 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...  O. Henry Biography - Pagina 75di Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 258 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1915 - 680 pagine
...life but life by literature. I have often thought that Miss Lina must have been in O. Henry's thought when he wrote those suggestive words about Azalea...boys about her at recess and read to them from some classic author. When she saw that she had caught their interest she would announce a Friday night meeting... | |
 | North Carolina Literary and Historical Association - 1906 - 942 pagine
...life but life by literature. I have often thought that Miss Lina must have been in O. Henry's thought when he wrote those suggestive words about Azalea...boys about her at recess and read to them from some classic author. When she saw that she had caught their interest she would announce a Friday night meeting... | |
 | O. Henry - 1910 - 338 pagine
...they were not there. Azalea Adair and I had conversation, a little of which will be repeated to you. She was a product of the old South, gently nurtured...too much — oh, so much too much — of real life. I could perceive clearly that Azalea Adah1 was very poor. A house and a dress she had, not much else,... | |
 | O. Henry - 1918 - 330 pagine
...brushing my fingers, trying, unconsciously, to rid them guiltily of the absent dust from the half -calf backs of Lamb, Chaucer, Hazlitt, Marcus Aurelius,...too much — oh, so much too much — of real life. I could perceive clearly that Azalea Adair was very poor. A house and a dress she had, not much else,... | |
 | O. Henry - 1910 - 340 pagine
...guiltily of the absent dust from the half -calf backs of Lamb, Chaucer, Hazlitt, Marcus Aure* lius, Montaigne and Hood. She was exquisite, she was a valuable...too much — oh, so much too much — of real life. I could perceive clearly that Azalea Adair was very poor. A house and a dress she had, not much else,... | |
 | O. Henry - 1918 - 332 pagine
...Lamb, Chaucer, Hazlitt, Marcus Aure* lius, Montaigne and Hood. She was exquisite, she was a raluable discovery. Nearly everybody nowadays knows too much — oh, so much too much — of real life. I could perceive clearly that Azalea Adair was very poor. A house and a dress she had, not much else,... | |
 | O. Henry - 1910 - 332 pagine
...their other side. You old fool nigger, can't you tell people from other people when you see 'em?" lius, Montaigne and Hood. She was exquisite, she was a valuable discovery. Nearly everybody nowadays know? too much — oh, so much too much — of real life. I could perceive clearly that Azalea Adair... | |
 | North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1913 - 644 pagine
...life but life by literature. I have often thought that Miss Lina must have been in O. Henry's thought when he wrote those suggestive words about Azalea...boys about her at recess and read to them from some classic author. When she saw that she had caught their interest she would announce a Friday night meeting... | |
 | O. Henry - 1917 - 336 pagine
...brushing my fingers, trying, unconsciously, to rid them guiltily of the absent dust from the half -calf backs of Lamb, Chaucer, Hazlitt, Marcus Aurelius,...too much — oh, so much too much — of real life. I could perceive clearly that Azalea Adair was very poor. A house and a dress she had, not much else,... | |
 | 1917 - 742 pagine
...unconsciously, to rid them guiltily of the absent dust from the half-calf backs of Lamb, Chaucer, Mazlitt, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne, and Hood. She was exquisite;...too much — oh, so much too much — of real life. But when O. Henry's boyhood friends recall him it is not usually as a pupil in Miss Lina's school;... | |
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