James Russell Lowell: A Biography, المجلد 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1901 |
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... nature of great simplicity and of unquestioning faith . His son once wrote of him : " Nothing could shake my beloved and honored father's trust in God and his sincere piety ; " and his work as pastor of the West Church in Boston , to ...
... nature of great simplicity and of unquestioning faith . His son once wrote of him : " Nothing could shake my beloved and honored father's trust in God and his sincere piety ; " and his work as pastor of the West Church in Boston , to ...
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... natural gift of speech , but until one read by himself some sermon to which he had listened with delight , he would scarcely be aware that the spell lay in the pure tones of the voice that uttered it.1 Above all , he was the parson ...
... natural gift of speech , but until one read by himself some sermon to which he had listened with delight , he would scarcely be aware that the spell lay in the pure tones of the voice that uttered it.1 Above all , he was the parson ...
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... nature . From the sheltered nook of Elmwood , he looked out on a restless , questioning world , but his own part seemed to be marked out for him . He had his parish , with a thousand petty disorders to rectify ; he had his books , which ...
... nature . From the sheltered nook of Elmwood , he looked out on a restless , questioning world , but his own part seemed to be marked out for him . He had his parish , with a thousand petty disorders to rectify ; he had his books , which ...
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... nature may easily be reckoned as the brooding place of fancies which lived again in the poetic genius of her son . She had been bred in the Epis- copal Church , and that may possibly have had its influence in the determination of her ...
... nature may easily be reckoned as the brooding place of fancies which lived again in the poetic genius of her son . She had been bred in the Epis- copal Church , and that may possibly have had its influence in the determination of her ...
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... nature , and one profoundly interested in great subjects of racial and philosophical moment , but not infre- quently are exceedingly felicitous in expression . 66 2 In a lecture on Spenser , given in 1856 , Lowell said , The Faery ...
... nature , and one profoundly interested in great subjects of racial and philosophical moment , but not infre- quently are exceedingly felicitous in expression . 66 2 In a lecture on Spenser , given in 1856 , Lowell said , The Faery ...
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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.