. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. s literary labors, he yet went forward with his active employment,and six years later he issued the the next year the Odyssey, bein
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. s literary labors, he yet went forward with his active employment,and six years later he issued the the next year the Odyssey, being translations of Homer into English blank verse. Subsequently he edited various important publications, and madevarious public addresses, prominent among them being one on theoccasion of the dedication of the statue of Professor Morse, at CentralPark, New York, in 1871, and on a similar occasion on the life andservices of Scott and Shakspearc. in 1873. With a literary career so long and nobly rounded out. Bryant diedJune 12, 1878, being between eighty-three and eighty-four yearsold at the time of his death: there being in that time seventy-fouryears in any period of which his pen could write that which wasworthy of preservation for future generations to read. It is dilHcult to designate the best of his poems. Thanatopsis,one of his earliest written, is excellent, and the Snow-Shower,is very true to nature. i :cr -9 WILLIAM V. JiKYANT S HOME. ;iT. Stanza from Thanatopsis. So live, that when thy puininoiiH comes to joinThe inniimtTJible caravan that movesTo the pak realms of shade, where each nhall takeHis chaniher in the silent halls (jf go, n<Jt like the quarry-.«lave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but. sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy graveLike one wlto wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. William Cttllen Bryant.
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