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To the cult of the birthplaces of famous men must be added that of their graves, and, in the case of Petrarch, of the spot where he died. In memory of him Arqua became a favorite resort of the Paduans, and was dotted with graceful little villas. At this time there were no 'classic spots' in Northern Europe, and pilgrimages were only made to pictures and relics.
No better field for beggary in all Manhattan's bounteous acreage. But the dummy-chucker shook his head and shuffled ever westward. These were good souls, but they thought in cents. Worse than that, they translated their financial thoughts into the pitiful coinage of their birthplaces. And in the pocket of the dummy-chucker rested a silver dollar.
I dismiss you, but assemble again when next the dreary winter is past and the genial sun warms the buds into leaflets when the upland rills have found their voices once more, and come leaping from their hidden birthplaces." The gentle summer had passed, the winter had again come and gone, and the troops were gathering in response to the command of their mistress. They had been industrious.
Stretches of the Avenue Fourteenth to Madison Square From Brevoort to Spingler The Story of Sir Peter Warren The First City Hospital The Paternoster Row of New-York Former Homes and Birthplaces Lower Fifth Avenue Residents in the Fifties Blocks of Departed Glories The Centre of the Universe Madison Square in Colonial Days Franconi's Hippodrome The Opening of the Fifth Avenue Hotel A Thanksgiving Day of the Nineties Monuments of the Square The Garden, the Presbyterian Church, and the Metropolitan Tower The Face of the Clock.
I gave a dinner-party at an hotel to eleven people, all officers or officers' wives. The conversation turned on birthplaces, and the answers given were so curious, that I wrote them all down. Not only were all my guests soldiers and soldiers' wives, but they were nearly all the sons and daughters of soldiers as well. One major had been born at Cape Town; his very comely wife in Barbados.
Another proof of the mythical character of Gladstone is the number of his birthplaces. Many cities claimed the honour of being his cradle, exactly as in the cases of Apollo and Irving. Their claims were allowed by the Deity.
They were of many birthplaces Austria, Holland, Poland, Russia, Germany, Italy, Spain yet felt themselves of no country and of one. Encircled by the splendors of modern Babylon, their hearts turned to the East, like passion-flowers seeking the sun.
The imperial city itself had never been the source of great intellectual achievement, and the men whom we think of as important contributors to Rome's literature and philosophy were usually not born within the confines of the city. It is surprising to take a list of the names of the Latin writers whom we are accustomed to set down simply as Romans and note their birthplaces.
Little did Bennie think at one time that people would some day come from all quarters of the United States to see him and take him kindly by the hand and say that they were well acquainted with his folks when they were poor. These various birthplaces prove to us what style is best calculated for a presidential candidate.
Athens also claims to be one of the birthplaces of Homer, that good old blind poet. Robert Strong talked quite a good deal about his poems, the Iliad and the Odyssy or the return of Ulysses Odysses to his native land. Josiah paid great attention to it, and afterwards he confided to me that he thought of writin' a Jodyssy or the return of Josiah to Jonesville.
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