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 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1860 - 552 pagina’s
...resolutions, prefaced them with the following remarks : — REMARKS OF MR. LONGFELLOW. Every reader has his first book : I mean to say, one book, among...Washington Irving. I was a schoolboy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever-increasing wonder and delight, — spell-bound by its pleasant... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 82 pagina’s
...following resolutions were offered by Mr. Henry W. Longfellow: MB. LONGFELLOW'S ADDKESS. Every reader has his first book. I mean to say, one book among...desires of his mind. To me this first book was the Sketch Boole of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 76 pagina’s
...Mr. Henry W. Longfellow : MB. LONGFELLOW'S ADDRESS. Every reader has his first boolf. I mean to suy, one book among all others, which in early youth first...desires of his mind. To me this first book was the Sketch Book of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 pagina’s
...this sentence have been gratefully written. " Every reader," says Longfellow, " has his first book ; one book, among all others, which in early youth first...once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind." Franklin hit upon an excellent plan to learn the art of writing. He studied one of the charming essays... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pagina’s
...he will do well to choose a language that is generally understood. WASHINGTON IRVING.* T7VERY reader has his first book. I mean to say, one book *-* among...desires of his mind. To me this first book was the " Sketch Book" of Washington Irving. I was a schoolboy when it was published, and read each succeeding... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 480 pagina’s
...about literature. He has himself left us a record of one part of his early reading : — Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among...Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 326 pagina’s
...meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, December 5, 1859, Mr. Longfellow said : " Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among...Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 472 pagina’s
...listen, also, to his elders, John Neal and Nathaniel Deering, talking about literature. Every reader has his first book; I mean to say, one book among...Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 322 pagina’s
...meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, December 5, 1859, Mr. Longfellow said : " Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among...Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 348 pagina’s
...meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, December 5, 1859, Mr. Longfellow said : " Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among...Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant... | |
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