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D. Appleton and Company, 1892

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xl psl. - ... and to the extent of his means liberalhanded in acts of charity. They found also that, though in general he would as soon have thought of giving up an old friend as of giving up an opinion, he was not proof against testimony, and could part with a mistaken opinion as one parts with an old friend who has been proved faithless and unworthy. In short, Cooper was one of those who, to be loved, must be intimately known. Of his literary character I have spoken largely in the narrative of his life,...
xxx psl. - He gave the newspaper press of this state the full period of forbearance on which he had fixed, but finding that forbearance seemed to encourage assault he sought redress in the courts of law. When these litigations were first begun I recollect it seemed to me that Cooper had taken a step which would • give him a great deal of trouble, and effect but little good. I said to myself — " Alas! Leviathan is not so tamed!
xl psl. - All his excellences are translatable — they pass readily into languages the least allied in their genius to that in which he wrote, and in them he touches the heart and kindles the imagination with the same power as in the original English.
xxi psl. - My friends, she is worthy both of praise and of blame, and Cooper was not the man to shrink from bestowing either, at what seemed to him the proper time. He defended her from detractors abroad ; he sought to save her from flatterers at home. I will not say that he was in as good humor with his country when he wrote Home as found, as when he XX LIFE, GENIUS, AND WRITINGS wrote his Notions of the Americans...
xx psl. - Prairie, which appeared early in 1827, a work with the admirers of which I wholly agree. I read it with a certain awe, an undefined sense of sublimity, such as one experiences on entering for the first time upon these immense grassy deserts from which the work takes its name.
xix psl. - ... for general readers ; Dr. King, now at the head of Columbia College, and his two immediate predecessors in that office. I might enlarge the list with many other names of no less distinction. The army and navy contributed their proportion of members, whose names are on record in our national history. Cooper when in town was always present...
xxvi psl. - ... works.* In 1833, after a residence of seven years in different parts of Europe, but mostly in France, Cooper returned to his native country. The welcome which met him here was somewhat chilled by the effect of the attacks made upon him in France ; and, remembering with what zeal, and at what sacrifice of the universal acceptance which his works would otherwise have met, he had maintained the cause of his country against the wits and orators of the court party in France, we cannot wonder that...
xii psl. - His power in the delineation of character was shown in the principal personage of his story, Harvey Birch, on whom, though he has chosen to employ him in the ignoble office of a spy, and endowed him with the qualities necessary to his profession, — extreme circumspection, fertility in stratagem, and the art of concealing his real character — qualities which, in conjunction with selfishness and greediness, make the scoundrel, he has bestowed the virtues- of generosity, magnanimity, an intense...
xxxvii psl. - Hour appeared in 1850. At this time his personal appearance was remarkable. He seemed in perfect health and in the highest energy and activity of his faculties. I have scarcely seen any man at that period of life on whom his years sat more lightly.
xviii psl. - Henry D. Sedgwick, always active in schemes of benevolence; Jarvis, the painter, a man of infinite humor, whose jests awoke inextinguishable laughter; De Kay, the naturalist; Sands, the poet; Jacob Harvey, whose genial memory is cherished by many friends. Of those who are yet living was Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph; Durand...

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