O. Henry BiographyDoubleday, Page, 1916 - 258 pagine |
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Pagina 14
... means ignorant . He talked interestingly , because genuinely , until he put the usual question : " What line of goods do you carry ? " When I had to admit my unappealing profession his manner of speech became at once formal and distant ...
... means ignorant . He talked interestingly , because genuinely , until he put the usual question : " What line of goods do you carry ? " When I had to admit my unappealing profession his manner of speech became at once formal and distant ...
Pagina 31
... mean pretentions and , perhaps leaving out the Salisbury Watchman and the Hillsboro paper long presided over by that venerable old editor Dennis Heartt , the Greensboro Patriot stood next in age in the State , and the name of William ...
... mean pretentions and , perhaps leaving out the Salisbury Watchman and the Hillsboro paper long presided over by that venerable old editor Dennis Heartt , the Greensboro Patriot stood next in age in the State , and the name of William ...
Pagina 41
... means of family support during the latter years of O. Henry's life in his native State . One cannot but feel a keen regret that neither the grandmother , nor the father , nor the aunt lived to witness or even to fore - glimpse the fame ...
... means of family support during the latter years of O. Henry's life in his native State . One cannot but feel a keen regret that neither the grandmother , nor the father , nor the aunt lived to witness or even to fore - glimpse the fame ...
Pagina 65
... means to secure the end it had in view . The brain , the wealth , the chivalric spirit of the South , was restive under what it deemed degradation and oppression . This association offered a ready and effective method of overturning the ...
... means to secure the end it had in view . The brain , the wealth , the chivalric spirit of the South , was restive under what it deemed degradation and oppression . This association offered a ready and effective method of overturning the ...
Pagina 75
... means of widening and enriching her own inner life , not of learning facts about the world without . Scott and Dickens were her favourite novelists and Father Ryan her favourite poet . She did not measure literature by life but life by ...
... means of widening and enriching her own inner life , not of learning facts about the world without . Scott and Dickens were her favourite novelists and Father Ryan her favourite poet . She did not measure literature by life but life 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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