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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Niobe and Latona. (search)
Niobe and Latona. we remember that when we were the reporter of a respectable country newspape can vouch for, since he compares the South to Niobe and the North to Latona, and since he also caldeep. Now, why he should compare the South to Niobe, we do not precisely comprehend, unless it is ess he expects us to shoot him and the rest of Niobe's progeny. But when Mr. McMahon is well-mount is not so much that we have conspired against Niobe's babies, as that we have banks. Also insuranerty; nor would he have attempted to show that Niobe is poor because she has had a monopoly of two nd weaving it? If Latona has been indebted to Niobe for tobacco, we ask in the name of Justitia — York, but, alas! in New York never paid for? Niobe owes us millions upon millions, but how much do we owe Niobe, O picturesque and beautiful McMahon! If the facts could be arrived at, we should bays McMahon, the annual dowry which the South (Niobe) cast at her (Latona's) feet. He then goes on
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 78 (search)
Destruction was complete, and the ruins were more touchingly desolate amid the mangled victims of war's ruthlessness, who lay on the hillside mourning the departure of friends with whom they had bravely fought. Would that such pictures could be sealed up in the book of memory, never to be opened to the human heart. Many a manly fellow has told me since that all human sorrow seemed condensed into that one woeful parting. If it were ever manful to shed tears, men might then have wept like Niobe. Let us draw the veil to hide the wounds more agonizing than rude weapon ever rent. Hundreds — I don't know how many — were left upon the green sward and in our too limited hospitals, to wait the cold charities of bitter enemies. The column and all that might train had now been swallowed in the maw of the dreary forest. It swept onward, onward, fast and furious like an avalanche. Every hour of silence behind was ominous, but hours were precious to us. Pioneer bands were rushing along
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
80 380 ShipGertrudeSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterHussey & MurrayNew York800 381 BarkNashuaSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterJ. H. PearsonBoston200 382 BarkHannah ThorntonJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisJ. A. McGawBoston385 383 BarkKeplerJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisParsons & HoughBoston425 384 BarkSherwoodJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisWilliam LincolnBoston438 385 Sch.Joshua HamblenJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisThomas HopkinsChatham70 386 ShipHelen McGawJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisJ. A. McGawBoston590 387 ShipNiobeP. Curtis'sP. CurtisGeorge PrattBoston712 388 ShipIndependenceP. Curtis'sP. CurtisA. HemenwayBoston864 389 ShipR. C. WinthropP. Curtis'sP. CurtisB. BangsBoston802 390 ShipHorsburghT. Magoun'sHayden & CudworthD. C. BaconBoston577 391 ShipAustissT. Magoun'sHayden & CudworthWetmore & Co.New York621 392 ShipAmeliaT. Magoun'sH. EwellJ. WellsmanCharleston, S. C.572 393 ShipCrusaderT. Magoun'sH. EwellW. W. GoddardBoston600 394 ShipGeorgiaJ. Stetson'sJ. StetsonJ. G. MillsSavannah, Geo.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
he inflated style of the creature Out of whose mouth there issues a blast. See drum. The ossea tibia was made of the leg-bone of a crane. Alcides loquitur:— The Alexandrians are especially skillful with the flute; and not only in those kinds called girl's flutes and boy's flutes, but also in men's flutes, which are also called perfect and super-perfect; and also in those which are called harp-flutes, and fingerflutes. For the flutes called elymi, which Sophocles mentions in his Niobe, and in his Drummers, we do not understand to be anything but the common Phrygian flute. And these, too, the Alexandrians are very skillful in. They are also acquainted with the flute with two holes, and also with the intermediate flutes, and with those called hypotreti, or bored underneath. We know of some that are called half-bored, which Anacreon mentions:— What lust has now seized thus upon your mind, To wish to dance to tender half-bored flutes? And these flutes are smaller tha
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Ninth: Emancipation of the African race. (search)
sacrifice. The indications of Providence are too plain to be mistaken. No unknown portion of the globe has been so thoroughly explored during the present century. No nation has ever been so ready to receive Christianity and the arts of peace. No one can more readily be brought into the family of nations. No country ever had so many missionaries ready to carry to a benighted continent commerce, agriculture, manufactures, education, and the light of everlasting truths. All hail, then, Niobe of the nations! Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling; . . . thou shalt no more drink it again. Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people; and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. Ye shall be redeemed without money. Thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband, .
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xvi. (search)
sacrifice. The indications of Providence are too plain to be mistaken. No unknown portion of the globe has been so thoroughly explored during the present century. No nation has ever been so ready to receive Christianity and the arts of peace. No one can more readily be brought into the family of nations. No country ever had so many missionaries ready to carry to a benighted continent commerce, agriculture, manufactures, education, and the light of everlasting truths. All hail, then, Niobe of the nations! Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling; . . . thou shalt no more drink it again. Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people; and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. Ye shall be redeemed without money. Thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband, .
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
inscriptions in Greek (see post, letter of March 1, 1839), which Sumner sent to Lord Leicester, one of which was the following:— oi(/hper *nio/bhs moi/rh toih/de kai\ h(mi=n e)stin o)izuroi=s kai\ maka/ressin dmou= h(mei=s ga\r qa/nomen *xantroi=o be/lessi dame/ntes, ka)n li/qw| a)qana/tous au)to\s e)/qhke pa/lin. It is thus translated by Mr. Muirhead, the compiler of the ‘Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks,’ p. 37:— Happy at once and miserable, we Seem to partake the fate of Niobe; For, perishing by Chantrey's dart, we die, And in his marble live immortally.<] To Professor Simon Greenleaf, Cambridge. Holkham House, Nov. 2, 1888. My dear Greenleaf,—Which is the older of the two,—--you or I? There cannot be much disparity of age, I feel; for you write so freshly as to respond to all the little of youth there is left in me, or I have grown so grave as to be climbing prematurely to the dignity of your years. But time has moved faster with me, since I left y
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), V. Conversations in Boston. (search)
mortality, as the look of aspiration in the countenance of a Magdalen. It is quite beyond the power of my memory to recall all the bright utterances of Margaret, in these conversations on Sculpture. It was a favorite subject with her. Then came two or three conversations on Painting, in which it seemed to be conceded that color expressed passion, whilst sculpture more severely expressed thought: yet painting did not exclude the expression of thought, or sculpture that of feeling,—witness Niobe,—but it must be an universal feeling, like the maternal sentiment. March 22, 1841.—The question of the day was, What is life? Let us define, each in turn, our idea of living. Margaret did not believe we had, any of us, a distinct idea of life. A. S. thought so great a question ought to be given for a written definition. No, said Margaret, that is of no use. When we go away to think of anything, we never do think. We all talk of life. We all have some thought now. Let us<
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix B. (search)
ken2840Sunk, Dec. 6, 1863. Yazoo Class. 20 single-turret vessels:1 to 2640 Casco (Hero)614 Chimo (Piscataqua）614 Cohoes614Broken up, 1874. Etlah614 Klamath614Sold, 1874. Koka614Broken up, 1874. Modoc614Broken up, 1874. Napa614Broken up, 1874. Naubuc (Minnetonka)614Broken up, 1874. Nausett614Broken up, 1874. Shawnee614 Shiloh (Iris）614Sold, 1874. Squando (Algoma)614Broken up, 1874. Suncook614Broken up, 1874. Tunxis (Otsego）614Broken up, 1874. Umpqua614Sold. 1874; N. O. Wassuc614Broken up, 1874. Waxsaw (Niobe）Broken up, 1874. YazooSold 1874. YumaSold, 1874. 2 single-turret vessels:2479 Marietta2479Sold, 1873. Sandusky2479Sold, 1873. 3 single-turret vessels:2 to 7 Neosho (Osceola )2523Sold, 1873. Osage2523Sunk, 1865. Ozark7578Sold, 1865. 2 casemate vessels:3 to 5 Chillicothe3203Sold 1865. Tuscumbia5565Sold, 1868. Miscellaneous. Name.Guns.Tonnage.Remarks. Galena6738 Indianola2442Captured in 1863. Keokuk2677Sunk in 1863. Monitor2776Sunk in
The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
eaven of his hopes! Nothing could be more felicitous than to dance into these benefits and joys in "the procession of the Star-spangled Banner, borne onward to the songs of liberty!" "Who would mourn?" There are those who would indeed mourn, and would "not be comforted."The people of Virginia would be the mourners. They would be either exiled or enslaved, while the ruthless invaders would fill their homes, possess their fields, and reap the wealth of their mines. Virginia, worse than Niobe, would not be childless, but would be condemned to look upon her children humiliated, degraded, and enslaved, while the stranger and enemy would enter upon all they possessed. But Bancroft will never put that picture in his History of the United States. It believes, he will live only to wind up his work with the end of the misdirected and perverted Government he eulogizes. His countrymen will not revel in the hundred halls of Virginia, and drag from her bowels the wealth he portrays.
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