James Russell Lowell: A Biography, المجلد 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1901 |
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... Miss Charlotte P. Briggs , daughter of the late Charles F. Briggs , the warm friend of Lowell in his early literary life ; to Mrs. Sydney Howard Gay , who sent me not only letters , but the original manuscript of Lowell's contributions ...
... Miss Charlotte P. Briggs , daughter of the late Charles F. Briggs , the warm friend of Lowell in his early literary life ; to Mrs. Sydney Howard Gay , who sent me not only letters , but the original manuscript of Lowell's contributions ...
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... miss any exercises unexcused , you shall have Bryant's My- thology , ' or any book of equal value , unless it is one I may specially want . 6 My dear child , I wish you only to be faithful to yourself . You can easily be a fine scholar ...
... miss any exercises unexcused , you shall have Bryant's My- thology , ' or any book of equal value , unless it is one I may specially want . 6 My dear child , I wish you only to be faithful to yourself . You can easily be a fine scholar ...
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... Miss being the only being I have actually sympathized with since I have been in Concord has made me feel like a fool . I must go down and see Emerson , and if he does n't make me feel more like a fool it won't be for want of sympathy in ...
... Miss being the only being I have actually sympathized with since I have been in Concord has made me feel like a fool . I must go down and see Emerson , and if he does n't make me feel more like a fool it won't be for want of sympathy in ...
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... Miss B , O ! For a thousand girls Have hair that curls , And a sort of expressive face , O ! But it is n't the hair - Nor the genteel air — " T is the heart that looks bright and gives grace , O ! Ay , lasses are many Without e'en a ...
... Miss B , O ! For a thousand girls Have hair that curls , And a sort of expressive face , O ! But it is n't the hair - Nor the genteel air — " T is the heart that looks bright and gives grace , O ! Ay , lasses are many Without e'en a ...
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... Miss B.'s name , for it ran off the end of my pen so that it must be better than I can make it . Why , I like it , I do . There is n't any- thing good in it either , except in the last passage . It has really put me in good spirits ...
... Miss B.'s name , for it ran off the end of my pen so that it must be better than I can make it . Why , I like it , I do . There is n't any- thing good in it either , except in the last passage . It has really put me in good spirits ...
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الصفحة 49 - 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 30 - 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 184 - ... come up to my ear instead of the happy songs of the husbandmen reaping and binding the sheaves of light — yet these, too, I hear not seldom. Then I feel how great is the office of Poet, could I but even dare to hope to fill it. Then it seems as if my heart would break in pouring out one glorious song that should be the gospel of Reform, full of consolation and strength to the oppressed, yet falling gently and restoringly as dew on the withered youth-flowers of the oppressor. That way my madness...
الصفحة 17 - 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. This learning won by loving looks I hived As sweeter lore than all from books derived.
الصفحة 375 - Longfellow as Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Belles Lettres in Harvard College.
الصفحة 5 - 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 261 - I am sorry that I began by making him such a detestable speller. There is no fun in bad spelling of itself, but only where the misspelling suggests something else which is droll per se. You see I am getting him out of it gradually. I mean to altogether. Parson Wilbur is about to propose a subscription for fitting him for college, and has already commenced his education.