Samuel Longfellow: Memoir and LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1894 - 306 pages |
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Page 182 - What sign showest Thou that we may see and believe Thee ? What dost Thou work ? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Page 25 - The Transcendental movement . . . was then at full tide. The germs of it had been already in Dr. Channing's sermons. Dr. Henry had translated Cousin's ' Criticism of Locke ; ' Emerson had printed ' Nature ' and the early addresses at Cambridge, Dartmouth, and Waterville, — this last his completest expression of spiritual pantheism, — and had collected and edited the chapters of ' Sartor Resartus ; ' Dr. Walker had given his Lowell lectures on Natural Religion, distinctly based on the existence...
Page 36 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Page 210 - ... He was always in an attitude of belief, always in an attitude of hope, brave as a lion, but never boasting, never saying what he meant to do or what he wished he could do, but keeping his own counsel and going a straight path, ploughing a very straight furrow through a very crooked world. He was as immovable as adamant and as playful as a sunbeam. He wrought here, as the oldest of you know, with a singleness of purpose and a singleness of feeling that knew no change from the beginning to the...
Page 274 - I touch this flower of silken leaf, Which once our childhood knew; Its soft leaves wound me with a grief Whose balsam never grew.
Page 53 - ... Mr. Longfellow, satirized this propensity in one of the nonsense stanzas then so prevalent. It must be premised that as both the editors were named Samuel, their book was often characterized as the 'Sam-Book.'1 " ' There once were two Sams of Amerique Who belonged to a profession called clerique. They hunted up hymns and cut off their limbs, These truculent Sams of Amerique.
Page 142 - ... peculiar love, with which he was regarded by God, — he owed his office as the Messiah, and all the power with which he was invested, — to his obedience, to his moral and religious integrity, to his unfailing reverence for Goodness. Why was it that he enjoyed such peculiar communion with God ? He says : " The Father hath not left me alone, because I do always those things which please Him.
Page 263 - Notice, yourself, how the French pronounce these and like words. Plays are good to read, because they give you the language of conversation. I hope you will be able to go to some of the public lectures at the College de France. They are free to all, and will train your ear, as well as entertain and instruct you. Remember that the one thing you can do better in Paris than elsewhere is to learn French; therefore do not fail to make good use of this opportunity to learn it well. Besides a good pronunciation,...
Page 34 - ... he was in the Villa Borghese. Every time I see him, it is as if he brought a bit of the dolce far niente of the Roman atmosphere of art, into my presence.
Page 209 - ... his fame has burned, and always must burn, with a paler flame, because nature set it alongside of the far brighter blaze of his brother's renown. To most readers Samuel Longfellow is known simply as the poet's brother and biographer. Yet he was in all respects a man worth knowing for his own sake: "full of enthusiasm of the quiet, deep, interior kind; worshipful, devout, reverent; a deep believer in the human heart, in its affections; having a perfect trust in the majesty of conscience, a supreme...