Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-04-01
HERE AND THERE

entleman of literary tastes and culture the
ther day, ~ am always glad to remember
hat Longfellow wrote There was little girl
\nd she had a little curl, &c.;' and that
who was devotedly fond of chill
lren, was tho author of the lines, 'There
nee was a nice little girl, With nice little
osy face, &C. Clement q. Moore, who
wrote "A Visit from St Nicholas beginning
Twas the night before Christmas made a
speciality of Hebrew study, and was long
lime Greek and Hebrew professor in the
general theological seminary Of the Episcopal
church. Edward Everett's You'd scarce
expect one of my age, To speak in public on |
the stage will be remembered and recited |
when many of the stately orations that are |
in his works will have been |
forgotten" Right, about all but Everett
II wasn't Edward Everett who wrote
those memorable lines. Their author was
David Everett the political editor, who wrote
for the Farmers Museum, edited the Boston
Patriot and Pilot, dipped into poetry and
the drama, was graduate of Dartmouth and
a member of the bar. But IL was before he
engaged in all this, and when a teacher In the
grammar school at New Ipswich, that he
wrote the lines which have survived so many
more pretentious compositions. They were
written for one of his pupils, Ephraim Far
rar, and were preserved in Caleb Bingham's
"Columbian Orator." which was the stand
ard of its kind for many day, and furnished
models to two generations of orators.
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Edward Everett claimed relationship with
David, and considered il an honor to have
had the authorship OF the lines ascribed to
him. When he himself was "A little boy, four
years old, he recited in public some verses of
a similar character written expressly for him
by Thaddeus Mason Harris. They begin:
Pray how should l, little lad,
In speaking make figure?
You're only joking I'm afraid,
Do wait till am bigger.
In one of his poems this same Harris refers
to an early cremation, at a time when that
ceremony was performed in Difference to q
superstition rather than in defiance of it.
1t was an actual occurrence, at Ballston, that
a parent eXhumed the remains of his daugh-
ter and burned them to provide charm for
the health of her sisters
~
Berkeley's famous lines Westward the
course mot StGrl of empire takes
its way" were not always as famil-
lar as now. Long years after they
were written, some one Of literary dis
elimination set them out in relief When
Berkeley came over here he was only dean
of Derry ; he shipped for the Bermudas, on
his honeymoon trip with his bride, to found
a college there to fit out missionaries for the
| redemption of the Indians. He landed at.
Newport X. l., ana became generous
patron Oh tne struggling cause Oh aIts ana let
DE, m NJ GaliI,,a ,h si'a,, t,,at nc
| snbsennentlv sent over 10 them because they
| piouslv believed that an organ was an in
| strunent of the devil for the entrapping o
meu's souls" But the instrument found 9
| landing place elsewhere and the praises of God
are still sounded through its pipes. Berkeley
later as bishop OF Cloyne, wrote poetry, anC
| challenged the attention Of science and so
ciety by his earnest disssrta,'"''s "a. '!s0 ''s&
| nary ana curative properties OF tar wateI
| NSarly hunured years peiofe nun Ceorg
Herbert had predicted the westward pro
gress OF religion:
Religion stands on tip-toe ID our land =
heaoy 70 Pass 70 .hc AIlleilcai' strand,
Anu ,, !, mas s'i,io 3o, "h1So % ha,ie Is ios
Rerk "Iev wrSte '' ''''' ''"s ''1''
Tho roS,.,r nation, s,nk ,noir ,,ory, and
And empire rises where the sun descends.
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When Benjamin Franklin came to Lancas
| ter in 1857 to lay the corner stone Of Frankli
| college he was accompanied by Hector 81
| John Crevec9ur, a noble French pentlem an
who came over here before the Revolutior
| ,,arr;oa oottIod nu e., ,,,,a.s,,o,
t.S,...to on i' "oi
many Vlcissituues ana returned TO France
|
in 1852 he published his "Letters from a
| American Farmer which attracted wild
attention in literary circles and induce
emigration to America He came haclx ,
find his house burned and his wi,
dead, but he remained Tn euiov bip
honors from Washington and other men
distinction who appreciated his benevoler
and amiable disposition. He returned agai
TO France and added 10 his literary reput
ton 10y new works on America. One Of tn
most sprightly and interesting chapters OF h
books is a narrative of Franklin's talk du
ing the evening they spent in Lancaste
when the sage discoursed at length in answe
| to some Lancastrians, who questioned him
to his views of the American aborigine
their origin and their habits.
-.
"These are the times that try mems souls
, is the first line of Tom paine,s Revolntionar p
tract on mrbo Crsis >, ,,t,ior ,,,as ,,ri,,o,,
t,, v,t,o ul i'.'', "ii'.i "a1 ~" iI.ton'
VIII renie'iiDei' III Lancaster "heh helooge
at william Henry's.
~
, Robert Treat Paine, sgner of the Decla
/ of of bnn oh
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