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James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
ially followed in the first American, which was published in 1802. Wordsworth sent a copy of it, with a manly letter, to Mr. Fox, particularly recommending to his attention the poems Michael and The Brothers, as displaying the strength and permanence among a simple and rural population of those domestic affections which were certain to decay gradually under the influence of manufactories and poor-houses. Mr. Fox wrote a civil acknowledgment, saying that his favorites among the poems were Harry Gill, We are Seven, The Mad Mother, and The Idiot, but that he was prepossessed against the use of blank-verse for simple subjects. Any political significance in the poems he was apparently unable to see. To this second edition Wordsworth prefixed an argumentative Preface, in which he nailed to the door of the cathedral of English song the critical theses which he was to maintain against all comers in his poetry and his life. It was a new thing for an author to undertake to show the goodness
The Daily Dispatch: July 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
illery, every flag obtainable was displayed and no demonstration of patriotism . While the officers drank fourth the privates vied with each other in rendering"Hall Columbia" and other national airs, the bands tooted till the great exhaustion of lung and muscle rendered further strains excruciation, and torpedoes and fire crackers rattled back a noisy and defiant echo in the cannon, whose thunders shook the staid old town of Fredericksburg until windows rattled like the chattering teeth of Harry Gill. In the afternoon the troops were drawn up in the form of a hollow square, and left to the enjoyment of such sport as the ingenious might devise. First came a mule race. A large track was laid out, an army wagon into a judge's at twenty- four of the long eared quadrupeds arrayed in due form, and at the word "go," sent better skelter round the circle, while every one rushed for a place of safety from the peals of the astonished abuttals, whose riders, one another fumbled off with