Donald Grant Mitchell:American Lands And Letters
- new book ISBN: 9781154340921
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrat… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... approaches; scorning this; scorning, too, the conciliatory, fondling ways of those who made themselves popular favorites. Wronging and bewraying himself in this matter, and unwittingly making the ways of approach to his inner and truest kindlinesses rough ways for outsiders or even old acquaintances to travel. Boslyn and Ripened Years. Through all the changes of voyaging and the vexations of journalism--whether warily measuring the growth of parties, or wantoning under tropical latitudes -- Bryant never lost the rural love and aptitudes which had belonged to his young days upon the pasture slopes or in the wooded dells of Hampshire. Always under the murmuring thunders of grandest orchestras, he Heard The housewife bee and humming-bird. And when -- at the lift in the tide of his moneyed affairs, of which I spoke -- he bought a country home (1843) upon Long Island, he wrote to his Western brother, with all the exuberance of a boy: Dear John : Congratulate me! I have bought forty acres of solid earth at Hempstead Harbor.* There, when I get money enough, I mean to build a house. He did not build -- all the wiser he -- since there was a great, ponderous, Quaker-fashioned house upon the site, which, with certain added dependencies and some properly restrained decorative treatment, made a delightful summer home for the poet and his family up to the day of his death. No man ever put more hilarious honesty into an escape from office drudgery of the city than he into his regular (or irregular) visitations to the trees and pools of Roslyn, or to that other eyrie -- which he secured at a later day -- on the hills of Cummington. The reader will surely pardon me if I set down -- from an old note-book -- some briefest passages and memories of a June visit to that suburban ... Donald Grant Mitchell, Books, History, American Lands And Letters Books>History The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons; Publication date: 1901; Subjects: United States; American literature; Authors, American; History / General; Literary Collections / American / General; Literary Collections / Letters; Literary Criticism / American / General; Travel / United States / Midwest / West North Central; Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic;<
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Donald Grant Mitchell:American Lands And Letters
- new book ISBN: 9781154340921
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrat… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... approaches; scorning this; scorning, too, the conciliatory, fondling ways of those who made themselves popular favorites. Wronging and bewraying himself in this matter, and unwittingly making the ways of approach to his inner and truest kindlinesses rough ways for outsiders or even old acquaintances to travel. Boslyn and Ripened Years. Through all the changes of voyaging and the vexations of journalism--whether warily measuring the growth of parties, or wantoning under tropical latitudes -- Bryant never lost the rural love and aptitudes which had belonged to his young days upon the pasture slopes or in the wooded dells of Hampshire. Always under the murmuring thunders of grandest orchestras, he Heard The housewife bee and humming-bird. And when -- at the lift in the tide of his moneyed affairs, of which I spoke -- he bought a country home (1843) upon Long Island, he wrote to his Western brother, with all the exuberance of a boy: Dear John : Congratulate me! I have bought forty acres of solid earth at Hempstead Harbor.* There, when I get money enough, I mean to build a house. He did not build -- all the wiser he -- since there was a great, ponderous, Quaker-fashioned house upon the site, which, with certain added dependencies and some properly restrained decorative treatment, made a delightful summer home for the poet and his family up to the day of his death. No man ever put more hilarious honesty into an escape from office drudgery of the city than he into his regular (or irregular) visitations to the trees and pools of Roslyn, or to that other eyrie -- which he secured at a later day -- on the hills of Cummington. The reader will surely pardon me if I set down -- from an old note-book -- some briefest passages and memories of a June visit to that suburban ... Donald Grant Mitchell, Books, History, American Lands And Letters Books>History, General Books LLC<
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Mitchell, Donald Grant:American Lands and Letters
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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 116 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=7mm, Gew.=181gr, [GR: 25500 - TB/Geschichte], [SW: - History - Ge… More...
Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 116 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=7mm, Gew.=181gr, [GR: 25500 - TB/Geschichte], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons; Publication date: 1901; Subjects: United States; American literature; Authors, American; History / General; Literary Collections / American / General; Literary Collections / Letters; Literary Criticism / American / General; Travel / United States / Midwest / West North Central; Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic;<
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