Southern Literary Messenger Volume 19 by James E Heath
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Author: James E Heath
Page Count: 580 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130287158
Download Link: Southern Literary Messenger Volume 19
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...(we wonder who issued his patent of nobility, ) is disconsolate--for "his soul grew white to image back her (!anthe's) form," and "she was the very first that made him see the young Hind in his dreams." We give up all hope of ascertaining what is meant by this, and leave the passage to more acute commentators for explanation. While Julian thus mopes in solitude, Ianthe in the distant land consoles herself with training up a pair of doves, and succeeds in bringing one of them to a degree of intelligence which puts all learned pigs and Monsieur Donetti's dogs and monkeys to shame. One day (it must have been Valentine's Day) she bethought herself of sending the dove with a billet-doux to Julian, and accordingly she "wrote on white satin withherown heart's blood," and having tied the amorous effusion to the wing of the messenger, (a sort of southern literary messenger, ) "she bade it fly to her dear Julian's bower." This astonishing performance is accomplished before you could say Jack Robinson--indeed "quickern lightnin"--Count Julian reads the letter and replies "by return of post," "on paper of the purest silk." Hide your diminished heads, De la Rue, Rhoads & Son. Moinier and the rest of you, the proper material for lovers' correspondence is not cream-laid or damask-laid, but silk and satin of the purest texture! The second Lustrum discloses Lamorah "beneath a Jupiterian oak"--and Count Ju- lian, having indued the garments of Yanassa, goes to him and represents himself as Yanassa's ghost. Lamorah and he embark in a canoe, and after a prosperous voyage arrive at an island abounding in pine trees, swans and muscodines. Here they find Ianthe, who "Edened all the isle&quo...
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