Poem Fragment Reflects on Beauty Time and Thought
A fragmentary verse praises enduring beauty beyond youth. It contrasts youth’s allure with inner radiance that crowns the brow with thought and wonder, attributing shaping to Time the refining hand. The speaker addresses a beloved, elevating beauty through intellect and inner grace.
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The Seducer A Sketch by Niel mx
A nameless narrator recalls city life and a chance encounter with Ellen his long lost sister. Ellen reveals she is a fallen woman and recounts seduction, ruin, and a child born of shame. The narrator vows vengeance but Ellen begs mercy as she dies, leaving the seducer to confront his own guilt.
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Nature's Beauty Beyond Borders Inspires A Dautipieu
The passage extols nature's splendor as unmatched anywhere, praising oceans of liquid silver, luminous mountains, fertile valleys, thunderous cataracts, endless plains, serpentine rivers, vast forests, and summer skies. It asserts the sublime and beautiful in nature is richest within one’s own country, not needing foreign lands to inspire the soul.
The Newspaper as Wisdom of the Age says Franklin
A fragment quotes Benjamin Franklin praising newspapers as the wisdom of the age and urges families to read. It warns that without a newspaper a family falls behind in information and culture and references domestic life and idle hands.
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Wonderful Log Rolling and Western Thieves Tale
An English traveler narrates bold thefts by river rogues and a Cincinnati man named Case jeers at western misdeeds. The dialogue spans log thefts, a wife and child abductions, and then shifts to Congress life anecdotes and social scenes in Washington with notable figures and hotels.
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The Apple Girl and a Fairy Book Dream
A ragged fourteen year old girl sells apples at a doorway while reading a “fairy book” in the office floor. The scene contrasts her poverty with dreams of fairyland, as she naps amid worldly concerns and newspaper chatter about markets and events fades from her mind.
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Black servant misreads coat styles in Charleston dinner
A Charleston host trains a black attendant to hand plates by a fashion cue. The guest with two double breasted coats confuses the cue and the servant ends up handing plates to the eruptions on both sides, uttering a surprised cry.
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