Image: Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896) (14576879648)

Description: Identifier: lifelettersofol01mors (find matches) Title: Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Morse, John Torrey, 1840-1937 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Subjects: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Publisher: London S. Low, Marston Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ghest pitch of lithe excite-ment. He was, I fancy, the first person to expressa profound respect for talk. Remember, he said,that talking is one of the fine arts,—the noblest,the most important, and the most difficult, — and thatits fluent harmonies may be spoiled by the intrusionof a single harsh note. He had also a curious theory about his talking.The idea, he said, of a mans interviewinghimself is rather odd, to be sure. But then that iswhat we are all of us doing every day. I talk halfthe time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is inthem. One brings to light all sorts of personal prop-erty he had forgotten in his inventory. And again:Talk, to me, is only spading up the ground for cropsof thought. I cant answer for what will turn up.But the wise men thought that this spading wasmore fascinating to witness than was the subsequentreaping of the crop in the shape of printed words. Hoar AZassiz Appieton Sumner Andrew Whipple Fields Text Appearing After Image: ■ / • //v//// /,;■/,, //n . /,,/,, /-,/tf // /,//■ POETRY: THE SATURDAY CLUB: ETC. 247 Sometimes he spoke of it more lightly: People— the right kind of people — meet at a dinner-partyas two ships meet and pass each other at sea. Theyexchange a few signals; ask each others reckoning,where from, where bound; perhaps one supplies theother with a little food or a few dainties; then theypart, to see each other no more. But the pleasant-est incident on a voyage is to exchange greetings withanother vessel; and those who met Dr. Holmes in hisprime, in mid-passage, were likely to treasure thememory of few more delightful episodes. Some persons used to charge him with talking toomuch, — a singular charge, for it was an unreceptivemind that could have too much of such talk. Stillthis was sometimes said, and he himself occasionallypenitentially declared, after he had charmed a dinner-table for a whole evening, that he wished that he hadbeen more silent and gathered more from his con Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896) (14576879648)
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