. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . thehub of the solar sys-tem, and in his heartbelieved it. But does not livein the past. His youth was splendid, ^^^^^F ja^ but his old age is ^^^^^ ^ glorious. He haslived with the centuryas it grew from theage of nine to ninety-three, and has heldhis own with it. Hehas grown in literarystrength with what a mar\el-lous versatility of tal-ent ! By virtue ofhis apt response tothe instant call, andof the wit, wisdomand conviction, andthe sc
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . thehub of the solar sys-tem, and in his heartbelieved it. But does not livein the past. His youth was splendid, ^^^^^F ja^ but his old age is ^^^^^ ^ glorious. He haslived with the centuryas it grew from theage of nine to ninety-three, and has heldhis own with it. Hehas grown in literarystrength with what a mar\el-lous versatility of tal-ent ! By virtue ofhis apt response tothe instant call, andof the wit, wisdomand conviction, andthe scholarly polishthat re legate hislightest productions to the select domain of art, he is the Dean of American occasional poets. A perfect phantasmagory of songs,odes and rhymed addresses; poems on collegiate andcivic occasions ; tributes to princes, embassies, generals,heroes; welcomes to novelists and poets; eulogies ofthe dead; verses inaugural and dedicatory; stanzasread at literary breakfasts. New England dinners, muni-cipal and bucolic feasts ; odes natal, nuptial and mort-uary ; metrical delectations offered to his brothers of. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. the medical craft,— to which he is so loyal,—bristlingwith scorn of quackery and challenge to opposing sys-tems ; not only equal to all occasions, but growing betterwith their increase. A kind of special masterhood, anindi\iduality, humor, touch, seems to have carried himthrough all this, and much more besides, and to havegiven him pre-eminence in a field the most arduous andleast attractive to a poet. But Dr. Holmes is more thana poet, he is a philosopher, —a kind of attenuated Frank-lin, viewing m e nand things with lessrobustness, perhaps,but with keener dis-tinction and is too high ortoo low for his perti-nent comment. Hismaxims, in his writ-ings and in his con-versation, are so fre-quent that it seemsas if he had jottedthem down from timeto time, and herefirst brought them toapplication. Theyare apoth
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