 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 82 strani
...Mr. Henry W. Longfellow: MB. LONGFELLOW'S ADDKESS. Every reader has his first book. I mean to say, one book among all others, which in early youth first...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 number... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 strani
...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 strani
...that is generally understood. WASHINGTON IRVING.* T7VERY reader has his first book. I mean to say, one book *-* among all others, which in early youth...was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight ; spell-bound by its pleasant humour, its melancholy tenderness,... | |
 | 1886 - 458 strani
...mind. It was of the Sketch Book that he wrote ' Every reader has his first book — I mean to sav, one book among all others which in early youth first...was published and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spellbound by its pleasant humour, its melancholy tenderness, its... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 326 strani
...Society, December 5, 1859, Mr. Longfellow said : " Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, 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... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 472 strani
...Neal and Nathaniel Deering, talking about literature. Every reader has his first book; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first...desires of his mind. To me, this first book was the SketchBook of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 478 strani
...us a record of one part of his early reading : — Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first...desires of his mind. To me, this first book was the SketchBook of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 348 strani
...Society, December 5, 1859, Mr. Longfellow said : " Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, 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... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 480 strani
...and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was the SketchBook of Washington 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 humor, its melancholy tenderness, its... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1887 - 204 strani
...Irving's " Sketch Book." " Every reader has his first book : — I mean to say, one book among many others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination,...ever-increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humour, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere 'of reverie — nay, even by its gray-brown covers,... | |
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Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. 
