James Russell Lowell: A Biography, المجلد 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1901 |
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... seen something of the great world abroad , and he stood in an amiable relation to that self - centred , comfortable world of New England which held to the established order , even though there had begun within it already the agi- tation ...
... seen something of the great world abroad , and he stood in an amiable relation to that self - centred , comfortable world of New England which held to the established order , even though there had begun within it already the agi- tation ...
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... seen , before he went to college , and he continued to find his delight in books . " A college training , " he once said , " is an excellent thing ; but after all , the better part of every man's education is that which he gives him ...
... seen , before he went to college , and he continued to find his delight in books . " A college training , " he once said , " is an excellent thing ; but after all , the better part of every man's education is that which he gives him ...
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... seen , and allowed himself to be indiffer- . ent to the routine imposed by college regulations . There are always men in college who undertake to be independent while living in it ; sometimes the instinct is wise , sometimes it is ...
... seen , and allowed himself to be indiffer- . ent to the routine imposed by college regulations . There are always men in college who undertake to be independent while living in it ; sometimes the instinct is wise , sometimes it is ...
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... might easily have made him wince in later years ; but the spontaneity of his nature , which was always seen in the unguardedness of his familiar writing and his conversation , had in these days the added FIRST VENTURES 71.
... might easily have made him wince in later years ; but the spontaneity of his nature , which was always seen in the unguardedness of his familiar writing and his conversation , had in these days the added FIRST VENTURES 71.
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... seen , For the meek suffering love of poor Undine . She is truly a glorious girl with her spirit eyes . On the mantel is a moss rose she gave me and which when it withers I shall enshrine in my Homer . This morning I drove her up to Wal ...
... seen , For the meek suffering love of poor Undine . She is truly a glorious girl with her spirit eyes . On the mantel is a moss rose she gave me and which when it withers I shall enshrine in my Homer . This morning I drove her up to Wal ...
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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.