If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.