JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A BIOGRAPHY |
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... hope to die . I should n't be happy anywhere else ; " and at Elmwood he died , Wednes- day , 12 August , 1891 . The place was endeared to him by a thousand memories , and he liked it none the less for the his- toric associations , which ...
... hope to die . I should n't be happy anywhere else ; " and at Elmwood he died , Wednes- day , 12 August , 1891 . The place was endeared to him by a thousand memories , and he liked it none the less for the his- toric associations , which ...
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... hope you will forget his ill deserts as faith- fully as he remembers how much he owes you . " It was at the hands of Mr. Wells that Lowell received that severe drilling in Latin which was one of the traditions of English scholarship ...
... hope you will forget his ill deserts as faith- fully as he remembers how much he owes you . " It was at the hands of Mr. Wells that Lowell received that severe drilling in Latin which was one of the traditions of English scholarship ...
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... and which I there- fore humbly opine to have been the disease of 1 Mr. Shackford did not live to continue his friendship with Lowell . He died in 1842 . Achilles . . . . I hope you'll be amused 34 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
... and which I there- fore humbly opine to have been the disease of 1 Mr. Shackford did not live to continue his friendship with Lowell . He died in 1842 . Achilles . . . . I hope you'll be amused 34 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
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HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER. Achilles . . . . I hope you'll be amused with this epistle ( if perchance you are able to read it ) . But the fact is I can't write anything serious to save my life . Answer this the very day you get it ...
HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER. Achilles . . . . I hope you'll be amused with this epistle ( if perchance you are able to read it ) . But the fact is I can't write anything serious to save my life . Answer this the very day you get it ...
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... hope you will not think that I say all this because I am ashamed to treat you coldly , or not to answer you . I am sure of one thing , that I have no such opinion of you . Your letter , Shack , was a delight to me ( though I am not ...
... hope you will not think that I say all this because I am ashamed to treat you coldly , or not to answer you . I am sure of one thing , that I have no such opinion of you . Your letter , Shack , was a delight to me ( though I am not ...
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الصفحة 45 - Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. What crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent...
الصفحة 215 - Rest unto our souls." —Rest unto our souls! — 'tis all we want, — the end of all our wishes and pursuits : give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth...
الصفحة 26 - A college training is an excellent thing ; but, after all, the better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself, and it is for this that a good library should furnish the opportunity and the means.
الصفحة 267 - I am the first poet who has endeavored to express the American Idea, and I shall be popular by and by. Only I suppose I must be dead first. But I do not want anything more than I have.
الصفحة 371 - Longfellow as Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Belles Lettres in Harvard College.
الصفحة 3 - My house at Cambridge being surrounded by about four thousand people, in compliance with their command, I sign my name.
الصفحة 264 - The success of my experiment soon began not only to astonish me, but to make me feel the responsibility of knowing that I held in my hand a weapon instead of the mere fencing-stick I had supposed.
الصفحة 386 - For remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest.
الصفحة 407 - PM, and rose at eight. The time occupied was longer by about four hours and thirty minutes than I am in the habit of consuming in that kind of occupation, but it was the richest time intellectually by all odds that I have ever had. Leaving myself and
الصفحة 14 - Dear were my walks, too, gathering fragrant store Of Mother Nature's simple-minded lore : I learned all weather-signs of day or night ; No bird but I could name him by his flight, No distant tree but by his shape was known, Or, near at hand, by leaf or bark alone.