American Bookmen: Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, of Certain Writers of the Nineteenth CenturyDodd, Mead, 1898 - Всего страниц: 295 |
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appeared Artemus Ward AUTOGRAPH biographer Boston brought Bryant called Cambridge Clemm Concord Cooper Cooperstown Daguerreotype death died Drake early EDGAR ALLAN POE editor Emerson England English engraving Europe fame father friends gave George William Curtis Halleck Harvard Harvard College Hawthorne Hawthorne's Holmes honour Irving Irving's Jack Downing journal Knickerbocker later Leaves of Grass lectures less LIBRARY literary live Longfellow look Lowell Lowell's married mother Motley never once Parkman person Poe's poems poet poetical poetry portrait Prescott printed prose published reader REDUCED FAC-SIMILE Richmond SARAH HELEN WHITMAN Seba Smith soon spirit story success tell Thanatopsis things Thoreau thought tion to-day told took town truth UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA verses volume Walt Whitman Washington Washington Irving Whittier wife Willis Willis's words writing written wrote York young youth
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Стр. 217 - I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.
Стр. 182 - Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philosophymaker; he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit.
Стр. 5 - Our intention is simply to instruct the young, reform the old, correct the town, and castigate the age; this is an arduous task, and therefore we undertake it with confidence.
Стр. 48 - Though forced to drudge for the dregs of men, And scrawl strange words with the barbarous pen, And mingle among the jostling crowd, Where the sons of strife are subtle and loud...
Стр. 84 - During these fits of absolute unconsciousness, I drank — God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink, rather than the drink to the insanity.
Стр. 173 - Took the largest part of me: For this losing is true dying; This is lordly man's down-lying, This his slow but sure reclining, Star by star his world resigning.
Стр. 26 - Gentleman, simmer it well, Sweeten just to your own private liking, then strain, That only the finest and clearest remain, Let it stand out of doors till a soul it receives From the warm lazy sun loitering down through green leaves, And you '11 find a choice nature, not wholly deserving A name either English or Yankee, — just Irving.
Стр. 224 - I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme. The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine. I seek less to state or display any theme or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of the theme or thought — there to pursue your own flight.
Стр. 46 - The Embargo ; or, Sketches of the Times, A Satire ; by a Youth of Thirteen.
Стр. 108 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.