O. Henry BiographyDoubleday, Page, 1916 - 258 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... close of the war " to a ques- tion mark . There is no doubt that O. Henry used the author's traditional right to mystify his readers in regard to his age and to the unessential facts of his life . An admirer once wrote to him begging to ...
... close of the war " to a ques- tion mark . There is no doubt that O. Henry used the author's traditional right to mystify his readers in regard to his age and to the unessential facts of his life . An admirer once wrote to him begging to ...
Pagina 25
... , at peace with God and man , and gently close our eyes in sleep . The " devoted daughter " was Mary Jane Virginia Swaim , O. Henry's mother . She was twenty - five years old at the time of her mother's death and married 25 ANCESTRY.
... , at peace with God and man , and gently close our eyes in sleep . The " devoted daughter " was Mary Jane Virginia Swaim , O. Henry's mother . She was twenty - five years old at the time of her mother's death and married 25 ANCESTRY.
Pagina 56
... close reader of the novels of Maria Edgeworth and of her earlier " Essays on Practical Education , " written in collaboration with her father . Miss Edgeworth's favourite contrast between the social careers of young women who had been ...
... close reader of the novels of Maria Edgeworth and of her earlier " Essays on Practical Education , " written in collaboration with her father . Miss Edgeworth's favourite contrast between the social careers of young women who had been ...
Pagina 58
... close of the war and again a few years after the close . Jefferson Davis was in Danville , Virginia , fifty miles from Greensboro , when he heard on April 9 , 1865 , that General Lee had surrendered . He came immedi- ately to Greensboro ...
... close of the war and again a few years after the close . Jefferson Davis was in Danville , Virginia , fifty miles from Greensboro , when he heard on April 9 , 1865 , that General Lee had surrendered . He came immedi- ately to Greensboro ...
Pagina 89
... close observer you might have descried a solitary horseman slowly wending his way ' or ' The sun was sinking be- hind the western hills , ' and so on . " Stevenson's early favourites were plays while O. Henry's were stories , but by ...
... close observer you might have descried a solitary horseman slowly wending his way ' or ' The sun was sinking be- hind the western hills , ' and so on . " Stevenson's early favourites were plays while O. Henry's were stories , but by ...
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Pagina 190 - 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 181 - It is an incident for a woman to stand up with her hand resting on a table and look out at you in a certain way; or if it be not an incident I think it will be hard to say what it is. At the same time it is an expression of character.
Pagina 137 - 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 241 - 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 200 - 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 222 - 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 214 - I hold my pen poised in vain when I would add to Dulcie's life some of those joys that belong to woman by virtue of all the unwritten, sacred, natural, inactive ordinances of the equity of heaven. Twice she had been to Coney Island and had ridden the hobby-horses. 'Tis a weary thing to count your pleasures by summers instead of by hours. Piggy needs but a word. When the girls named him, an undeserving stigma was cast upon the noble family of swine.
Pagina 85 - I soon found out what the trouble was. I had a knack of bringing out in the face of a portrait the hidden character of the original. I don't know how I did it — I painted what I saw — but I know it did me. Some of my sitters were fearfully enraged and refused their pictures.
Pagina 75 - 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 - Sun five years after his death, "the proportions of the Stevenson myth, which was so ill-naturedly punctured by Henley. It appears to be inevitably the fate of 'the writers' writer' — and O. Henry comes under this heading notwithstanding his work's universal appeal — to disintegrate into a sort of grotesque myth after his death. As a matter of fact Sydney Porter was, in a sort of a way, a good deal of a myth before he died. He was so inaccessible that a good many otherwise reasonable people who...
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