 I was beginning to speak of the famous poets I knew when Garfield stopped me with "Just a minute!" He ran down into the grassy space, first to one fence and then to the other at the sides, and waved a wild arm of invitation to the neighbors who were also...  Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America - Page 26by Joan Shelley Rubin - 2009 - 488 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Dean Howells - Literary Criticism - 1916 - 256 pages
...sides, and waved a wild arm of invitation to the neighbors who were also sitting on their back porches. "Come over here!" he shouted. "He's telling about...whistled round, and the hours drew toward midnight. The neighbors must have been professors in the Eclectic Institute of Hiram where Garfield himself had... | |
 | Theodore Clarke Smith - 1925 - 648 pages
...sides, and waved a wild arm of invitation to the neighbors who were also sitting on their back porches. 'Come over here!' he shouted. 'He's telling about...whippoorwills whirred and whistled round and the hours drew towards midnight. The neighbors must have been professors in the Eclectic Institute of Hiram where... | |
 | Allan Nevins - United States - 1927 - 518 pages
...sides, and waved a wild arm of invitation to the neighbors who were also sitting on their back porches. 'Come over here!' he shouted. 'He's telling about...mount the fences and follow him up to his veranda." l All of the West settled by New England stock sat at the feet of these writers with especial fervor;... | |
 | Philip Weeks - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 300 pages
...sides, and waved a wild arm of invitation to the neighbors who were also sitting in their back porches. "He's telling about Holmes, and Longfellow, and Lowell,...whistled round, and the hours drew toward midnight. The neighbors must have been professors in the Eclectic Institute of Hiram where Garfield himself had... | |
 | Carl Rollyson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 161 pages
...sides, and waved a wild arm of invitation to the neighbors who were also sitting on their back porches. "Come over here!" he shouted. "He's telling about...to his veranda. "Now go on!" he called to me, when were all seated, and I went on, while the whippoorwills whirred and whistled round, and the hours drew... | |
 | John Shaw - Presidents' spouses - 2004 - 148 pages
...and Lowell, and Whittier!" he shouted excitedly. The neighbors soon joined the family, and Howells went on "while the whippoorwills whirred and whistled round, and the hours drew toward midnight." "I do not see how a sweeter homage," Howells wrote, "could have been paid to the great renowns I was... | |
 | Carl Rollyson - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 301 pages
...sides, and waved a wild arm of invitation to the neighbors who were also sitting on their back porches. "Come over here!" he shouted. "He's telling about...to his veranda. "Now go on!" he called to me, when were all seated, and I went on, while the whippoorwhills whirred and whistled round, and the hours... | |
 | Paul F. Boller - Amusements - 2007 - 444 pages
...sides and waved a wild arm of invitation to the neighbors who were also sitting on their back porches. 'Come over here,' he shouted. 'He's telling about...all seated, and I went on, while the whippoorwills whirled and whistled round, and the hours drew towards midnight."4 Garfield always seemed to be reading.... | |
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