John Keese Wit And Litterateur a Biographical Memoir
The book John Keese Wit And Litterateur a Biographical Memoir was written by author Keese, William L. (William Linn), 1835-1904 Here you can read free online of John Keese Wit And Litterateur a Biographical Memoir book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is John Keese Wit And Litterateur a Biographical Memoir a good or bad book?
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"Boston," and the 56 MEMOIR OF " Lays and Ballads," were to come later, and then many years of celebrity as an artist at Philadelphia and in Italy, and the noble poetry of " The New Pastoral." Then — silence ! Colonel Thomas B. Thorpe — " Tom Owen, the Bee-hunter " — with his broad nose and face remindatory of Thackeray. Afterward -to win laurels in the Mexican War, and in the volumes which grew out of it ; to become a Brooklyn man, and die very re- cently, respected by all, at or past sixty. "...Charcoal Sketch" Joseph C. Neal, with his thin face and pleas- ant manner, and his conversation always suggesting- the " Chalks on a Slab-Fence, by a Shingle-Splitter." To marry sweet Alice Bradley, a few years later ; to leave her to do his unfinished work, and then to become Alice B. Haven. The ardent, speaking face and con- cise, convincing language of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, later to become one of the most -distinguished of Arc- tic explorers and martyrs; to science. The almost baby face and long curls of Estelle Anna Lewis, newly a bride, and not yet accredited- with her first volume of poems, which, and those following, marked her, as a sort of American Sappho the Lesbian.
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