This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...work than newspaper writing, in which the hurry, inseparable from journalism, defeated all ambition to reason justly and to write with elegance. The following glowing lines, written at this time, reveal the young poet's aspirations. Land of my fathers! if the name, Now humble and unwed to fame, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...work than newspaper writing, in which the hurry, inseparable from journalism, defeated all ambition to reason justly and to write with elegance. The following glowing lines, written at this time, reveal the young poet's aspirations. Land of my fathers! if the name, Now humble and unwed to fame, Hereafter burn upon the lip As one of those which may not die, Linked in eternal fellowship, With visions pure, and strong, and high--If the wild dreams which quicken now The throbbing pulse of heart and brow, Hereafter take a real form, Like spectres changed to beings warm, And over temples warm and gray The star-like crown of glory shine, Thine be the bard's undying lay, The murmur of his praise be thine! One does not criticise such lines. Nor can they be understood but by recalling our "volcanic " days, when our own secret imaginings were of future fame and applause, and the spirit, unyoked as yet to actual and possible tasks, wandered, fancy free, into the favours and honours of the world. CHAPTER V. THROUGH THE FIRE. "God said: 'Break thou these yokes; undo These heavy burdens. I ordain A work to last thy whole life through, A ministry of strife and pain.' Forego thy dreams of lettered ease, Put thou the scholar's promise by, The rights of man are more than these, He heard, and answered: 'Here am I!'" "The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment." HITTIER had never lost sight of his old friend and helper, William Lloyd Garrison. That young soldier of journalism, after leaving the Newburyport "Free Press," had gone to Boston, where he was soon engaged in editing a temperance paper. While in this city he met Benjamin Lundy, a Baltimore Friend and pioneer of Abolitionism, whose Anti-Slavery journal, ...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
