If I have any vocation, it is the making of verse. When I take my pen for that, the world opens itself ungrudgingly before me; everything seems clear and easy, as it seems sinking to the bottom would be, as one leans over the edge of his boat in one of... JAMES RUSSELL LOWEEL AN ADDRESS - Página 26por GEORGE WIILLIAM CURTIS - 1892Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1897 - 536 páginas
...give a chance for the exercise of his greatest force as a preacher. As he said of himself, — " If I have any vocation, it is the making of verse. When...dear coves at Fresh Pond. But, when I do prose, it is invitd Minerva. I feel as if I were wasting time and keeping back my message. My true place is to serve... | |
| James Russell Lowell, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1892 - 394 páginas
...established his fame. He recognized that he was dedicated to the Muses. In 1846 he wrote : — " If I have any vocation, it is the making of verse. When...clear and easy, as it seems sinking to the bottom could be as one leans over the edge of his boat in one of those dear coves at Fresh Pond. . . . My... | |
| George William Curtis - 1892 - 88 páginas
...the world." But Lowell felt that he was ( before all a poet. When he was twentyseven he wrote, " If I have any vocation it is the making of verse. When I take my pen for that, the world opens itself un, grudgingly before me ; everything seems clear and easy, as it seems sinking to the bottom would... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1893 - 444 páginas
...the next place (turn back a page or two and you will find that I have laid down a " firstly "), if I have any vocation it is the making of verse. When...dear coves at Fresh Pond. But, when I do prose, it is invitd Minerva. I feel as if I were wasting time and keeping back my message, My true place is to serve... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 páginas
...established his fame. He recognized that he was dedicated to the Muses. In 1846 he wrote : — " If I have any vocation, it is the making of verse. When...clear and easy, as it seems sinking to the bottom could be as one leans over the edge of his boat in one of those dear coves at Fresh Pond. . . . My... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1899 - 462 páginas
...and Mrs. Chapman overrated his popularity. " In the next place," — this is edifying now, — " if I have any vocation, it is the making of verse. When...dear coves at Fresh Pond. But when I do prose, it is inmtci Minervd,. My true place is to serve the cause as a poet." In the same letter he suggests what... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1899 - 418 páginas
...and Mrs. Chapman overrated his popularity. " In the next place," — this is edifying now, — " if I have any vocation, it is the making of verse. When...sinking to the bottom would be as one leans over the edere o of his boat in one of those dear coves at Fresh Pond. But when I do prose, it is invitd, MinervcL.... | |
| Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 470 páginas
...the world." But Lowell felt that he was before all a poet. When he was twenty-seven, he wrote: " If I have any vocation, it is the making of verse. When...dear coves at Fresh Pond. But when I do prose it is invitd Minerva. I feel as if I were wasting time and keeping back my message. My true place is to serve... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 392 páginas
...the next place (turn back a page or two and you will find that I have laid down a " firstly "), if I have any vocation it is the making of verse. When...one leans over the edge of his boat in one of those clear coves at Fresh Pond. But, when I do prose, it is invita Minerva. I feel as if I were wasting... | |
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