Elegant extracts : or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected for the improvement of young persons: being similar in design to Elegant extracts in poetry . ese well-stocked bookcases was one of hischief diversions. Absorbed insome interesting volume, he wouldsit for hours in the rear parloror in the passageway up-stairsv/here some of the books were kept,wholly oblivious of the rompingand chatter of Bob and Emilie andthe other little Todds. But the book that Lincoln readmore than all the rest was avolume of verse entitled ElegantExtracts, or Useful and EntertainingPassages from the
Elegant extracts : or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected for the improvement of young persons: being similar in design to Elegant extracts in poetry . ese well-stocked bookcases was one of hischief diversions. Absorbed insome interesting volume, he wouldsit for hours in the rear parloror in the passageway up-stairsv/here some of the books were kept,wholly oblivious of the rompingand chatter of Bob and Emilie andthe other little Todds. But the book that Lincoln readmore than all the rest was avolume of verse entitled ElegantExtracts, or Useful and EntertainingPassages from the best EnglishAuthors and Translations,1 and hemarked or underscored heavily witha lead pencil such of these poems,or excerpts thBEefrom, as particularlystruck his fancy. He committedBryant1s Tnanatopsis to memory andrepeated it to members of the (See Townsend1s Lincoln and HisWifes Home Town, page 156). H. E. Barker Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant \ «W \^ x^~-X J -S S °.|TT -Aelegantextractso00knox. 8
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