Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 [electronic resource] : being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school . righteous vengeance Ah see where Jephthah comes. Wilt thou entreat for me I cannot meet his eye. Bethulah. Retire with me, and let our daughters pleadThy moving cause their eloquence will gain,An easy pardon from thy generous brother (Exit Bethulah ayid Mahalah.)(Enter Jephthah.) Elizabeth. Father I bring an humble suppliantWho entreats thy pardon for once guilty parentsWho sorrowing, for all the wrongs they brought on theeImplores through us forgiveness a
Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 [electronic resource] : being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school . righteous vengeance Ah see where Jephthah comes. Wilt thou entreat for me I cannot meet his eye. Bethulah. Retire with me, and let our daughters pleadThy moving cause their eloquence will gain,An easy pardon from thy generous brother (Exit Bethulah ayid Mahalah.)(Enter Jephthah.) Elizabeth. Father I bring an humble suppliantWho entreats thy pardon for once guilty parentsWho sorrowing, for all the wrongs they brought on theeImplores through us forgiveness and protection. Jephthah. My protection ?Who has sunk so low as to sue for Jephthahs favorAn outcast wanderer, without power or fortune. Tirzah. One who while living should have called thee brotherDying bequeathd his orphan to thy careBidding thee recollect the infant friendshipWhich warmd your hearts, eer envy and ambitionCrept in and blasted every noble feeling. Jephthah. And is Athobat dead, my once lovd brotherHis cruel treatment I 11 no more rememberBut view him only as the dear companionThe much lovd partner of my infant sports. Pl. XXIV. — The Rose of Sharon, Pupil about 1814From a miniature paiuted by Dickinson Elizabeth Hannali Canfield, daughter of Judson Canfield and Mabel Ruggles, of Sharon,Conn, She married Frederick Augustus Talhnadge, son of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge Shewas called • The Rose of Sharon by the law students, from her beauty and her birthplace,her sister Julia receiving tlie title of -Tlie Lily of the Valley, from her fair skin and wantof color. The two sons of Gov. Edward Telfair, of Georgia, wlio attended the law school, wereiu love witli her, — Thomas and Alexander. The latter offered himself and was refused. Heafterwards walked the twenty miles from Litchfield to Sharon only to gaze at the light in herwindow and walk back again.
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