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" And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all, — at least, till I were in my grave. "
Supplement to the Courant - Page 16
1862
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 21

1868 - 798 pages
...have been despondent And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner,...it seemed as if I were already in the grave, with onlylife enough to be chilled and benumbed. But oftener I was happy, — at least, as happy as I then...
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Aspects of Authorship: Or, Book Marks and Book Makers

Francis Jacox - 1872 - 514 pages
...were formed. . . . And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner,...me at all, — at least, till I were in my grave." He may be taken to have been drawing again on his own experience when, in another of his books, he...
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Aspects of Authorship: Or, Book Marks and Book Makers

Francis Jacox - 1872 - 530 pages
...were formed. . . . And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all,—at least, till I were in my grave." He may be taken to have been drawing again on his own experience...
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Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

Samuel Adams Drake - 1875 - 478 pages
...been despondent. And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner,...me at all — at least, till I were in my grave." It is not my purpose to attempt a description of Salem~, or of what is to he seen there. Her merchants...
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Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

Samuel Adams Drake - 1875 - 480 pages
...been despondent. And here I sat a long, long time, waitO ing patiently for the world toknow me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner,...me at all — at least, till I were in my grave." It is not my purpose to attempt a description of Salem, or of what is to be seen there. Her merchants...
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Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

Samuel Adams Drake - 1875 - 482 pages
...have been despondent. And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world toknow me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all — at 1 least, till I were in my grave." It is not my purpose to attempt a description of Salem, or of what...
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Hawthorne

Henry James - 1879 - 206 pages
...been despondent. And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner,...at least till I were in my grave. And sometimes it seems to me as if I were already in the grave, with only life enough to be chilled and benumbed. But...
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Hawthorne

Henry James - 1879 - 210 pages
...whether it would ever know me at all — -at least till I were in my grave. And sometimes it seems to me as if I were already in the grave, with only life enough to be chilled and benumbed. But ofteuer I was happy — at least as happy as I then knew how to be, or was aware of the possibility...
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Historical Sketch of Salem, 1626-1879

Charles Stuart Osgood, Henry Morrill Batchelder - 1879 - 372 pages
...character were formed ; and here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would over know me at nil — at least till I were in my grave." Some years later ho published " The Scarlet...
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Twice-told tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 560 pages
...he says of it : " And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all." 1 See vol. 1 1 of this edition. The Herbert Street house was habitually referred to by the members...
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