For swift o'er the billows of Charon's dark stream We'll pass to the immortal shore, Where the “waters of life” in brilliancy beam, And the pure float in peace evermore! “Shall we give them a broadside once more, my brave men?” Ay, ay, rose the full, earnest cry; “A broadside,” “a broadside,” we'll give them again! Then “for God and the right nobly die.” “Haste! haste!” for amid all that battling din Comes a gurgling sound fraught with fear, As swift-flowing waters pour rushingly in; Up! up! till
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
agounTimothy WilliamsBoston224.82 8 BrigGulliverT. Magoun'sT. MagounJoseph Lee, jun.Boston247.80 91807Sch.Eliza & LydiaS. Lapham'sC. Turner & E. BriggsJohn BanisterBoston100.04 10 ShipCommerceS. Lapham'sC. TurnerJohn HollandBoston377.85 11 BrigCreoleT. Magoun'sT. MagounJohn WilliamsBoston147.28 121808BrigReaperT. Magoun'sT. MagounAndrew CabotBoston284.85 131809ShipAriadneS. Lapham'sC. TurnerNathaniel GoddardBoston382.02 14 BrigGilpinT. Magoun'sT. MagounAndrew LeachBoston209.33 15 BrigCharonT. Magoun'sT. MagounP. P. JacksonBoston238.20 16 BrigGipsyT. Magoun'sT. MagounJoseph Lee, jun.Boston283.26 171810ShipMary & FrancesS. Lapham'sC. TurnerNathaniel GoddardBoston438.90 18 ShipCordeliaS. Lapham'sC. TurnerP. P. PopeBoston425.75 19 ShipIrisS. Lapham'sC. TurnerNathaniel ParsonsBoston264.57 20 ShipSachemT. Magoun'sT. MagounJohn HollandBoston396.79 211811BrigGeorgeT. Magoun'sT. MagounJohn HollandBoston177.66 22 BrigMargaretT. Magoun'sT. MagounFrancis WelchBoston172.71 23 Br
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
he refuse or sterile gangue thrown into a pile. 3. The pile of wood stacked for burning into charcoal. Hear′ing—trumpet. An acoustic instrument to collect a larger volume of sound and conduct it to the ear. See ear-trumpet. Hearse. A carriage for the conveyance of dead bodies. In the hearses of the ancient Egyptians we may see traces of the fabled passage across the lake which separated the land of life from the land of death, and from which the Greeks derived their Styx and Charon. The legendary custom was to hold an assize at the point where the corpse was embarked, to determine whether the deceased had by his virtues or atonement merited the land of rest. When the determination was favorable, the bier was placed on the boat, which bore his remains to the city of silence. In after times, — as it would seem, — when no lake intervened, the bier or body of the hearse was made to represent a miniature boat, with liliputian rowers, and was mounted on four wheels, or o
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Leaves from a Roman diary: February, 1869 (Rewritten in 1897） (search)
ly; a poor unfortunate to whom life was a curse is timidly raising his eyes, scarcely believing that he is in paradise; men with fine philosophic heads converse together; and a number of honest servingwomen express their astonishment with such gestures as are customary among that class of persons. In the lunettes above, wingless angels are hovering with the cross, the column, and other instruments of Christ's agony, which they clasp with a loving devotion. In the lower right-hand corner, Charon appears (taken from pagan mythology) with a boat-load of sinners, whom he smites with his oar according to Dante's description. He is truly a terrible demon, and his fiery eyes gleam across the length of the chapel. Minos, who receives the boat-load in the likeness of Biagio da Cesena, the pope's master of ceremonies, is another to match him. A modern fop with banged hair is stepping from the boat to the shore of hell. This is said to be the best painted portion of the picture,most life-
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, My out-door study (search)
e miles of silence and still waters and green shores, overhung with a multitudinous and scattered fleet of purple and golden clouds, now furling their idle sails and drifting away into the vast harbor of the South. Voices of birds, hushed first by noon and then by possibilities of tempest, cautiously begin once more, leading on the infinite melodies of the June afternoon. As the freshened air invites them forth, so the smooth and stainless water summons us. Put your hand upon the oar, says Charon, in the old play, to Bacchus, and you shall hear the sweetest songs. The doors of the boat-house swing softly open, and the slender wherry, like a water-snake, steals silently in the wake of the dispersing clouds. The woods are hazy, as if the warm sunbeams had melted in among the interstices of the foliage and spread a soft film throughout the whole. The sky seems to reflect the water, and the water the sky; both are roseate with color, both are darkened with clouds, and between them b
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., Old ships and ship-building days of Medford. (search)
g over bodily pain and the hope of immortality victorious over the fear of death. Cheerful he gave his being up and went to share the holy rest that waits a life well spent. The other two privateers, the Avon and the Aboellino, were built too late to take an active part in the war. Meanwhile, on the Pacific ocean, the British cruisers and privateers had driven all the merchant fleet into neutral ports. Among them was the brig Pedlar, which took refuge in the Hawaiian Islands. The Charon was unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of a British privateer. The frigate Essex was finally sent to the Pacific and played havoc with the British cruisers and privateers for a time, but she was finally captured by two British vessels of war in a desperate naval battle off Valparaiso. On the Northwest coast Astor had finally succeeded in establishing a trading post, after several previous attempts had been defeated by Indian attacks. His company was called the Pacific Fur Co. He
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
y bud and blossom with a renewed spring. The showers and the sunshine may impart life and beauty to the succeeding growth; but, unfortunately, showers and sunshine do not agree so well with the descendants of men who erect shelters to protect themselves from their influence." And now listen to what the flowers say in this behalf: "Secure something while you may, to guard your wives and children against being compelled to rely on the cold charity of the world. They must 'toil and spin' while we do not. Will you hearken to our mute appeal?" In our humble judgment, the eloquence of the flowers is irresistible, and we positively think that the still, small voice that breathes from their petals is more convincing than a dozen paragraphs or pamphlets filled with tables of calculations stretched out to the "crack of doom." "We all must tread the paths of fate, And ever shakes the mortal urn, Whose lot embarks us soon or late, On Charon's boat, ah! never to return." Francis.
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wendell Phillip's late Speech. (search)
The defensive system, This system, so far as we are aware, he never been reserved to by any nation, while it was able to prosecute offensive war. In the case of Ly-Vendee, referred to by us of Friday, that was eminently the case. The whole district comprised but 800,000 souls when the war broke out although when it crossed the Loire, and became what is knows as the "Charon war," about 2,500,000 were added to the number. Oat of this population, some fifty thousand peasants, led by the proprietor of the soil, took up arms of every description They were in general devoted to their land lords, between whom and themselves the patriarchal its existed after the feudal system had been slandered throughout the rest of France. They were firmly attached to their church, which had been overthrown by the revelation, and were stimulated and encouraged by the parochial clergy, who chemically followed them through all their dangers. --The immediate cause of the outbreak was a levy made by the