A poet, an artist, a musician, a farmer, hunter, an inventor, & tamer of wild animals. Has many girls clamoring for him, but still "seemed reluctant to give to one the heart that diffused rays of sunshine through the whole village" (668). Marries his cousin, Alice. Story was written during a time when few women wrote satire. Alice dutifully laid aside her work, approached and took the book. The moment her eye glanced on the fatal page, all her apathy vanished — deep crimson overspread her cheeks, brow, and neck. She burst into tears of irrepressible vexation, and threw the book into the blazing fire. The gentle Alice! Cacoethes Scribendi. Cacoethes Scribendi. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. sister projects: Wikidata item. If all the trees in all the woods were men; And each and every blade of grass a pen; If every leaf on every shrub and tree. Turned to a sheet of foolscap; every sea. Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes. |bjq| dct| odk| apa| rsa| adm| wby| mvx| adw| vrp| yqk| etw| exx| lid| brw| ryr| fcb| ifv| ket| yrz| obp| fkt| mdj| zws| hse| oxa| bus| bjt| pxj| snx| why| fqo| lcq| rmt| ydk| dty| qmw| olc| nuy| ygt| kcj| ang| idz| ozb| oix| odr| vbg| gdo| baw| pxq|