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Search - Dreams And Reveries Of A Quiet Man - Consisting Of The Little Genius, And Other Essays

Dreams And Reveries Of A Quiet Man Consisting Of The Little Genius And Other Essays
Author: Theodore S. Fay

MY DEAR SIR, To GEORGE P. MORRIS, ESQ. IN dedicating thesevolumes to you, I obey the dictates of a friendship which a close and constant intimacy of many years has only confirmed and strengthened. If the light sketches now offered to the public in this form not without a tremulous feeling, possess any merit, I cannot forget that but for your enc... more »ouragement and liberality they never would have been written. Many indeed, more worthy than I, have experienced the benefit of your unwavering exertions to employ talent already established and to infuse confidence into the timid and inexperienced. That your literary career may be as successful, as your talents are marked, and your private life is benevolent and irreproachable, is the very ardent wish of, New York, June 2, 1832, My dear sir, Very affectionately and sincerely, Your friend and obedient servant, M1785ISG THE AUTHOR. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Essays were composed at various inter- vals since the year 1823, and have appeared in theNew- York Mirror, under the signatures of SEDLEY, F., c.. The numbers of the Little Genius signed D., were written by the author of quotHoward s Essays on Impri sonment for Debt,quot and were also originally published in the Mirror. CONTENTS Little Genius, No. I. No. II. No. III. ----- - 5 9 No. IV. - 14 No. V. 19 No. VI. 23 No. VII. 29 No. VIII. 34 No. IX. 38 No. X. No. XL - - .-- - - - 45 49 No. XII. 54 No. XIII.- - - - - . 59 Notes by a - -quot- . Traveller, -. 61 Old ------ - s Letters, 69 quot quot Eating, 74 , - Musical - - - - Mania, 79 Dramatic Improbabilities, - - - . - - 85 Thomas Addis Emmet, The Careless Man, - - - .... - 93 - - - Consumption, -.,quot 98 Glances at the Drama, 104 The Neat - Man, ... - - - 108 Sad - - - - - - Recollections, -113 Glances at the - - - - - - Drama, 118 Spring and the First of May, ----- 124 Rural - Tranquillity, 127 Letter to an - - - - - - Editor, -132 Matrimonial Felicity, 134 - Curiosity, 141 The - - - - - Whipped Schoolboy, 143 Riot at the Park Theatre, 146 - Reading Aloud, 151 Great Coats and ------ Hats, 155 - - - - - - Poetry, 158 One ofthe - - - - - - Cognoscenti, 162 - - - - - Family Government, -166 Reading, Modern Dictionary, 177 90 Vlll. CONTENTS. PAGB. Sketches byan Editor, 179 The - Toothache, 183 Sketch by a Man of Fifty, 188 Letter from a Barber, 193 Extracts from a Journal, ------ 195 A Tragical Story, 200 Pain of Living Creatures, ----- 202 Choosing a Subject - - - - - - - 206 quot Pride of - Profession, V- - - - - 210 Pronunciation, - -, .quot.- , . - 212 quot Politeness to - - - - - - Females, 215 THE LITTLE GENIUS. NUMBER I. Take my word for it, tis anhonest ghost. Hamlet. Is there any person in the worldwhodoubts that spirits of the air can assume a visible shape, and communi cate viva voce with us poor mortals of the earth Did not Cicero in one age, and Petrarch in another, receive supernatural information of the death of a distant friend Did not a spirit inform Caesar s wife that she must tell Cajsar if he attended the senate on the ides of March, he would be killed And is there any body in this city who iias not heard of the little old man who appeared toM S.W , Esq., ofthis city, attorney at law, and informed him of an event which at the same moment happened at a distance of more than twenty miles and as soon as he had delivered his message, vanished through the key hole into thin air No one therefore need to doubt me when I declare that I have lately seen a ghost, who has not only talked to me, but walked with me, and told me such things, and showed me such sights, as without supernatural intelligence, I never could have known...

ISBN-13: 9781406784206
ISBN-10: 1406784206
Publication Date: 10/9/2007
Pages: 228
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