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EVERT AUGUSTUS DUYCKINCK HIS L
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Evert Augustus Duyckinck, His Life, Writings and Influence: A Memoir (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Evert Augustus Duyckinck, His Life, Writings and Influence: A Memoir As to the quality of his work, there can be but one Opinion so far as fineness of taste and purity of sentiment and conscientious labor are concerned. That he had not more of the dash and fire that are so essential to the new and successful writers of our day, we may ascribe to his temperament and to his time. His temper was gentle and his habit was sedentary and meditative, and to him Art appeared more as a ministry of beauty than as an utterance of force. He lived a somewhat secluded life, almost wholly in his city home; and a rustic hermit like Thoreau, who was born the year after him, 1817, and a dashing ro...
Evert Augustus Duyckinck
Excerpt from Evert Augustus Duyckinck: A Memorial Sketch Read Before the New York Historical Society, January 7, 1879 In attempting a sketch of the life and literary labors of our late associate, Evert A. Duyckinck, I dismiss, at the outset, any misgivings as to the degree of general interest attaching to a career whose daily course came so little under public observation, and whose chosen aims were so far removed from the ordinary pursuits of men. At first thought the life of a scholar and man of letters, passed chiefly among his books, and marked by an avoidance of society and a withdrawal from the world, presents few points of attraction, and may seem to furnish little material for even a...
