A Moosehead Journal; My Garden Acquaintance; A Good Word for Winter
James Russell Lowell
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, April 15, 2017)
Excerpt from A Moosehead Journal; My Garden Acquaintance; A Good Word for WinterWith this modern instance of a wise saw, I de parted, deeply revolving these things with myself, and convinced that, whatever the ratio of popula tion, the average amount of human nature to the square mile differs little the world over. I thought Of it when I saw people upon the Pincian wonder ing at the alchemist sun, as if he never burned the leaden clouds to gold in sight of Charles Street. I thought of it when I found eyes first discovering at Mont Blanc how beautiful snow was. As I walked on, I said to myself, There is one exception, wise hermit, - it is just these gratis pictures which the poet puts in his show-box, and which we all gladly pay Wordsworth and the rest for a peep at. The divine faculty is to see what everybody can look at.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.