O. Henry BiographyDoubleday, Page, 1916 - 258 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... called " the composite smile of mankind . " O. Henry was the composite smile of Greensboro . In the second stage of an O. Henry story the lines begin suddenly to dip toward a plot or plan . Still water becomes running water . It is the ...
... called " the composite smile of mankind . " O. Henry was the composite smile of Greensboro . In the second stage of an O. Henry story the lines begin suddenly to dip toward a plot or plan . Still water becomes running water . It is the ...
Pagina 11
... called a classic until at least a half century has set its seal upon his best work . But Mr. Edward Garnett , * the English author , re- viewer , and critic , admits to " the shelf of my prized American classics " seven authors . They ...
... called a classic until at least a half century has set its seal upon his best work . But Mr. Edward Garnett , * the English author , re- viewer , and critic , admits to " the shelf of my prized American classics " seven authors . They ...
Pagina 18
... called Will Porter in the early days except by his grandmother on his father's side who occasionally called him Sydney . He never saw either of his grandfathers , both dying long before he was born . But William Swaim , his mother's ...
... called Will Porter in the early days except by his grandmother on his father's side who occasionally called him Sydney . He never saw either of his grandfathers , both dying long before he was born . But William Swaim , his mother's ...
Pagina 19
... called them , sought to bend the Patriot to their own purposes , he wrote as follows ( May 30 , 1832 ) : They soon learned from our tone that we would sooner beg for bread and be free than to compromise our principles for a seat upon a ...
... called them , sought to bend the Patriot to their own purposes , he wrote as follows ( May 30 , 1832 ) : They soon learned from our tone that we would sooner beg for bread and be free than to compromise our principles for a seat upon a ...
Pagina 54
... called ' Alamance ; or , the Great and Final Experiment , " and it was about the life of some sort of community in North Carolina . It be- 66 * See " A Boy's Town , " pages 21-22 . witched them , and though my boy could not afterward 54 ...
... called ' Alamance ; or , the Great and Final Experiment , " and it was about the life of some sort of community in North Carolina . It be- 66 * See " A Boy's Town , " pages 21-22 . witched them , and though my boy could not afterward 54 ...
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Arthur Bartlett Maurice asked Austin became Bookman Bret Harte Cabbages and Kings called character Clark Porter's drug Columbus David Caldwell DEAR MARGARET death Dick Hall Doctor dollars drug clerk father friends girl Greens Greensboro Guilford County 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 play Porter's drug store prison Raggles ranch Red Hall Retrieved Reformation road Rolling Stone romance S. S. McClure says seemed Shirley shop-girl short story Sidney Porter sketches soon sort South Southern street tell Texas theme thing thought told town turned West William Swaim Willie Porter woman words write written wrote York
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Pagina 206 - ... that architectural conception of work, which foresees the end in the beginning and never loses sight of it, and in every part is conscious of all the rest, till the -last sentence does but, with undiminished vigour, unfold and justify the first...
Pagina 200 - 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 232 - ... hour while you are 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 147 - 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 251 - 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 209 - 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 77 - 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 11 - 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 65 - 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...
Pagina 189 - 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.
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