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Title: American lands and letters
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism Authors, American
Publisher: New York C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y endeavors; andfinally, within times we can all remember, makingthat town the nestling-place of many of our mosthallowed literary memories. CHAPTER III. IX an upper corner of one of the few remain-ing buildings of the ancient architecturalregime at Yale—when there was uniformity (ifugliness), and where one was not disturbed by avariance of style, as large and multitudinous asthe caprices of the respective builders or donors— we found two Seniors, of whom we had some-Avhat to say. One—swart, lithe, with musclestoughened by exposures on the Litchfield hills ;the other full of easy, social flexibilities, v,dio hadwritten poetry of religious flavors and was fullof the rhythmic graces that belonged to all hisspeech, and all his action. The first of these twain (Dr. Bushnell). throughhis college career, was a little distrustful of hisreligious stand-point, but ripened at last into aspirituality and an over-leap of dogmatic barriers, which put the watch-dogs of the Consociations in132
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 135 a lively clamor at his heels; but which finally —after an orderly life of zeal and good works — leftbehind him a track of light which outshines thetraces of many honest but over-frighted dignitarieswho girded at him with sharp theologic quills. Mr. Willis, the second of these collegians (butyounger by some three years) scaled all the socialheights — whether in the drawing-rooms of his col-lege town, or in salons beyond the sea; found easytriumphs Avherever he went—giving to convention-alities undue weight and worship — taking positioneasily at the head of the lesser belles-lettres cote-ries of his day, but burdening his own reputationby heaps of abounding Hurry-graphs, thus obscur-ing and blurring the delightful piquancies whichbelong to Letters from under a Bridge. Other names and other work — of varying im-portance — engaged our attention until the authorof Prohus, with scholarly touch and guidance, ledus back to the east winds of Boston. A Nei

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