 | Seafaring life - 1854 - 504 pages
...the deserted fireside of home! How often has the mistress, the wife, and the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this...for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known is that she sailed from her port " and was never heard of more." The sight of the wreck as usual gave... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...Eternity in icy halls of cold sublimity, where forms and falls the avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! How has expectation darkened into anxiety — anxiety...for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known is, that she sailed from her port, and was never heard of more. A measure of corn would hardly suffice... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this...dread, and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento may ever return for love tocherish. All that may ever be known is, that she sailed from her port, "... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 320 pages
...at the deserted fireside of home! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this...dread, and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento may ever return for love to cherish. All that may ever be known is, that she sailed from her port,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1855 - 268 pages
...at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this...— and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento may ever return for love to cherish. All that may ever be known, is, that she sailed from her port,... | |
 | Stephen W. Clark - 1855 - 258 pages
...authorities, above the LAWS, above his COUNTRY." Anti- Climax is the opposite of the climax. EXAMPLE — " How has expectation darkened into anxiety, anxiety into dread, and dread into despair." — Irving. Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the begin ning of two or more words... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...up at the deserted fireside of home! How often has the father, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some ^casual intelligence of...for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known is, that she sailed from her port, "and was never heard of more." LXXXVI. — THE VOYAGE — CONCLUDED.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 pages
...up at the deserted fireside of home! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pouuLover the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this...dread, and dread into despair ! Alas! not one memento may ever return for love to cherish. All that may ever be known is, that she sailed from her port,... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 pages
...precious in a noble cause ? 349. How has expectation darkened into anxiety— anxiety into dread—and dread into despair ! Alas! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever bo known is, that she sailed from her port, and was never heard of more. 350. A measure of corn would... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this...dread, and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento may ever return for love to cherish ! All that may ever be known is, that she sailed from her port,... | |
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What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home! How often has the... 
