a something of some time whirling
There mingled with this a something of evident satisfaction as
he watched the flames consume what he had emphatically called the accursed thing — ₁
a something of over-precision and studiedness,
and of the want of perfect plasticity. ₂
Now it has a gentler and sadder look — a something of philosophic patience. ₃
Yet a something of consciousness remained to me
and it appeared to my fading fancy that
I was some time whirling in the air ₄
sources —
- Chapters of College Romance by “E. S. O’Brien, Esq. A.M.” (pseudonym of Issac Butt (1813-79)), Chapter VI. — “The Bribed Scholar, Part II,” in The Dublin University Magazine 8:46 (October 1836) : 435-447 (443) / more
- Matthew Seton, “Recent Shakesperian Revivals, I. — Hamlet and Macbeth, at the Lyceum,” New Monthly Magazine 11:62 (February 1877) : 175-183 (178) / more
- ex “Occasional Notes. Dullness in Washington. Marshal Douglass and his Assailants — ‘A Cutaneous Eruption’ — The Grand Fact of the Peaceable Inauguration — Mr. Blaine’s Latest Demonstration — The Course of the New Administration — Magnanimous but Risky.” From our special Correspondent, Washington, Monday, March 19, 1877. The New-York Times (Saturday, March 24, 1877) : 4 / more
evidently authored by Grace Greenwood (pseudonym of Sara Jane Lippincott (1823-1904)); concerns Frederick Douglass his appointment as U.S. Marshal of the District of Columbia, by President Rutherford Hayes
- The Rev. Hobart Caunter, “The Drop Scene” in Atkinson’s Casket; or Gems of Literature, Wit and Sentiment. 9:7 (Philadelphia; July 1834) : 311-313 / more
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