He rejected the proposal as abruptly as if he had been asked to offer sacrifices to Apollo. He would allow no such work to follow him there. Not even the shadow of his business must fall upon the consecrated haunts of his muse. He rarely brought or sent... The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1849-1857 - Página 171de William Cullen Bryant - 1975 - 564 páginasVisualização parcial - Sobre este livro
| Century Association (New York, N.Y.) - 1878 - 88 páginas
...paper as he might have occasion to consult. He rejected the proposal as abruptly as if I had asked him to offer sacrifices to Apollo. He would allow no such...waters. This separation of his professional from his poetical life must be taken into account in any effort to explain the uniform esteem in which he was... | |
| William Shepard Walsh - 1882 - 368 páginas
...paper as he might have occasion to consult. He rejected the proposal as abruptly as if I had asked him to offer sacrifices to Apollo. He would allow no such...consecrated haunts of his muse. He rarely brought or sent any thing from the country for the Evening Post ; but if he did, it was easy to detect in the character... | |
| William Shepard Walsh - 1889 - 352 páginas
...paper as he might have occasion to consult. He rejected the proposal as abruptly as if I had asked him to offer sacrifices to Apollo. He would allow no such...consecrated haunts of his muse. He rarely brought or sent any thing from the country for the Evening Post ; but if he did, it was easy to detect in the character... | |
| John Bigelow - 1890 - 380 páginas
...paper elsewhere, and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he never wrote for the paper at his home. When the semi-centennial anniversary of the " Evening...waters. This separation of his professional from his poetical life must be taken into account in any effort to explain the uniform esteem in which he was... | |
| John Bigelow - 1893 - 382 páginas
...order that he might be free from interruption he was advised to go down to his country-home at Eoslyn and remain there until it was finished, and have such...waters. This separation of his professional from his poetical life must be taken into account in any effort to explain the uniform esteem in which, he was... | |
| Robert A. Ferguson - 1984 - 456 páginas
...creativity. Friends countered by isolating the high-mindedness of the poet in a separation of functions. "Not even the shadow of his business must fall upon the consecrated haunts of his muse," claimed John Bigelow in a typical defense of his business partner. 3 This debate created the "chaste... | |
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