The time must come when this coast will be a place of resort for those New-Englanders who really wish to visit the seaside. At pre...sent it is wholly unknown to the fashionable world, and probably it will never be agreeable to them. If it is merely a ten-pin alley, or a circular railway, or an ocean of mint-julep, that the visitor is in search of,--if he thinks more of the wine than the brine, as I suspect some do at Newport,--I trust that for a long time he will be disappointed here. But this shore will never more be more attractive than it is now. Such beaches as are fashionable are here made and unmade in a day, I may almost say, by the sea shifting its sands. Lynn and Nantasket! this bare and bended arm it is that makes the bay in which they lie so snugly. What are springs and waterfalls? Here is the spring of springs, the waterfall of waterfalls. A storm in the fall or winter is the time to visit it; a lighthouse or fisherman's hut, the true hotel. A man may stand there and put all America behind him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The menu was stewed liver and rice, fricassee of bones, and shredded dog biscuit. The dinner was greatly appreciated; the guests a...te until they could eat no more, and Elisha Dyer's dachshund so overtaxed its capacities that it fell unconscious by its plate and had to be carried home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fashion required the suppression of all naturalness--'to walk upright, with unbending joints; to shake hands after the pump- handl...e formula; to look inexpressibly indifferent towards everybody and everything; and speak only in a mincing voice was to be a decorous member of society.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, during his daily walk, he met any children flying kites, playing marbles, or whirling peg tops, he would buy the toys from the...m and exhort them not to gamble or indulge in vain sport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And all the great traditions of the Past They saw reflected in the coming time....
And thus forever with reverted look The mystic volume of the world they read, Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book, Till life became a Legend of the Dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pride and humiliation hand in hand Walked with them through the world where'er they went;... Trampled and beaten were they as the sand, And yet unshaken as the continent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes. ...For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »