Recollections of Louisa May Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Robert Browning, Together with Several Memorial PoemsNew England Magazine Corporation for the author, 1893 - 59 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abolitionists Alcott Nieriker anti-slavery asked autumn beautiful bitter blessing blood Boston Browning's bust called Carlyle clergyman Concord Library dear death delight Emerson England exclaimed experience expression eyes faith Faneuil Hall father Fruitlands Garrison glad hand Harriet Winslow Sewall hear heard hearts Holmes house by night invalid sister James Russell Lowell Jarley John Greenleaf Whittier knew letter lifelong Little Women live Longfellow look LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Louisa wrote Lucretia Mott Lucy Stone Lydia Maria Child Miss Alcott mother never NONQUITT Oversoul pathetic photograph poem poet poor portrait proud Quaker Quincy recall replied Ricketson Robert Browning Saint Saint's Rest Samuel Sewall seemed slave slavery songs Sordello soul speech story summer sympathy talked tell tender thee Theodore Weld Thoreau thou told took tribute Unitarian Venice verse voice Wendell Phillips wife woman suffrage words write written young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 33 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Página 50 - ... who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer! Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, "Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed, — fight on, fare ever There as here!
Página 33 - Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm ; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher ; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen ; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present ! I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Página 51 - And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!
Página 22 - Oversoul well in the van ; All on their hobbies they amble away And a terrible dust they make; Disciples devout both gaze and adore, As daily they listen and bake.
Página 6 - The good Alcott : with his long, lean face and figure, with his gray worn temples and mild radiant eyes ; all bent on saving the world by a return to acorns and the golden age ; he comes before one like a kind of venerable Don Quixote, whom nobody can even laugh at without loving...
Página 4 - Look not on her with eyes of scorn, — Dorothy Q. was a lady born! Ay! Since the galloping Normans came, England's annals have known her name; And still to the three-hilled rebel town Dear is that ancient name's renown, For many a civic wreath they won, The youthful sire and the gray-haired son.
Página 49 - I know nothing that is so affecting, nothing in any book I have ever read, as Mildred's recurrence to that "I was so young — I had no mother." I know no love like it, no passion like it, no moulding of a splendid thing after its conception, like it. And I swear it is a tragedy that must be played; and must be played, moreover, by Macready.
Página 50 - I have faith such end shall be : From the first. Power was — I knew. Life has made clear to me That, strive but for closer view, Love were as plain to see. When see ? When there dawns a day, If not on the homely earth, Then yonder, worlds away, Where the strange and new have birth, And Power comes full in play.
Página 34 - Sir, when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which place the murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips (pointing to the portraits in the hall) would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American — the slanderer of the dead.