alas! the modern historian, whose pen, like my own, is doomed to confine itself to dull matter of fact, seeks in vain among their oblivious remains for some memorial that may tell the instructive tale of their glory and their ruin. "Wars, conflagrations, deluges," says Aristotle, "destro...
to demand his dog and gun. As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. "These mountain beds do not agree with me," thought Rip; "and if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have...
and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle‐roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue nts of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape...
been distinguished; while the latter, it must be confessed, plumed themselves vastly thereupon; considering these recordings in the lights of letters patent of nobility, establishing their claims to ancestry, which, in this republican country, is a matter of no little solicitude and vain-glory. ...
76.Land of Hope and Glory 77.After You've Gone 78.There's a Ship That's Bound for Blighty 79.You Broke My Heart to Pass the Time Away 80.The Star Spangled Banner 81.I Ain't Got Nobody 82.Indiana One Step 83.All I Can Do Is Just Love You 84.The Old Gray Mare 85.Hesitation...