Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781419138263
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: Elsewhere we literary folk are apt to be such a common lot, with tendencies here and there to be a shabby lot; we arrive from all sorts of unexpected holes and corners of the earth, remote, obscure; and at the best we do so often come up out of the ground; but at Boston we were of ascertained and noted origin, and good part of us dropped from the skies.