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CONTENTS.

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CONTENTS.

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  • PROSE WORKS.

  • Pencillings by the Way 1

  • Letters from under a Bridge 217

  • Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil — Part I. —

  • High Life in Europe —

  • Leaves from the Heart-book of Ernest Clay 251

  • The Marquis in Petticoats 269

  • Beauty and the Beast, or the handsome Mrs Titton
    and her plain Husband 272

  • Brown's Day with the Mimpsons 275

  • Mr. and Mrs. Follett, or the Danger of meddling
    with Married People 278

  • The Countess Nyschriem, and the handsome Artist 281

  • My One Adventure as a Brigand 283

  • Wigwam versus Almack's 285

  • Miss Jones's Son 294

  • Lady Rachel 298

  • The Phantom Head upon the Table 300

  • Getting to Windward 306

  • The Wife bequeathed and resumed 310

  • A Revelation of a Previous Life 313

  • American Life —

  • Count Pott's Strategy 316

  • The Female Wand 318

  • Two Buckets in a Well 323

  • Light Vervain 326

  • Nora Mehidy, or the strange Road to the Heart of
    Mr. Hypolet Leathers 330

  • The Pharisee and the Barber 332

  • Mrs. Passable Troot 335

  • The Spirit Love of “lone S — ” 336

  • Mabel Wynne 339

  • The Ghost-ball at Congress Hall 342

  • Born to love Pigs and Chickens 345

  • The Widow by Brevet 348

  • Those Ungrateful Blidgimses 352

  • Dashes at Life — Part II. —

  • Inklings of Adventure —

  • Pedlar Karl 361

  • Niagara — Lake Ontario — The St. Lawrence 366

  • The Cherokee's Threat 372

  • F. Smith 377

  • Edith Linsey 383

  • Scenes of Fear 404

  • Incidents on the Hudson 410

  • The Gipsy of Sardis 412

  • Tom Fane and I 429

  • Larks in Vacation 433

  • A Log in the Archipelago 441

  • The Revenge of the Signor Basil 445

  • Love and Diplomacy 454

  • The Madhouse of Palermo 457

  • Minute Philosophies 460

  • Loiterings of Travel —

  • Lady Ravelgold 466

  • Paletto's Bride 474

  • Violanta Cesarini 479

  • Pasquali, the Tailor of Venice 486

  • The Bandit of Austria 489

  • Oonder-Hoofden, or the Undercliff 501

  • The Picker and Piler 504

  • Kate Crediford 507

  • Flirtation and Fox-Chasing 509

  • The Poet and the Mandarin 512

  • Meena Dimity, or why Mr Brown Crash took the
    Tour 516

  • The Power of an “Injured Look” 518

  • Beware of Dogs and Waltzing 521

  • The Inlet of Peach-Blossoms 524

  • The Belle of the Belfry, or the daring Lover 528

  • Passages from an Epistolary Journal kept on a Visit
    to England 530

  • My Adventures at the Tournament 543

  • Sketches of Travel 549

  • The four Rivers — the Hudson — the Mohawk — the
    Chenango — the Susquehannah 574

  • Dashes at Life — Part III. —

  • Ephemera 577

  • [Consisting of a collection of the “jottings down”
    contributed to the New Mirror and other papers,
    deemed worth preserving as daguerreotypes of
    the present — as records of matters as they fly.]

  • Lecture on Fashion 799

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  • POETICAL WORKS.

  • Sacred Poems —

  • The Healing of the Daughter of Jairus 817

  • The Leper 818

  • David's Grief for his Child 819

  • The Sacrfice of Abraham 820

  • The Shunamite 820

  • Jephthah's Daughter 821

  • Absalom 822

  • Christ's Entrance into Jerusalem 823

  • Baptism of Christ 823

  • Scene in Gethsemane 824

  • The Widow of Nain 824

  • Hagar in the Wilderness 824

  • Rizpah with her Sons, the Day before they were
    hanged on Gibeah 825

  • Lazarus and Mary 826

  • Thoughts while making the Grave of a new-born
    Child 827

  • On the Departure of Rev. Mr. White from his
    Parish 827

  • Birth-Day Verses 828

  • To my Mother from the Apennines 828

  • Lines on leaving Europe 829

  • A true Incident 829

  • The Mother to her Child 830

  • Thirty-Five 830

  • A Thought over a Cradle 830

  • Contemplation 830

  • On the Death of a Missionary 831

  • On the Picture of a “Child tired of Play” 831

  • A Child's first Impression of a Star 831

  • On Witnessing a Baptism 831

  • Revery at Glenmary 832

  • The Belfry Pigeon 832

  • The Sabbath 832

  • Dedication Hymn 832

  • Poems of Passion —

  • The dying Alchymist 833

  • Parrhasius 834

  • The Scholar of Thebet Ben Khorat 835

  • The Wife's Appeal 837

  • Melanie 838

  • Lord Ivon and his Daughter 841

  • To Ermengarde 844

  • The Pity of the Park Fountain 845

  • “Chamber Scene” 845

  • To a Stolen Ring 845

  • To her who has Hopes for me 845

  • The Death of Harrison 846

  • “She was not there” 846

  • Fail me not thou! 846

  • Spirit-Whispers 846

  • To M — , from Abroad 847

  • Sunrise Thoughts at the Close of a Ball 847

  • To a Face beloved 847

  • Unseen Spirits 847

  • Better Moments 847

  • The Annoyer 848

  • Andre's Request to Washington 848

  • Dawn 848

  • The Lady Jane, a Novel in Rhyme 849

  • Miscellaneous Poems —

  • An Apology 861

  • To Helen in a Huff 862

  • City Lyrics 862

  • To the Lady in the Chemisette with black Buttons 862

  • To the Lady in the white Dress 863

  • The white Chip-Hat 863

  • “You know if it was you” 863

  • Love in a Cottage 864

  • The Declaration 864

  • Tortesa, the Usurer 865

  • Bianca Visconti, or the Heart overtasked 883

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