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In this short essay Nash reaches a higher level of eloquence than he had yet achieved, and, in spite of its otiose redundancy, this enthusiastic eulogy of Sidney is pleasant reading. In 1592, doubtless prior to the death of Greene, Nash published the earliest of his important books, the volume entitled "Pierce Penniless his Supplication to the Devil."
Knepp was in the house, and so shews me to her, and I went to her, and sat out the play, and then with her to Mrs. Manuel's, where Mrs. Pierce was, and her boy and girl; and here I did hear Mrs. Manuel and one of the Italians, her gallant, sing well.
Pierce, perhaps, made the mistake of trying to placate both, instead of taking his stand firmly with one or the other; and the consequence was that at the convention of 1856, he received a few votes from courtesy, but was never seriously in the running, which resulted in the nomination of James Buchanan.
For a time he hung over the balusters, listening and trying to pierce the blackness below; then slowly, step by step, he made his way downstairs, and, holding the candle above his head, peered about him. "Barnes!" he called. "Where are you?" Shaking with fright, he made his way along the passage, and summoning up all his courage pushed open doors and gazed fearfully into empty rooms.
And even the famous firm of Vesey and Symonds, or Symonds and Vesey, for your partner is one with you and you are one with your partner, may, in spite of all their legal wisdom, fail to pierce the thick disguises worn by the souls of their clients. The Man in the Iron Mask is a familiar figure in the office of his confidential solicitor. I repeat, I have never been happy since my boyhood "
He saw her and came forward to meet her with eagerness, holding out his hand, and smiling mechanically with even more than his usual intention. "What a success!" she said. "If it is, your portrait makes it so." "And where is my portrait?" Robin Pierce nipped in the bud a rather cynical smile. The painter wiped his forehead with a white silk handkerchief. "Can't you guess?
So dark and wondrous are the workings of our nature, that there are scarcely any of us, however light and unthinking, who would not be arrested by the countenance of one in deep reflection who would not pause, and long to pierce into the mysteries that were agitating that world, most illimitable by nature, but often most narrowed by custom the world within.
"Whatever Brother Pierce says, goes!" he declared. The lawyer, sitting behind at the desk by the window, said nothing. "The place is jest overrun with Irish," Brother Pierce began again. "They've got two Catholic churches here now to our one, and they do jest as they blamed please at the Charter elections. It'd be a good idee to pitch into Catholics in general whenever you can.
Chester, who had stood as if petrified during the struggle he was so surprised at this sudden and unexpected aid uttered an exclamation of surprise. "Who are you?" he asked, in vain trying to pierce the darkness with his eyes. The stranger chuckled. "You don't know, eh?" he asked. Again Chester peered at him intently.
So to the office after dinner; and thither comes Mr. Pierce, who tells me his condition, how he cannot get his money, about L500, which, he says, is a very great part of what he hath for his family and children, out of Viner's hand: and indeed it is to be feared that this will wholly undo the bankers.
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