Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. Beers

Author:Henry A. Beers [Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anboco
Published: 2017-01-02T23:00:00+00:00

“He makes invidious, uncharitable, and ill-natured remarks upon authors and their works; all of which he dispatches for the benefit of the reading public of America, and, at the same time that he has thus stabbed them behind their backs, he is requesting to be introduced to them—bowing, smiling, and simpering.” “Although we are well acquainted with the birth, parentage, and history of Mr. Willis, previous to his making his continental tour, we will pass them over in silence; and we think that Mr. Willis will acknowledge that we are generous in so doing.” “It is evident that Mr. Willis has never, till lately, been in good society, either in England or America.”

Finally he exhumed from some quarter the pasquinade of poor Joe Snelling, referred to in our third chapter, from which he printed the following lines by way of showing Willis’s standing at home:—

“Then Natty filled the ‘Statesman’s’ ribald page

With the rank breathings of his prurient age,

And told the world how many a half-bred Miss,

Like Shakspere’s fairy, gave an ass a kiss;

Long did he try the art of sinking on

The muddy pool he took for Helicon;

Long did he delve and grub with fins of lead

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