Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThomas Wentworth Higginson was a military commander during the America Civil War, an Abolitionist, a Unitarian minister, a writer and editor and the man who brought the poetry of Emily Dickinson before the American public. During his long life he knew many of the great people of his day including Emerson, Thoreau, Julia Ward Howe, and Wendell Phillips. |
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Through eighty - eight years of life he was never free of the pressure of their expectations . Fame did not at first seem particularly elusive . He pursued her with single - minded intensity through astonishingly varied avenues .
Through eighty - eight years of life he was never free of the pressure of their expectations . Fame did not at first seem particularly elusive . He pursued her with single - minded intensity through astonishingly varied avenues .
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Her mother seemed never to think about anything but these activities . Dickinsons kept themselves to themselves ; this lesson Emily learned very early . You must never speak of your inmost feelings to anyone , not to brother or sister ...
Her mother seemed never to think about anything but these activities . Dickinsons kept themselves to themselves ; this lesson Emily learned very early . You must never speak of your inmost feelings to anyone , not to brother or sister ...
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I am sorry I printed it if it troubled you , but I never can be sorry I wrote it . . . Your theory about it is wrong A life of mere reverie concentrates a man on himself and makes his circle smaller and smaller .
I am sorry I printed it if it troubled you , but I never can be sorry I wrote it . . . Your theory about it is wrong A life of mere reverie concentrates a man on himself and makes his circle smaller and smaller .
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| Cím | Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Szerző | Anna Mary Wells |
| Kiadó | Houghton Mifflin, 1963 |
| Eredeti forrása | a Kaliforniai Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2008. ápr. 29. |
| Terjedelem | 363 oldal |
| Idézet exportálása | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |