Browsing named entities in Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley). You can also browse the collection for Phillis or search for Phillis in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Fair but Fierce. (search)
ung ladies, when you go reluctantly to your calisthenics, and when you turn a deaf ear to the teacher who begs that you will not neglect the cultivation of the biceps flexor cubiti and the deltoid muscles, remember that the time may come when you will regret your negligence — when, in fact, and not to put too fine a point upon it, you may desire to assault somebody in pantaloons, and may yet be afraid to do it. See what hard training — constant practice, we suppose upon Topsey and Dinah and Phillis — has done for Miss Slidell! Why, the moment she gets into her agony, she proceeds as naturally to strike somebody, as if she had been striking somebody all her life. See her squaring off — no, that is vulgar — see her going through the preliminary gesticulations before poor Fairfax! It is a subject for a picture. It should be put upon canvas, and hung up in the Confederate Capitol--when there is one. Miss Slidell, with flashing orbs and tangled hair and crimson cheek and curling co