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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, T. G. Appleton. (search)
al to such occasions he retained their respect and good will. One might also say, What could Longfellow have done without him? His conversation was never forced, and the wit, for which he became as much distinguished in social life as Lowell or Holmes, was never premeditated, often making its appearance on unexpected occasions to refresh his hearers with its sparkle and originality. In the Autocrat of the breakfast table Doctor Holmes quotes this saying by the wittiest of men, that good AmeDoctor Holmes quotes this saying by the wittiest of men, that good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. Now this wittiest of men was Tom Appleton, as many of us knew at that time. He said of Leonardo da Vinci's Last supper that it probably had faded out from being stared at by sightseers, and that the same thing might have happened to the Sistine Madonna if it had not been put under glass,--these being the two most popular paintings in Europe. His fund of anecdotes was inexhaustible. Earlier in life he was occasionally given to practical jokes. A woman w
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Doctor Holmes. (search)
Doctor Holmes. I have often been inside the old Holmes house in Cambridge. It served as a bory, which seems to have been encouraged by Doctor Holmes himself, is a misconception. It was a two ell on the right side of the front door. Doctor Holmes says: Gambrel, gambrel; let me beg You wil James Freeman Clarke,--but I think it was Doctor Holmes's class-poems that gave it its chief celebon the natural bridge of American literature. Holmes did not come before the public until years aftuced in print. So the years rolled over Doctor Holmes's head; living quietly, working steadily, fluence on the future course of his life. Doctor Holmes was always liberally inclined, and ready t Certain old friends of Emerson affirmed, when Holmes published his biography of the Concord sage inrson from the author of Society and Solitude. Holmes had already composed one of the fairest tributconciliation might take place. Meanwhile Doctor Holmes pursued the even tenor of his way. Concord[5 more...]