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Excerpt from The Broughton House
"Do you suppose Mr. Sonderby will come, my dear? It would be just like him not to appear, after all. You never can tell anything about that man."
Mrs. Ellerton hardly looked at her husband as she spoke, for she was taking a last rapid survey of the tiny tea-table, and as she uttered the words "anything about that man, " she bent over and made a more accurate right angle of the tea knife and spoon at the visit...
Excerpt from A Study of Prose Fiction
On the contrary, wherever an allu sion to the writings of masters like Scott and Thackeray and Hawthorne would serve the purpose, I have given myself the pleasure of such illustration, knowing that their books will continue to be read long after the novels of the year have faded out of memory.
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Excerpt from Fishing With a Worm
"The last fish I caught was with a worm." - Izaak Walton.
A defective logic is the born fisherman's portion. He is a pattern of inconsistency. He does the things which he ought not to do, and he leaves undone the things which other people think he ought to do. He observes the wind when he should be sowing, and he regards the clouds, with temptation tugging familiarly at his heartstrings, when he might be gras...
Excerpt from The Powers at Play
She came running down-stairs into the big, dimly lighted drawing-room, his card still in her hand.
"It is Dr. Colburn, I see, " she exclaimed delightedly. "Let me congratulate you. Really, isn't it impressive!" She wept downward and backward in mock ceremony, with eyes fixed demurely upon the gleaming card which announced to the world that Samuel W. Colburn had been made an M.D.
"Thank you, Miss Warburton, " ...
Excerpt from Park-Street PapersAldrich, one of the vivid and delightful figures in the already shadowy line of Atlantic editors, was.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst re...
Excerpt from The American Mind and American Idealism
An editorial in tit Springfield Republican points out that the low standard of American writing is due, not to any lack of technical training, but to minds made flabby by "soft" courses and "lazy trifling with current fiction." Given minds of this sort, no amount of technical discipline will produce good writing, for, "important as it is, and to be encouraged in every way, formal instructio...
Excerpt from The American Mind
The material for this book was delivered as the E. T. Earl Lectures for 1912 at the Pacific Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California, and I wish to take this opportunity to express to the President and Faculty of that institution my appreciation of their generous hospitality.
The lectures were also given at the Lowell Institute, Boston, the Brooklyn Institute, and elsewhere, under the title "American Traits i...
Excerpt from Walt WhitmanMy acknowledgments should also be made to William Sloane Kennedy, to Professor F. N. Scott of the University of Michigan, to Mr. Albert Phelps of New Orleans, to Professor George H. Palmer of Harvard University, to Mr. William Roscoe Thayer, to Miss Jeannette Gilder, and to Miss Elizabeth Porter Gould, for 1 See Appendix.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find ...
Excerpt from Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle was a Scottish peasant who b& came one of the great names of English literature. The story of that transformation and achievement has been told and retold by many a brilliant writer during the generation Which has elapsed since Carlyle's death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of a...
Excerpt from Little Masterpieces: History, Self-Reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, the American Scholar
He continued his teaching till free from debt, then in 1825 went back to Harvard to study theology. But he made the mistake, for the sake of economy, of taking a damp, dimly lighted room. Rheumatism, weak eyes, and a stricture in the chest were the results, so that in 1826 when he was approbated as a Unitarian minister, he was in a fair way ...
Excerpt from Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson
The material for a life of Henry Lee Higginson is abundant. He had a fondness for keeping letters and memoranda, and the correspondence to which I have had access is enormous in quantity, and covers a period of more than seventy years. During both of his long sojourns in Europe, in his youth, he kept diaries, as he did for a while during the Civil War, and later in life he dictated some viv...
