. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. ?*. r SCENE ON COUNTRY BROOK and a cheerful optimism pervaded his outlook upon following extract from a letter written in April, 1831,while editing the New England Review^, to a literarylady in New Haven, is in the prevailing tone of what hewrote in the earlier period. This letter has only latelycome into my possession, and is now first quoted : — Disappointment in a thousand ways has gone overmy heart, and left it dust. Yet I still look forward withhigh anticipations. I have placed the goal of my ambi-tions high — but with the blessing of G
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. ?*. r SCENE ON COUNTRY BROOK and a cheerful optimism pervaded his outlook upon following extract from a letter written in April, 1831,while editing the New England Review^, to a literarylady in New Haven, is in the prevailing tone of what hewrote in the earlier period. This letter has only latelycome into my possession, and is now first quoted : — Disappointment in a thousand ways has gone overmy heart, and left it dust. Yet I still look forward withhigh anticipations. I have placed the goal of my ambi-tions high — but with the blessing of God it shall be 44 WMITTIKR-LAND reached. Tlie world has at last breathed into my bosoma portion of ils own bitterness, and I now feel as if Iwould wrestle manfully in the strife of men. If my life isspared, the world shall know me in a loftier capacity than(7S a loritcr of r/iynics. [Tiie italics are his own.] There —is not that boasting.^ — But I have said it with a strongpulse and a swelling heart, and I shall strive to real-ize it.
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