Book/Printed Material Oldport days.
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Image 1 of Oldport days.- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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- Date: 1873
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- Date: 1873
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Image 6 of Oldport days. ^g tl)c ^ame ^rttl)or. OUT-DOOR PAPERS. I vol. i6mo. Price, ISO- MALBONE AN OLDPORT ROMANCE. I vol. i6mo. Price, $1.50. ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT. I vol. i6mo. Price, $1.50. ATLANTIC...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 7 of Oldport days.- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 8 of Oldport days.- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 9 of Oldport days. OLDPORT DAYS. THOMAS WENTWOETH HIGGINSON. WITH TEN HELIOTYPE ILLUSTEATI0N8, From Views taken in Newport, R. expressly for this work. J BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, Latb Ticxnor Fields and Fields, Osgood,...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 10 of Oldport days. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year ISTS, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD CO., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. U.Niv-ERsiTY Press: Welch, Biceudw, Co., Cambridge.- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 11 of Oldport days. OOJ^TENTS. Page Oldport in Winter 11 Oldport Wharves 35 The Haunted Window 59 A Dkift-wood Fire 88 An Artist s Creation 114 In A Wherry 142 Madam Delia s Expectations 162 Sunshine...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 12 of Oldport days.- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 13 of Oldport days. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Old Stone Mill frontispiece. Old Houses by the Bay Page 35 Blue Rocks 39 Wreck at Brenton s Cove 88 Jewish Cemetekv 114 Hakbos 142 State House 1^^ Bathing...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 14 of Oldport days.- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 16 of Oldport days.- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 17 of Oldport days. Oldport Days. OLDPOET IN WINTER.. OUR August life rushes by, in Oldport, as if we were all shot from the mouth of a can- non, and were endeavoring to exchange visiting- cards...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 18 of Oldport days. 12 OLDPORT DAYS. for two months are often those who regard it as uninhabitable for the otlier ten. The Persian poet Saadi says that in a certain region of Armenia, wliere he...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 19 of Oldport days. OLDPORT IN WINTER. 13 to see some opulent citizen in his first kid gloves. His new-born splendor stands in sucli brilliant relief against the confirmed respectability of the Old Stone ]\Iill, the...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 20 of Oldport days. 14 OLDPORT DAYS. walls appeared to hold the pure essence of the prayers of a generation, ■while the routine and the ennui had vanished all away. One may here do the same...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 21 of Oldport days. OLDPORT IN WINTER. 15 mail-bags were larger than those arriving at New York. But if it were so now, what memories would there be to talk about If you wish for Syrian...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 22 of Oldport days. 16 OLDPORT DAYS. hues, and dripping with sea-water and sea-mem- ories, each Aveed an argosy, bearing its own wild histories. At tliis season, the very houses move, and roll slowly by, looking...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 23 of Oldport days. OLDPORT IN WINTER. 17 such as might have been devised by Adam to con- sole his Eve when Paradise was lost. Yet of late the desecrating hammer and the ear-piercing saw have...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 24 of Oldport days. 18 OLDPOET DAYS. or at early dawn, and by day they perhaps lie about on the rocks, or sit upon one heel beside a fish-house door. I knew a missionary who resigned...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 25 of Oldport days. OLDPORT IN WINTER. 19 that universal delusion among the summer visitors, that we spend all winter in active preparations for next season. Xot so we all devote it solely to meditations on...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 26 of Oldport days. 20 OLDPOKT DAYS. violate the conditions of the truce. Could you not postpone the affair till next July Every country has its customs I observe that in some places, New York for...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 27 of Oldport days. OLDPORT IX WINTER. 21 their antagonist, here drives slowly too. The number of the aged among us is surprising, and explains some phenomena otherwise strange. You will notice, for instance, that there...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 28 of Oldport days. 22 OLDrOUT DAYS. In towns like this, from which the young men mostly migrate, the work of life devolves upon the venerable and the very young. When I first came to Oldport,...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 29 of Oldport days. OLDPORT IN WINTER. 23 models of strict discipline beside their suhurban comi5eers. A friend of mine declares that he went lately into a country bank, near by, and found no one on...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 30 of Oldport days. 24 OLDPOET DAYS. debtors had repented, creditors grown Icind, or your children had paid your debts. Perils had passed, hopes were chastened, and the most eager expectant took calmly the missive from...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 31 of Oldport days. OLDPORT IN WINTER. 25 boarding-house. He is hale and broad, with a head sunk between two strong shoulders; his beard falls like snow upon his breast, longer and longer each year, \vhile...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 32 of Oldport days. 26 OLDPORT DAYS. assisted as listener, when one old man on a wharf was doubting the assertion of another old man about a certain equinoctial gale, I saw my friend draw his...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 33 of Oldport days. OLDPOHT IN WINTER. 27 as to seem a sister, though some faint suggestion of wages and subordination may be still preserved. Among these ladies, as in Cranford, there is a dignified reticence...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 34 of Oldport days. 28 OLDPORT DAYS. wanes and the embers fade, can give the tale of the Phantom of Eough Point. Gliding farther and farther into the past, they revert to the brilliant historic period...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 35 of Oldport days. OLDPOET IN WINTER. 29 A third from New York brings a briefer pedigi-ee, but more gilded. Their claims are incompatible but there is no common standard, and so neither can have precedence....- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 36 of Oldport days. 30 OLDPORT DAYS. fashion are far more racy than anything which fashion can say for itself The life of our own fishermen and pilots remains active, in its way, all Avinter and...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 37 of Oldport days. OLDPOHT IN WINTKR. 31 All out-door \voi k in winter has a cheerful look, from the triumph of caloric it implies but I know none in which man seems to revert more...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 38 of Oldport days. 32 OLDPORT DAYS. manure upon the lawns. The mercury rarely drops to zero here, and there is little snow but a new- fallen drift has just the same virgin beauty as farther...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 39 of Oldport days. OLDPORT IN WINTER. 33 like vital force in the individual particles of waves. Each separate drop appears more charged with desperate and determined life. The lines of surf run into each other...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873
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Image 40 of Oldport days. 34 OLDPORT DAYS. born with another throb it has reached its full size, and looks at you, coy and defiant and almost in that instant it is utterly gone. You cannot conceive...- Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1873