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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 2 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 2 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some Cambridge schools in the olden time. (search)
alloyed delight, The joy, as when our side spelled “phthisic” right? My sketch were faulty, with entire omission Of our great crowning glory, Exhibition. Though scarce could you expect one of my age All that was spoke in public on the stage To recollect, yet Shylock's knife, Lochiel, And Young Pretenders haunt the memory still; And one named Norval of his Grampians vaunting, And grinding organs — nor the monkey wanting. One beau worth having I remember well; Shall I confess?--the bow of William Tell. Nor is it soon forgot how once a quarter Sore trembled every mother's son and daughter. The vain, the timid, all felt perturbation Upon the morning of Examination. For there would come that day strange visitors, Part conscript fathers, part inquisitors, Not men susceptible of mirth or pity, Not friends and ministers — but the Committee. How truly awful was the warning hum, And the announcement, “Here they are, they come!” The boys look bold and saucy, and each girl Gives the last f
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), The river Charles. (search)
ard curve Ran crinkling sunniness, like Helen's hair Glimpsed in Elysium, insubstantial gold. In how many of Longfellow's poems do we trace this love for the river, which flows ever on past the windows from which he used to exult in its ever-changing, never-wearying beauty! The broad meadows and the steel-blue river remind me of the meadows of Unterseen and the river Aar; and beyond them rise magnificent snow-white clouds, piled up like Alps. Thus the shades of George Washington and William Tell seem to walk together on these Elysian fields. Dearer was the river to the poet for the name, which reminded him of three friends, all true and tried, and how tender is the later good-night to one of these, a friend, who bore thy name, sleeping in sweet Auburn, around which the river still steals with such silent pace. Others have written too of our river, ours and the world's, but the cool wind blows more freshly, reminding us that this is still March. We look across to the Brigh