Authors and friends by Fields Annie 1834-1915

Author:Fields, Annie, 1834-1915
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896, Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894, Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892, Tennyson, Emily Sellwood Tennyson, Baroness, 1813-1896, Authors, American, Authors, English
Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co

ten Her knowledge of the flowers, and espe cially of the seaweeds, with which she decorated it, was so exact that she did not require the originals before her vision. They were painted upon her mind's eye, where every filament and every shade seemed to be recorded. These green " growing things " had been the beloved companions of her childhood, as they continued to be of her womanhood, and even to repro duce their forms in painting was a delight to her. The written descriptions of natural ob jects give her history a place among the pages which possess a perennial existence. While White's " Selborne," and the pictures of Be wick, and Thoreau's " Walden," and the " Auto biography of Richard Jefferies " endure, so long will "Among the Isles of Shoals" hold its place with all lovers of nature. She says in one place, "All the pictures over which I dream are set in this framework of the sea, that sparkled and sang, or frowned and threat ened, in the ages that are gone as it does to-day."

The solitude of Celia Thaxter's childhood, which was not solitude, surrounded as she was with the love of a father and a mother, all ten derness, and brothers dear to her as her own life, developed in the child strange faculties. She was five years old when the family left Portsmouth, — old enough, given her inborn power of enjoyment of nature, to delight in the

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