Southern and South-western Sketches: Fun, Sentiment and AdventureGentleman of Richmond J.W. Randolph, 1852 - 190 páginas |
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Página xx - Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom without One in Boston (1853).
Página 102 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Página xiii - II. The Natural Productions and Conveniences of the Country, suited to Trade and Improvement. III. The Native Indians, their Religion, Laws and Customs, in War and Peace. IV. The present State of the Country, as to the Polity of the Government, and the Improvements of the Land. By a Native and Inhabitant of the Place.
Página 140 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Página 43 - Both of them." "I'll take them .' When can I have them ?" "Any time you choose to call for them." "Very well — they're mine. I think I shall double my money on them, at least.
Página 42 - A loud laugh followed this chance remark. Jenks immediately answered, " I would ; but who would want them? Any person making the purchase would lose money by the operation, I'm thinking." "Well," I observed, "I would be willing to take the speculation, if the price could be made reasonable. " " Oh, I'll sell 'em cheap," answered Jenks, winking at the gentlemen present. " What do you call cheap ?" I inquired. "Ill sell 'em for fifty dollars," Jenks answered, puffing forth a cloud of smoke across the...
Página 10 - This continued thirty minutes, while the orator painted the folly of the sinner, which was his theme. I looked on and laughed with the rest, but finally began to fear the result as to the speaker. "How," I exclaimed, mentally, "will he ever be able to extricate his audience from that deep whirlpool of humor? If he ends thus, when the merry mood subsides, and calm reflection supervenes, "will not the revulsion of feeling be deadly to his fame ? Will not every hearer realize that he has been trifled...
Página 43 - said I ; " let those laugh that win ; I'll make a profit out of those whiskers, depend on it. " For a week after this, whenever I met Jenks, he asked me when I intended to call for my whiskers. "I'll let you know when I want them, " was always my answer. "Take good care of them — oil them occasionally ; I shall call for them one of these days.
Página 30 - considerable" of a fighter, and in a regular knock-down-and-drag-out row, was hard to beat. In order that the world may not remain in darkness as to his doings in this last behalf, and fearing lest there may be no one who entertains for him that particularly warm regard which animates us towards him, we have thought it incumbent on us in evidence of our attachment for the reverend hero, to jot down an incident that lingers in our memory respecting him — bequeathing it as a rich legacy to remotest...
Página 101 - The -whole world is a ball we find, The water dances to the wind; The sea itself, at night and noon, Rises and dances to the moon. The earth and planets round the sun, Still dance; nor will their dance be done, Till nature in one blast is blended ; • Then may we say the ball is ended.