Lemuel Arthur Pittenger > Quotes

“On the Water, he gives a confession of a purely sensual man: "How gladly, at times, I would think no more, feel no more, live the life of a brute, in a warm, bright country, in a yellow country, without crude and”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“reading regularly some of the better”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“because Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia, and she is too old. You cannot reform a lady of many lovers, and Asia has been insatiable in her flirtations aforetime. She will never attend Sunday school, or learn to vote save with swords for tickets.”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“Any student who wishes to express himself correctly and pleasingly, and desires a keener sense for the appreciation of literary work must write.”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“conceded to be the best in French literature. He handles his materials with great care, and his descriptions of scenes and characters are unequalled. In his first writings he seems impassive to the point of frigidity. He is a recorder who sets down exactly the life”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“spiritual”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“My earthly senses are closing over my spirit like the leaves around the heart of a rose at sunset.”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“our ancestors have told stories of war, love, mysteries, and the miraculous performances of lower animals and inanimate objects.”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“From the first use of speech, no doubt, our ancestors have told stories of war, love, mysteries, and the miraculous performances of lower animals and inanimate objects.”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“must not be concealed, however, that the impression wrought by this fairy sign-manual varied exceedingly according to the difference of temperament in the beholders. Some fastidious persons—but they were exclusively of her own sex—affirmed that the bloody hand, as they chose to call it, quite destroyed the effect of Georgiana's beauty and rendered her countenance even hideous. But it would be as reasonable to say that one of those small blue stains which sometimes occur”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“about his realistic observations, however, is that his notes, whether written about California or India, are often repudiated by the people whom he has visited. After visiting England and the United States in a vain effort to find a publisher for his writings, he returned to India and published in the Pioneer his American Notes, which were immediately”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories

“good”
― Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, Short-Stories