. Review of reviews and world's work. MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE. I THE OLD AGE OF NEIV ENGLAND AUTHORS. 699 fame, who still lingers in the twilight rays of 90winters, was engaged in most active enterpriseslong after three score and ten. Charles EliotNorton, who was born in 182 7, still holds hisplace as our foremost literary critic. Longfellow beautifully says, in MorituriSalutamus—a poem written very late in his. EX-SENATOR JAMES W. BRADBURY, OE MAINE. own life, and one that has the ripeness and mel-lowness that cliaracterized his last poems : Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall ce
. Review of reviews and world's work. MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE. I THE OLD AGE OF NEIV ENGLAND AUTHORS. 699 fame, who still lingers in the twilight rays of 90winters, was engaged in most active enterpriseslong after three score and ten. Charles EliotNorton, who was born in 182 7, still holds hisplace as our foremost literary critic. Longfellow beautifully says, in MorituriSalutamus—a poem written very late in his. EX-SENATOR JAMES W. BRADBURY, OE MAINE. own life, and one that has the ripeness and mel-lowness that cliaracterized his last poems : Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to learned Greek at eighty ; SophoclesWrote his grand CEdipus, and SimonidesBore off all the prize of verse from his compeers,When each had numbered more than fourscore years ;And Theophrastus. at fourscore and ten,Had but begun his Character of Men;Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales,At sixty wiote the Canterbury Tales ;Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,Completed Faust when eighty years were are indeed exceptions ; but they showHow far the gulf-stream of our youth may flowInto the arctic regions of our lives,Where little else than life itself survives. It is not my purpose, however, to dwell on tlieauthors who have recently completed their work,but to give some pen-stroke pictures of thosewho are now working beyond the Scripturalbound of threescore and ten. To
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