Identifier: portraitgalleryo02duyc (find matches)
Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
Subjects: Biography Portraits
Publisher: New York : Johnson, Wilson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Seems as, to me, of all bereft.Sole friend thy woods and streams are left;And thus I love them better still,Even in extremity of ill. That extremity came in the au-tumn of 1861, when the Prince Con-sort, having returned in October fromBalmoral, had visited the Prince ofWales, then a student at the Univer-sity of Cambridge, and was passinghis time in his usual employments atWindsor; though not in his usual ro-bust health, yet freely exposing him-self to the inclemencies of the season.One day, about the beginning of De-cember, he reviewed a volunteer corpsof Eton boys in a heavy rain, and leftthe ground suffering from a feverishcold. The symptoms gradually grewworse, and, on the thirteenth, assumeda dangerous character. The Princewas prostrated by a typhoid fever, andraj)idly sank under it, dying the nextday. That event has colored thewhole of the Queens later life. Ithas thrown her much into retirement;and when she appears in public, sheseems ever to be accompanied by thisgreat sorrow.
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\j(^_c^^^^ VV. o<(xW%_q^/(xLjux^ HENRY WADSV/ORTH LONGFELLOV^T. THE biography of a poet Is, in gen-eral, little more tlian an inventoryof his writings. He is a man whoseworld is within, who must have quietto write, and whose genius tempts himto perpetuate the quiet which he finds.Seldom a man of action, his migrationsare of little more importance to theAvorld at large, save through his writ-ings, than those of the Vicar of Wake-field, from the blue bed to the brown.Mr Longfellow, the po2:)ular poet ofEngland and America at this time, isno exception to the rule. The in-cidents of his life are mainly to befound in the record of his mentalemotions in his books. There is mat-ter abundant and voluble enough, butthe narrative belongs rather to thecritic thant he biographei. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wasborn at Portland, Maine, February 27,1807. His father, the Hon. Stej)henLongfellow, was alawyer of distinction,a man of influence, highly esteemed byhis contemporaries. The son was sentto

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