Milford Bard Poem Fragment on Virtue and Love
A fragmentary verse voice critiques deception and villainy in love. The speaker warns against unworthy schemes to ruin innocence and beauty and urges the return of a killing thought to preserve virtue. The piece blends archery of metaphor with moral opposition, attributed to Milford Bard.
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Milford Bard
The Highlands Romance in a Quiet Dinner Set
A husband recalls a distant Highland shooting trip and a vivid romantic scene seen from a hotel window. In a seamless tale, he and his wife entertain a friend while the narrator relives the moment a mysterious young woman near a recruiting yard casts a fleeting glance and sends a parting token across a crowded street.
The End Of All Perfection In Man And Child
A narrator contrasts robust youthful prowess with decay and death, then recalls beauty in a dancing youth and a serene infant, and finally regards a worldly honorable man famed for wealth and status as time erodes. The meditation ends with a moral from Christ about becoming like children to enter heaven.
End of Perfection I Saw in a Bitter Moment
The speaker recalls witnessing a man who amassed wealth yet ignored God and the pleas of laborers and the beggar outside his door. Formerly a teachable child, Thad is remembered as the infant once loved, now gazing on with disappointment as the narrator proclaims, I have seen an end of all perfection.
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Jayeel
Kent
Court Yard
Atention
Coperly
Alough
Lengih
Ife
Tagain
Kingdom of
Heaven
Thad
Catherine Vanhorn
Court of Common Pleas
Muron
New Maven
Huron County
Ohio
New Haven
Elisha Stewart
Dmir
John Vanhorn
Norwall
Wonders of Creation and Great Lakes Facts
A passage reflects on eggs revealing life and nature’s power, and Drummond’s Letters to a Young Naturalist. It then lists Lake Ontario, Erie, and Huron with dimensions, depths, and surface elevations above tide water at key points. The article ties natural wonders to divine design and scientific curiosity.
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Drummond
N.Y. Standard & Statesman
Lake Ontario
Cape Vincent
Erie
Albany
Huron
Lake basins described with elevations and dimensions
The passage details lake facts including surface and bottom elevations for Lake Huron Erie and Superior, their approximate lengths and widths, depths, and a calculation implying the bottom of Lake Erie lies below ocean surface. It notes Superior as a head fountain feeding rivers, lakes, and Niagara Falls area, then mentions a semicircular route extending toward fertile lands and a distant Atlantic estuary.
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Huron
Green Bay
Superior
Lake Erie
Niagara Falls
Lake Superior
Grand Reservoir
Niagara
Lawrence, &c
Atlantic
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Mr Blank
General Washington
Norwalk
D. H. Pitch
New York
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Philadelphia
W. B
Charles C. Moore
Orrosire Cou
Haxrvron
Ivy
Buffalo
Rochester
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poeSee
Huron County Supreme Court
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Amos S. Auspix
Supreme Court
Mos S. Amsden
Amos S
Saul Ifaron County
D. Gibbs
Wrartans & Boaur
Sag Elisha Stewart
Joehn Vanhorn