...moonlight overlaid." PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, FROM KITTEBV BRIDGE. CHAPTER X. AT KITTERY POINT, MAINE. "We have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners...forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain M,ll their old estates." LONGFELLOW. LOTJIS XV. said to Bonret, the financier, " You are indeed a singular...

...GULIAN C. VERPLANCK. " We have no title-deed to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier date From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." HW LONGFELLOW. THE early English settlements, commenced along the shore of Massachusetts Bay, — as...

...labouring in the walks of commerce above French graves. It is left for the historical student to remember " We have no title-deeds to house or lands, Owners and...hands And hold in mortmain still their old estates." Now let my readers accompany me to that narrow neck of land which connects New Brunswick with Nova...

...seeing Alcott's Fruitlands; she felt its "ghost of the Past" and found herself reciting Longfellow: We have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners and...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates. 16 Women were still well placed in the movement. In Connecticut, for instance, preservation emanated...

...not the first to make poetic use of the term. In "Haunted houses," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: "Owners and occupants of earlier dates / From graves...hands, / And hold in mortmain still their old estates." In Clarel, Mortmain is both representative and harbinger of death, as his reaction to the mountains...

...not conscious had ever lingered in my mind, nor do I remember now where I have ever met with them. "We have no title-deeds to house or lands. Owners...hands And hold in mortmain still their old estates." Shades of Erebus! How many of those hapless landlords of Chantilly might take it into their heads to...

...equally brief, our possession of the earth as frail ; our title to it indeed less ancient than theirs : " We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." But there is no time to moralize at present ; we have other business on our hands. It could scarcely...

...With feet that make no sound upon thefloors. "The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear, He but perceives what...while unto me All that has been is visible and clear." Ascending the stairs we first enter the mother's room, which is over the parlor. There are many curious...

...MONTGOMERIE BANKING. A. SHETLAND STORY. CHAPTER I. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. — LOXOKKLLOW. A WARH, bright, mirthful July morning. Early morning we Southerners would say it was...

...of the happy hunting-grounds ? Who can say? THE stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; He but perceives what...while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. SOMETHING OF A SURPRISE. BY CAREIE D. BBKBB. MR. MORETON had always been considered eccentric; but...