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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General writings-of-Oliver-Wendell-Holmes~~Oliver-Wendell-Holmes General Books LLC Purc… Plus…

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General writings-of-Oliver-Wendell-Holmes~~Oliver-Wendell-Holmes General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. The reader who glances over these papers, and, finding them too full of small details and the lesser personal matters which belong naturally to private correspondences, turns impatiently from them, has my entire sympathy and good-will. He is not one of those for whom these pages are meant. Having no particular interest in the writer or his affairs, he does not care for the history of "the migrations from the blue bed to the brown " and the many Mistress Quick- lyisms of circumstantial narrative. Yet all this may be pleasant reading to relatives and friends. But I must not forget that a new generation of readers has come into being since I have been writing for the public, and that a new generation of aspiring and brilliant authors has grown into general recognition. The dome of Boston State House, which is the centre of my little universe, was glittering in its fresh golden pellicle before I had reached the scriptural boundary of life. It has lost its lustre now, and the years which have dulled its surface have whitened the dome of that fragile structure in which my consciousness holds the session of its faculties. Time is not to be cheated. It is easy to talk of perennial youth, and to toy with the flattering fictions which every ancient personage accepts as true so far as he himself is concerned, and laughs at as foolish talk when he hears them applied to others. When, in my exulting immaturity, I wrote the lines not unknown to the reading public under the name of "The Last Leaf," I spoke of the possibility that I myself might linger on the old bough until the buds and blossomsof a new spring were opening and spreading all around me. I am not as yet the solitary survivor of my literary contemporaries, and, remembering who my few coevals are, it may well be hoped that I...<

ISBN: 9780217291002

The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes Vol. 10 Author :Oliver Wende Holmes 9780217291002 0217291007