O. Henry BiographyDoubleday, Page, 1916 - 258 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... thought . You must give up the rôle of prophet or at least readjust your prophecy to the demands of an ending wholly different from that at first conjectured . This stage in the life was reached in 1898 , when misfortune , swift ...
... thought . You must give up the rôle of prophet or at least readjust your prophecy to the demands of an ending wholly different from that at first conjectured . This stage in the life was reached in 1898 , when misfortune , swift ...
Pagina 6
... thought of what might have been . Now came the discovery , through a photograph pub- lished in a New York magazine , that O. Henry , vari- ously styled " the American Kipling , " " the American de Maupassant , " " the American Gogol ...
... thought of what might have been . Now came the discovery , through a photograph pub- lished in a New York magazine , that O. Henry , vari- ously styled " the American Kipling , " " the American de Maupassant , " " the American Gogol ...
Pagina 26
... thought of her with a devotion and pride and sense of temperamental indebtedness that he felt for no one else , nor for all his other relatives put to- gether . Whatever vein of quiet humour marked his allusions to the other members of ...
... thought of her with a devotion and pride and sense of temperamental indebtedness that he felt for no one else , nor for all his other relatives put to- gether . Whatever vein of quiet humour marked his allusions to the other members of ...
Pagina 32
... thoughts to which she gave expression . There was a play of color in her cheeks richer than the blush of the peach . She was quick of wit and a match for any would - be iconoclast who undertook to measure repartee with her . She was ...
... thoughts to which she gave expression . There was a play of color in her cheeks richer than the blush of the peach . She was quick of wit and a match for any would - be iconoclast who undertook to measure repartee with her . She was ...
Pagina 49
... thought that it was a necessary sacrifice . The spirits of the soldiers would have been affected if the cannon had been sent off the field , and in this woody country cannon cannot always be sent off at a critical moment . The General ...
... thought that it was a necessary sacrifice . The spirits of the soldiers would have been affected if the cannon had been sent off the field , and in this woody country cannon cannot always be sent off at a critical moment . The General ...
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Abia Arthur Bartlett Maurice asked Austin became Bookman Bret Harte Cabbages and Kings called character David Caldwell DEAR MARGARET death Dick Hall dollars drug clerk drug store father friends girl Greens Greensboro Guilford County hand heard heart Henry Henry's hospital humour interest Jimmy Connors Judge Tourgee knew La Salle County later learned letter lived Lord Jim Magazine memory Miss Lina mother never night North Carolina novel once passed play prison quiet Raggles ranch Red Hall Retrieved Reformation Roach road Rolling Stone romance says seemed sent Shirley shop-girl short story Sidney Porter sketches soon sort South Southern Stephen Hoyle street tell Texas theme thing thought told town turned West William Swaim Willie Porter woman words Worth write written wrote York
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Pagina 196 - The time has come,' the Walrus said, ' To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Pagina 143 - Which of us here has not observed this, or maybe experienced something of that feeling in his own person — this extreme weariness of emotions, the vanity of effort, the yearning for rest ? Those striving with unreasonable forces know it well — the shipwrecked castaways in boats, wanderers lost in a desert, men battling against the unthinking might of nature, or the stupid brutality of crowds.
Pagina 245 - There was a little dog and his name was Rover, and when he died, he died all over — and — when — he — died — he — died — all — over.
Pagina 205 - Laugh through my pane, then; solicit the bee; Gibe him, be sure ; and, in midst of thy glee, Love thy queen, worship me! — Worship whom else? For am I not, this day, Whate'er I please? What shall I please to-day? My morning, noon, eve, night — how spend my day ? To-morrow I must be Pippa who winds silk, The whole year round, to earn just bread and milk...
Pagina 228 - Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are "story cities" — New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.
Pagina 73 - She had been educated at home, and her knowledge of the world was derived from inference and by inspiration. Of such is the precious, small group of essayists made. While she talked to me I kept brushing my fingers, trying, unconsciously, to rid them guiltily of the absent dust from the half-calf backs of Lamb, Chaucer, Hazlitt, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne, and Hood. She was exquisite, she was a valuable discovery. Nearly everybody nowadays knows too much — oh, so much too much — of real life.
Pagina 9 - I'm afraid to go home in the dark." That was in the summer of 1910. Since his death, his fame in America has grown greater and greater with every year. The laurel wreath that should have crowned his brow is exchanged for the garland laid upon his grave. And the time is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking world will recognize in O. Henry one of the great masters of modern literature.
Pagina 228 - ... thinking of your coal bills and heavy underwear. But as soon as they come to mistake your silence for conviction, madness comes upon them, and they picture the city of the Golden Gate as the Bagdad of the New World. So far, as a matter of opinion, no refutation is necessary. But, dear cousins all (from Adam and , Eve descended), it is a rash one who will lay his finger on the — "" '< , . / map and say: "In this town there can be no romance — what could happen here?
Pagina 151 - He seemed oblivious to the world of sleeping convicts about him, hearing not even the occasional sigh or groan from the beds which were stretched before him in the hospital ward or the tramp of the passing guards. After he had written for perhaps two hours he would rise, make a round of the hospital, and then come back to his work again. He got checks at different times and once told me that he had had only two stories rejected while he was in prison.
Pagina 61 - Yet it was a magnificent sentiment that underlay it all, — an, unfaltering determination, an invincible defiance to all that had the seeming of compulsion or tyranny. One can not but regard with pride and sympathy the indomitable men, who, being conquered in war, yet resisted every effort of the conqueror to change their laws, their customs, or even the personnel of their ruling class; and this, too, not only with unyielding stubbornness, but with success. One can not...
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