The Author, Volume 1William Henry Hills Writer Publishing Company, 1889 |
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... four chapters are created for the next morning's work . As for the work itself , mine is perhaps strangely done , for often I have written the last chapter first , and founded my whole story on the one episode that it contained . As a ...
... four chapters are created for the next morning's work . As for the work itself , mine is perhaps strangely done , for often I have written the last chapter first , and founded my whole story on the one episode that it contained . As a ...
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... four , romances appear during the course of the year . There is one gentleman regularly attached to the paper who writes two novels every twelve months . His salary is $ 20,000 , and he has the privilege of having his romances reprinted ...
... four , romances appear during the course of the year . There is one gentleman regularly attached to the paper who writes two novels every twelve months . His salary is $ 20,000 , and he has the privilege of having his romances reprinted ...
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... four to ten , will certainly pass the House . of Representatives at the present session . The Century Company has issued an enlarged reproduction of the map of Siberia published in the May Century , showing the route taken by George ...
... four to ten , will certainly pass the House . of Representatives at the present session . The Century Company has issued an enlarged reproduction of the map of Siberia published in the May Century , showing the route taken by George ...
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... four he declared himself to be " the obscurest literary man in America . " In a letter written to Longfellow , long afterward , he said : " Here , in my chamber , I sat a long , long time , waiting patiently for the world to know me ...
... four he declared himself to be " the obscurest literary man in America . " In a letter written to Longfellow , long afterward , he said : " Here , in my chamber , I sat a long , long time , waiting patiently for the world to know me ...
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... four pages of print ; another day he wrote copy enough for thirty pages of print ; and one day of hard work on " The Fair Maid of Perth " supplied the printer with manu- script for forty pages of print . Occasionally the bottom of a ...
... four pages of print ; another day he wrote copy enough for thirty pages of print ; and one day of hard work on " The Fair Maid of Perth " supplied the printer with manu- script for forty pages of print . Occasionally the bottom of a ...
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Page 2 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 137 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Page 3 - For now the Poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry : 'Proclaim the faults he would not show : Break lock and seal: betray the trust: Keep nothing sacred : 'tis but just The many-headed beast should know.
Page 123 - If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me. Not that imparted knowledge doth Diminish learning's store; But Books, I find, if often lent, Return to me no more. Read slowly, Pause frequently, Think seriously, Keep cleanly, return duly, With the corners of the leaves not turned down.
Page 171 - And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith: Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith; But he shouted a song for the brave and the free — Just read on his medal, "My country,
Page 3 - SHALL I sonnet-sing you about myself? Do I live in a house you would like to see? Is it scant of gear, has it store of pelf? ' ' Unlock my heart with a sonnet-key ? Invite the world, as my betters have done?
Page 105 - Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ;' To copy Nature is to copy them.
Page 17 - I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed ; and here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent. And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all, — at least, till I were in my grave.
Page 11 - I will go to my tent, and lie down in despair; I will paint me with black, and will sever my hair; I will sit on the shore, where the hurricane blows, And reveal to the god of the tempest my woes ; I will weep for a season, on bitterness fed, For my kindred are gone to the hills of the dead; But they died not by hunger or lingering decay ; The steel of the white man hath swept them away.
Page 43 - BETTER trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed one's life with true believing. Oh, in this mocking world, too fast The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth; Better be cheated to the last Than lose the blessed hope of truth.