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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 50 (search)
ly introduced to those also, and begin to dream about them, perhaps, in the slumbers that follow. I do not wish to put all the blame of Punch and Judy on our English ancestors, for it is much older than they. The very figure of this hero was familiar on the Roman stage, and an ancient statuette has been found which represents him essentially as now. The play is not much coarser than some of the old mystery plays of the Middle Ages; and the very name is by some supposed to have come from Pontius cum Judaeis--Pontius Pilate with the Jews. The drama itself is Italian, and belongs to the seventeenth century, where it had a highly spiritual conclusion and a moral bearing. The English version strikes off all these redeeming traits, and the American is worse than the English. For instance, the English performance has usually a little dog (Toby) added, the only live member of the dramatis personae, and the only decent one, his worst offence being to leap up and snap at everybody's nos
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
ssor G. H., 248. Parnell, C. S., 272. Parochialism, 222. Patience quoted, 51. Peabody Museum of American Archaeology, 287. Perdita, 102, 103. Petrarch, Francisco, quoted, 75, 285. Phelps, E. J., 137. Phi Beta Kappa Society, the, 288. Philanthropist, improvidence of a, 188. Phillips, Wendell, 284, 309. Pike, Owen, quoted, 212, 213. Pinart, Mrs., Nuttall, 286. Pisani, Catherine de, 86. Plato cited, 178. Plea for the uncommonplace, A, 192. Poe, E. A., 289. Pontius cum Judaeis, 256. Porter, Jane, 157. Precieuses, the, 87. Presidency in United States, 128. Prince Hal, 49. publisher, the search after A, 151. Punch and Judy, the brutality of, 254. Purse, the independent, 115. Q. Quite rustic, 100. R. Rachel, 250, 252, 263. Radcliffe, Ann, 160. Rambouillet, Marquis de, 86. Ramona, influence of, 236. Rank in England, 126. Recamier, Madame, 76, 77. Relationship to one's mother, on one's, 43. return to the hills,
The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The news from the Rappahannock.fighting at Deep Run crossing. reported crossing of the enemy at Port Royal and Nelly's Ford. The little reliable news which reaches us from the line of the Rappahannock is important, and indicates a conflict within the next few days, perhaps to-day or to-morrow. On Tuesday night the enemy succeeded in laying their Pontius at the mouth of Deep Run, and up to the last advices from there yesterday a large force had crossed, and our forces were in hourly anticipation that a general fight would commence. On Wednesday there was skirmishing throughout the day between our pickets and the advance of the enemy. Our loss in this skirmishing to about eighty in killed, wounded and missing. After crossing at Deep Run the columns of the enemy divided, some of their forces going up and others down the river, keeping close to the banks of the stream, and seemingly avoiding . Throughout the day yesterday, on we are informed, matters were pr