Homer Martin, a Reminiscence: October 28, 1836 February 12, 1897 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Homer Martin, a Reminiscence: October 28, 1836 February 12, 1897

Martin's landscapes look as if no one but God and himself had ever seen the places. There is an austerity, a remoteness, a cer tain savagery in even the sunniest and most peaceful of them, which were also in him, and an instinctive perception of which had made me say to him in the very earliest days of our acquaintance that he reminded me of Ishmael. They formed, I think, the sub stratum of his personality. Needless to add, for those who knew him even slightly, that he had other phases. Though the human verb in him was one and singular, its moods were many.

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Excerpt from Homer Martin, a Reminiscence: October 28, 1836 February 12, 1897

Dispute the statement as an abstract propo sition. But when it is followed by the di rect question: Who so capable of writing it as you? The names of one or two of his personal friends inevitably present them selves as belonging to practised writers and connoisseurs of art, who might, perhaps, need the aid of dates or facts I could sup ply, but who, in more essential respects, would be altogether better equipped for the task. Homer Martin was so intensely mas culine, so preeminently a man's man, that he must necessarily have escaped thorough comprehension by any woman. And this, I think, is the chief reason why I have so long delayed, why I am even now inclined to Shirk altogether, the fulfilment of my.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.