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While admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time play'd great and fitting parts that the pensive complaint, the ballads, wars, amours, legends of Europe, &c., have, many of them, been inimitably render'd in rhyming verse that there have been very illustrious poets whose shapes the mantle of such verse has beautifully and appropriately envelopt and though the mantle has fallen, with perhaps added beauty, on some of our own age it is, not-withstanding, certain to me, that the day of such conventional rhyme is ended.
Only the Mediterranean sea has play'd some such part in history, and all through the past, as the Mississippi is destined to play in the future. By its demesnes, water'd and welded by its branches, the Missouri, the Ohio, the Arkansas, the Red, the Yazoo, the St.
"Faith, sir, my rest is up, And what I now pull shall no more afflict me Than if I play'd at span-counter." Monsieur Thomas, IV. 9. Dyce accepts Nares' suggestion that pull means to draw a card; but if a player is standing on his cards, why should he want to draw a card?
The great military events which stamp'd out the rebellion drew attention away from the sad drama which starvation and disease play'd in those gloomy pens in the far recesses of sombre southern forests." From a letter of "Johnny Bouquet," in N. Y. "Tribune," March 27, '81.
There was a series of plays and dramatic genre characters by a gentleman bill'd as Ranger very fine, better than merely technical, full of exquisite shades, like the light touches of the violin in the hands of a master. There was the actor Anderson, who brought us Gerald Griffin's "Gysippus," and play'd it to admiration. Sefton, John Sefton, Geo. Some of the women hastily remember'd were: Mrs.
False love, and hast thou play'd me this In summer among the flowers? I will repay thee back again In winter among the showers. Unless again, again, my love, Unless you turn again; As you with other maidens rove, I'll smile on other men.
At fairs he play'd before the spearmen, And gaily graithed in their gear then, Steel bonnets, pikes, and swords shone clear then As ony bead; Now wha sall play before sic weir men, Since Habbie's dead! Elegy on Habbie Simpson.
The first rifle they gave me play'd the same trick, and yet I liv'd through it, though not as onharmless as I've got out of this affair. Thomas Hutter is master of one pistol less than he was this morning, but, as it happened in trying to sarve him, there's no ground of complaint. Now, draw near, and let us look farther into the inside of the chist."
"No," Anna said quietly. "Th' hard times play'd th' divil wi' it before it was born, I'll be bound," said a second. A third averred that the child was "the very spit out of its father's mouth." Ghost stories, stories of the famine, of hard luck, of hunger, of pain and the thousand and one aspects of social and personal sorrow had the changes rung on them. Anna sat in the corner.
That is an officer's letter, and I now see that you are on the right side. You play'd so deep a game, at first, hows'ever, that I didn't know exactly what to make of you. Now, as for the Pottawattamie do you set him down as friend or foe, in reality?" "Enemy take your scalp take my scalp, in minute only can't catch him. He got belt from Montreal, and it look handsome in his eye."
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