Amsterdam (Classic Reprint): A Poem - Couverture souple

Sprague, Horace

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1334384266 ISBN 13 : 9781334384264

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A lyrical portrait of a bygone Dutch–American village, where memory and community shape the present.

This edition gathers a poetic and historical look at Amsterdam, New York, in the 19th century. It blends tribute, local detail, and reflection to illuminate civic life, neighborhood bonds, and the people who shaped the town’s character. Read as a reflective, accessible portrait that invites you to see ordinary life as a meaningful part of history.

Through verse and prose, the book traces how a community cared for its churches, schools, trades, and public spaces. It offers a window into everyday life, shared memory, and the enduring connections that bind neighbors across generations.

• Vivid scenes of 19th-century Amsterdam life and its social fabric
• Character sketches and community milestones woven with historical context
• Poems and commentary that celebrate place, memory, and civic commitment
• Accessible language that invites reflection on local heritage

Ideal for readers interested in local history, community life, and lyrical portraits of American towns.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Without any pretension to liigh poetic excellence, without hoping for these reminiscences more thnn a local interest, the Author gives this brief Poem to the public, at the request of his friends and former pupils in A msterdam, relying on their indulgence to overlook defects, and if they find any thing erroneous or offensive, to forgive it. To weave these pleasant memories of other years into verse, was the work of a season of painful confinement by sickness, and served to lighten its heavy hours, and to waken grateful emotions to I lim who had so mercifully kept his footsteps through lifes various changes. The writer of this article ventures to add to the notes appended to (his Poem, a brief sketch respecting one, whose labors during many years of ardent and devoted service, have not been exceeded by those of any other individual in forming the character of the inhabitants of this village, to say nothing of the many who have borne the fruits of his intellectual and moral training into other fields of Kbor. Horace Sphague was born in Mayfiold, in the then county of Montgomery, N. Y., August 1, 1798. He came to Amsterdam in 1821, where he continued in the business of teaching, most of the timo in the A cademy, till 1838. A record of the many young men he fitted for College, and for the active business of life, and of the young ladies trained for the spheres they have been called to oecup ,would form an interesting chajjter in our local statistics. The faithful teacher, in holding a firm but salutary check over the waywardness of youth, necessarily encounters, sometimes, the opposition of the undisciplined will. But there are few instances where the reflection and experience of maturer years will not satisfy him that the restrictions, or it may be tho correction, which, at the time, he deemed severe, was in accordance with the law of kindness. Mr. Spraguo was
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334384266
• ISBN 13: 9781334384264
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 51
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