Evert Augustus Duyckinck His Life Writings And Influence A Memoir Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Evert Augustus Duyckinck, His Life, Writings and Influence: A Memoir Come what come may, Time and the hour run through the roughest day.' With these literary labors Mr. Duyckinck united constant ser vices for the public good, and as a member and for years the DO mestic Corresponding Secretary of the New York Historical Society, as Trustee of Columbia College, and in his connection with parish Offices and with various movements in behalf of culture and patri otism, he filled his days with good works to the last. To those who in his later years had the privilege of seeing him quietly in the rear third story room of N o. 20 Clinton Place, when his growing infirmity kept him from going up and down stairs, ' there are cher ished remembrances of the man and his words. Sometimes he was at Work critically upon the text of Shakspeare, and again he was busy with his favorite bible, a polyglot, in which he was espe cially fond of reading the Greek text. At times he was a great suf ferer and spent whole nights without sleep, yet he was gentle and uncomplaining, and he told an intimate friend Shortly before his death, that he was ready to die, and he wished to live only to save his wife and the mother of his children who had all gone, the pain of utter loneliness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.