Short Studies of American AuthorsLee & Shepard, 1880 - 58 Seiten |
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1.50 YOUNG FOLKS admirable Ameri American AMERICAN AUTHORS Aroostook artistic Atlantic authorship Baudelaire beautiful Bits of Travel Boston cadence career ceeded Char character cosmopolitan criticism death delineation diary Draxy Emerson England Eulalie became eyes fame of Thoreau feel no wrong French Poets fruit of fruits genius hand HARVARD COLLEGE Hawthorne Hawthorne's Helen Henry James heroine Hetty's Strange History Howells husband imagination impression instance James's labor Lady LaFarge less Ligeia literary art literature Madame Bovary mass Massachusetts melody Merrimack Rivers moral nature never New-England Magazine nine hundred volumes noble novel OLDPORT paper Peccavimus perhaps person Poe's poet's Poets and Novelists popular prose published Puritan re-appear remember ROMANCE Saxe Holm Scarlet Letter seems shanty sketches society stories sweet thee thine thing thor Thoreau's manuscript thou thought tion touched trace Turgénieff vate verses voice Walden wealth wholesome woman write
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Seite 20 - His misery is a dead weight upon the nimbleness of one's quill ; I tried to forget it — to drink toddy without any care — to write a merry sonnet — it won't do — he talked with bitches, he drank with blackguards; he was miserable. We can see horribly clear, in the works of such a man, his whole life, as if we were God's spies.
Seite 46 - LIKE a blind spinner in the sun, I tread my days; I know that all the threads will run Appointed ways; I know each day will bring its task, And, being blind, no more I ask. I do not know the use or name Of that I spin: I only know that some one came, And laid within My hand the thread, and said, " Since you Are blind, but one thing you can do.
Seite 14 - Ligeia! Ligeia! My beautiful one! Whose harshest idea Will to melody run, O! is it thy will On the breezes to toss? Or, capriciously still, Like the lone Albatross, Incumbent on night (As she on the air) To keep watch with delight On the harmony there?
Seite 31 - For a year or two past, my publisher, falsely so called, has been writing from time to time to ask what disposition should be made of the copies of 'A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ' still on hand, and at last suggesting that he had use for the room they occupied in his cellar. So I had them all sent to me here, and they have arrived to-day by express, filling the man's wagon, — 706 copies out of an edition of 1000 which I bought of Munroe four years ago and have been ever since paying...
Seite 23 - While he studied with respectful attention the minks and woodchucks, his neighbors, he looked with utter contempt on the august drama of destiny of which his country was the scene, and on which the curtain had already risen. He was converting us back to a state of nature "so eloquently," as Voltaire said of Rousseau, " that he almost persuaded us to go on all fours," while the wiser fates were making it possible for us to walk erect for the first time.
Seite 16 - By you - by yours, the evil eye, - by yours, the slanderous tongue That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?' Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong! The sweet Lenore hath 'gone before...
Seite 25 - His shanty-life was a mere impossibility, so far as his own conception of it goes, as an entire independency of mankind.
Seite 44 - I see thy tendrils drink by sips From grass and clover's smiling lips ; I hear thy roots dig down for wells, Tapping the meadow's hidden cells ; Whole generations of green things, Descended from long lines of springs, I see make room for thee to bide A quiet comrade by their side ; I see the creeping peoples go Mysterious journeys to and fro, Treading to right and left of thee, Doing thee homage wonderingly. I see the wild bees as they fare, Thy cups of honey drink, but spare. I mark thee bathe and...
Seite 30 - If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweetscented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, — that is your success.
Seite 31 - The wares are sent to me at last, and I have an opportunity to examine my purchase. They are something more substantial than fame, as my back knows, which has borne them up two flights of stairs to a place similar to that to which they trace their origin.