Recollections of a Lifetime: Or Men and Things I Have Seen; In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend; Historical, Biographical, Anecdotical, and Descriptive
Recollections of a Lifetime: Or Men and Things I Have Seen; In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend; Historical, Biographical, Anecdotical, and Descriptive
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...Duyckinck have found in the mine wrought so abortively by Mr. Kettell, both gold and glory. There were, however, other reasons for his failure, and among them an unfortunate slip as to the authorship of " Hail Columbia," which stood thus: " J. Hopkinson: " We have no knowledge of this author. The popular ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...Duyckinck have found in the mine wrought so abortively by Mr. Kettell, both gold and glory. There were, however, other reasons for his failure, and among them an unfortunate slip as to the authorship of " Hail Columbia," which stood thus: " J. Hopkinson: " We have no knowledge of this author. The popular national ode which follows, appeared tirst, we believe, in Philadelphia." Such ignorance and such carelessness were deemed offensive by the friends of Judge Hopkinson, son of the well-known author of the " Battle of the Kegs," and other popular effusions, and himself a somewhat noted poet. Mr. Walsh made this, and other blunders, the occasion of a stinging castigation in his National Gazette. The result was injurious to Mr. Kettell in many ways: it injured his rising literary reputation, and so shattered his nerves that for some years he lost courage as well as encouragement, ex-Voi.. II.--13 eept what I continued to give him. despite this failure. It wss subsequent to this that I supplied him with the means of going to Europe, and thus furnished him with the opportunity of taking a new start in the world. And yet I sponged this man's brains, and stole his fair fame--according to this Boston writer! I suppose, Mr. Editor, that this is enough for the present; and yet I am disposed to crave a little more of your patience and your space, to state more precisely my relations with Mr. Ket-tell, and thus remove him from the disadvantageous light in which he is placed by the ill-judged pretenses of his too earnest friend. During a space of twelve or fifteen years, and that the most active and engrossed portion of my life, I suffered greatly from a disease in ray eyes, which threatened blindness: sometimes for weeks together I was confined to a dark...
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