Our Holidays Their Meaning And Spirit Retold From St Nicholas
Our Holidays Their Meaning And Spirit Retold From St Nicholas
Seumas Macmanus
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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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