Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Horace E. Scudder commenced yesterday a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute on "Childhood in Literature...
...Childhood's fleeting smiles...
...childhood's cherished hopes are flown...
...child was, though she was smiling at me from the sweetest eyes in the world. Since that very first day, when I came to the house, pale and feeble, she had devoted herself very closely to me, - thoughtful and tender always, with the naive thoughtfulness and tenderness of unspoiled childhood. The keen sea air works marvels with flesh and blood, I know; but it may have been partly her devotion that had restored me so quickly. A strong feeling of regard for the child had grown up within me; perhaps it was because I had never known what...
First I dreamed thee, in the May of childhood...