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Image 10 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, LONDON- EDWAHD ARNOLD .C9- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 11 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, MEMORIES NOTES OF PERSONS PLACES 1852-1912 BY SIR SIDNEY COLVIN NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS 1921- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 12 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, vv PRINTED AT THE SCRIBNER PRESS NEW YORK, U. S. A.- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 13 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, CONTENTS chap. page Dedicatory Letter 7 I An East-Suffolk Boyhood and some Poets 13 II John Ruskin 38 III Edward Burne-Jones 48 IV Dante Gabriel Rossetti CO V Robert Browning 76 VI…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 15 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, To MY WIFE DEAR, I have dedicated one book to you already, and have been asking myself to whom I should dedi- cate this, which considering my age and infirmities is as…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 16 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 8 DEDICATORY LETTER began to try my prentice hand at various forms of critical writing for of creative I knew myself incap- able in order to define and if it might be…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 17 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, DEDICATORY LETTER 9 tions. But of recollections with a difference it was to be a record of the most lively impressions I could definitely recall as having been made upon me since…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 18 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 10 DEDICATORY LETTER The figures I have tried to call up are for the most part those of famous men with whom it was my good fortune to come early in life…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 19 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, DEDICATORY LETTER 11 mater or kind nursing mother to whom I owed alike training and recognition and opportunity. How much of sentiment, of haunting love and affection, is mingled with the reasoned…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 20 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 12 DEDICATORY LETTER has lately been praised by one of the most learned and famous of her living sons, my friend Sir James Frazer. But in that delight I found also an…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 21 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, CHAPTER I AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS The older one grows I believe the observation ia trite, and in my case it is certainly true the more vividly does the mind…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 22 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 14 MEMORIES AND NOTES Most of his days were spent in the conduct of his business as partner in a leading London firm of East India merchants, but in the intervals he…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 23 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS 15 up almost without stores in a hurriedly half-fortified bungalow at Arrah, with seven or eight English and fifty-odd faithful Sikhs, by a whole horde of…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 24 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 16 MEMORIES AND NOTES My father s love of our country home was not shared by my mother. She had imbibed from the writings of Ruskin, whom she knew and idolized, an…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 25 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS 17 in our language since Shakespeare, and for all his careless ways and long-winded openings an instinctive artist in crucial scenes and moments unsurpassed.* Going back…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 26 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 18 MEMORIES AND NOTES unfledged young of hedgerow birds stolen from the nest. A certain bandy-leg gad stable-help, I remember, was my confidant and instigator in these and divers baser kinds of…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 27 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS 19 But he must have been as capable as he was remark- able for his dyed whiskers and corpulent figure and choleric temper seeing that when…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 28 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 20 MEMORIES AND NOTES faithfully enough the course of one of these brooks which he best knew: It flows through flowery meads, Gladdening the herds that on its margin browse Its quiet…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 29 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS 21 hour after hour over the half-translucent amber depths and flickering green reflections of the brook, where its pools lay shaded under sweeping chestnut boughs. Of…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 30 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 22 MEMORIES AND NOTES imagination, how often have I sat musing among the spreading boughs of a great old Spanish chestnut-tree (somehow associated in my boyish mind with the Armada), whence the…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 31 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS 23 to own, more than the direct disinterested pleasures of the sense of sight, more even than the stirrings of an awakened world-imagination, there was a…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 32 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 24 MEMORIES AND NOTES had along with others in forging the links that bound his soul to nature. For my own insignificant part, I know that I should never have felt as…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 33 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS 25 literary school of Spenser. He had distinguished himself while still a bachelor of arts at Trinity with his poems Chris fs Victory and Christ s…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 34 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 26 MEMORIES AND NOTES less disparaging than his. Our countryside must be content to have produced in Crabbe not a lover or eulogist, but a son who by natural gift might have…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 35 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS 27 his own. Squalid tragedy however intense, descriptive detail however exact and vivid, unflinchingly stern or sarcastically amused veracity and insight in human portraiture however varied,…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 36 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 28 MEMORIES AND NOTES of poetry at all, but of prose and prose does not become poetry by the mere fact of being mechanically chopped into lengths. Crabbe s true place in…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 37 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS 29 person, he thus resents the colour and variety of the unprofitable vegetation of the coast: Lo where the heath, with withering brake grown o er,…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 38 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 30 MEMORIES AND NOTES have heard a more effective piece of sea-description in half a dozen words from the lips of an inland-bred serving woman of that peasant race he knew so…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 39 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, AN EAST-SUFFOLK BOYHOOD AND SOME POETS 31 several editions. For one selected and collected edition practically all the gentry in the county subscribed, and I find my father s name among the…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
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Image 40 of Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912, 32 MEMORIES AND NOTES as pleasant as his work will furnish. The first is on Landguard Fort, a solitary, not inconsiderable fortifi- cation of an old-fashioned kind built on the extremity of…- Contributor: Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Colvin, Sidney
- Date: 1921
About this Item
Title
- Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912,
Names
- Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927.
- Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1921.
Contents
- Dedicatory letter.--An East-Suffolk boyhood and some poets.--John Ruskin.--Edward Burne-Jones.--Dante Gabriel Rossetti.--Robert Browning--The Priory and George Eliot.--Little Holland house and G.F. Watts.--Robert Louis Stevenson.--Fleeming and Anne Jenkin.--Box Hill and George Meredith.--Willian Ewart Gladstone.--The British Museum and Sir Charles Newton.--On some aspects of Athens.--Edward John Trelawany.--Victor Hugo.--Léon Gambetta.--At the land's end of France.
Headings
- - Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century
- - Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC tnb 2021-12-09 update (1 card)
Medium
- 327 p. front. (port.) 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DA560 .C65
Library of Congress Control Number
- 21027477
OCLC Number
- 1369425
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