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Updated: June 18, 2025
I ask nothin' hard of you, I only ask that you demand, demand is the right word, not ask; that would be grovelin' trucklin' folly, but demand that the public that has long ignored my daugther Ardelia's claim to a seat amongst the immortal poets, demand them, compel them to pause, to listen, and then seat her there, up, up on the highest, most perpendiciler pinnacle of fame's pillow.
'Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! A more sensible exclamation than poets usually preface with their whining 'Ahs' and 'Ohs!" "What we are is nothing," pursued Madame Dalibard; "what we seem is much." Ardworth thrust his hands into his pockets and shook his head. The wise woman continued, unheeding his dissent from her premises,
And right nobly did he fulfil in all respects his promise; so that at the end as was afterward well said of him by Mr. Colfax he had mounted so high, that, "doubly crowned, as statesman, and as warrior 'From the top of Fame's ladder he stepped to the Sky!"
They engaged her furiously for three hours off the island of Cyprus, when the large ship was run ashore and her crew fled up the country. The Fame's crew then boarded and brought her off.
memories of the time when she and Abram had worked together in field or garden or home, and the County Fair brought to all a yearly opportunity to stand on the height of achievement and know somewhat the taste of Fame's enchanted cup.
Near the returned general, Josephine, to her supreme delight, saw her dear son, from whom she had been separated so long; and Eugene, whom she had left in Paris a mere boy, presented himself to her in Milan, in his officer's uniform, as a youth, with countenance beaming with joy and eyes full of lustre, ready to enter upon fame's pathway, on which his step-father, so brilliant a model, was walking before him.
I never liked Jabez Wind and shouldn't if I'd seen him settin' swingin' his legs off the very top of Fame's pillow. He wuz oncongenial to me, made so from the beginin'. I never knew any particular hurt of him, but he seemed so much like his own sir name, so puffed up and onsubstantial.
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