Essie Danton's Choice and a Boston Romance
Essie Danton leaves rural life for a city marriage to Victor Dana but longs for Martin Holmesby. After a dramatic confession of love, she breaks with wealth for true affection as Marty declines. Marty falls gravely ill, Essie reconciles, and they marry after a perilous illness.
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Essie Danton
Marty
Martin Holmesby
Essie
Hssie
Martin
Vish
Hssia
Victor Dana
Jissie
Sle
Issie
Martin Jolmesby
Essie Darling
Basie
Darling
Bassie
If TI Today Could Be Lord Of My Life Poem Fragment
By KR H STODDARD this poem fragment contemplates love loyalty and devotion using a speaker asking a beloved whether lordship or singleness would change his affection. It contrasts imagined power with steady intimate devotion and ends with a plea for the beloved to answer whether she would remain his wife.
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Mar
Shakespeare
Leltham
Bishop Welson
Carlyle
Home as the heart’s true dwelling across realms
The passage declares home lies not in place or status but in love and belonging. It echoes Diamond Dust with lines about Tis Tome and a cottage’s charm, arguing true joy comes from inner peace and affection rather than palace grandeur or worldly stations. It concludes that real home exists where the heart rests.
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Hell
Evening Song of Sun and Sea in Cleopatra Night
A lyrical verse invites a lover to watch the sun meet the sea as the day dissolves into a rosy wine of night. The speaker urges closeness and reunion, asking stars to comfort the heavens and the winds to glow. The night pleads not to separate sun and sky or lips and hands.
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Egypt
Cleopatra
The Pharisee and Sadducee in a Lover’s Talk
A poem depicts a preacher sermon on Pharisees and Sadducees as a couple walk home. A man proclaims devotion to Mary though she rebukes him with raised eyes, while he remains her worshipper in quiet conflict and affection.
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Martin Holmesby
Hissie
Hasie
Martin
Lizsie M. Muthern
New York Story Paper
Epigram on French Government and a Fatherly Lesson
A November 21 1790 Parisian epigram questions current French governance as elective despotic democratic mixed with aristocracy and monarchical elements. A fatherly Mr X advises his son toPolite manners extend to all servants, warning politeness toward others, including parents, builds character.
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France
Mr. X
Writings on business virtue and prudence in a trades journal
A collage of aphorisms from classic authors on business conduct followed by a detailed industry piece on meat marketing. The Western Farm Journal essay argues for farmers to cure hog products locally to improve profits, reduce packer margins, and boost regional trade, urging policy support for farming efficiency.
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Chicago
West
Western Farm Journal
Thunder Cat Mischief and a Broadcloth Tail
A comic scene unfolds as Alvy Moody visits bia dulcinea in a dim parlor. Mary's mother discovers the couple and orders the cat removed. Alvy flees through a window, the rain-drenched room revealed by light, while a tail made of broadcloth hangs outside.
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Alvy Moody
Bia Dulcinea
Alvy
Bia
Mary
Paterfamilias
Mind over body warns against disease fear
A Journal of Health article argues health depends on cheerfulness and faith rather than worry about illness. It notes that intense focus on disease can cause psychosomatic symptoms, and that doctors may succumb to what they study while mental power shapes life and death.
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Journal of Health
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Ensie
Kr, H, Stoddard
Tue Rey, Joan Young
Sidney Lanier
Lippincott's
Pharisee
Pelo
China
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