JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A BIOGRAPHY |
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... tion in the first term of his senior year he took part in a conference bearing the labored title : " Ancient Epics , considered as Pictures of Manners , as Proofs of Genius , or as Sources of Entertainment , " but both in his sophomore ...
... tion in the first term of his senior year he took part in a conference bearing the labored title : " Ancient Epics , considered as Pictures of Manners , as Proofs of Genius , or as Sources of Entertainment , " but both in his sophomore ...
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... tion . " You must excuse me if this be not a very long or entertaining epistle , as I am writing from my brother's office ( with a very bad pen ) in a great hurry . I shall not go to Canada and shall not start for P [ ortsmouth ] ...
... tion . " You must excuse me if this be not a very long or entertaining epistle , as I am writing from my brother's office ( with a very bad pen ) in a great hurry . I shall not go to Canada and shall not start for P [ ortsmouth ] ...
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HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER. were Rufus King , who later attained a leading posi- tion in the bar of Cincinnati , and wrote " Ohio " in the American Commonwealths series ; George Warren Lippitt , afterward for a long time secre- tary of ...
HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER. were Rufus King , who later attained a leading posi- tion in the bar of Cincinnati , and wrote " Ohio " in the American Commonwealths series ; George Warren Lippitt , afterward for a long time secre- tary of ...
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... tion , " I have chosen what reading I pleased and what friends I pleased , sometimes scholars and sometimes not . • July 12 . ― ex- For the Campbell I trust I need n't let my thanks stare me in the face , so I shall leave you to put ...
... tion , " I have chosen what reading I pleased and what friends I pleased , sometimes scholars and sometimes not . • July 12 . ― ex- For the Campbell I trust I need n't let my thanks stare me in the face , so I shall leave you to put ...
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... tion and epilogue : " Oh thou ! to whom , where'er my footstep roam , My restless soul would spread its pinions home , Reality ! more fair than any seeming E'er blest the fancy of an angel's dreaming , - Be thou my muse , in whose blue ...
... tion and epilogue : " Oh thou ! to whom , where'er my footstep roam , My restless soul would spread its pinions home , Reality ! more fair than any seeming E'er blest the fancy of an angel's dreaming , - Be thou my muse , in whose blue ...
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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.