Our Holidays Their Meaning And Spirit Retold From St Nicholas
Our Holidays Their Meaning And Spirit Retold From St Nicholas
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, a house in one of the hollows of the sur- rounding hills, little altered from what it was in 1807, the year he was born, when it was already at least a century and a half old.
He had no such opportunities for culture as Holmes and Lowell had in their youth. His pa- VJ J X ti a X 5 W u a. W s t/5 Id t X fe 40 OUR HOLIDAYS rents were intelligent and upright people of lim- ited means, who lived in all the simplicity of the Quaker faith, and there was nothing in his early surroundings to encourag...e and develop a literary taste. Books were scarce, and the twenty volumes on his father's shelves were, with one exception, about Quaker doctrines and Quaker heroes. The exception was a novel, and that was hidden away from the children, for fiction was forbidden fruit. No library or scholarly companionship was within reach ; and if his gift had been less than genius, it could never have triumphed over the many disad- vantages with which it had to contend. Instead of a poet he would have been a farmer like his forefathers.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
, a house in one of the hollows of the sur- rounding hills, little altered from what it was in 1807, the year he was born, when it was already at least a century and a half old.
He had no such opportunities for culture as Holmes and Lowell had in their youth. His pa- VJ J X ti a X 5 W u a. W s t/5 Id t X fe 40 OUR HOLIDAYS rents were intelligent and upright people of lim- ited means, who lived in all the simplicity of the Quaker faith, and there was nothing in his early surroundings to encourag...e and develop a literary taste. Books were scarce, and the twenty volumes on his father's shelves were, with one exception, about Quaker doctrines and Quaker heroes. The exception was a novel, and that was hidden away from the children, for fiction was forbidden fruit. No library or scholarly companionship was within reach ; and if his gift had been less than genius, it could never have triumphed over the many disad- vantages with which it had to contend. Instead of a poet he would have been a farmer like his forefathers.
What to read after Our Holidays Their Meaning And Spirit Retold From St Nicholas?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Seumas Macmanus to read onlineMoreLess
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