Author: Mary Howard Schoolcraft
Cites
- Joseph Addison (1)
- IN: The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina (1860) Anti-Tom Novel, American
EPIGRAPH: "Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heav'n,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?"
FROM: Cato, (1712), Play, UK
- Samuel Butler (1)
- IN: The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina (1860) Anti-Tom Novel, American
EPIGRAPH: "For he was of that stubborn crew
Of errant saints, whom all men grant
To be the true Church Militant;
Such as do build their faith upon
The holy text of pike and gun;
Decide all controversies by
Infallible artillery."
FROM: Hudibras, (1694), Poem, UK