That legend of the ‘poor, unknown German musician’ who composed in poverty and secrecy the deathless songs that have obsessed the world of music lovers, has been told of numberless young composers on their way to fame, but died out in the blaze of their later work.
This quote reflects on the myth of the struggling artist, suggesting that such narratives often fade as the artist achieves recognition.
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Thus, restricted to the South, it came to represent in the Southern mind a “right” which the South was bound to defend.
If you carry him off a prisoner he will be exchanged back into the fighting line, and we make nothing by it.
Men took their politics, as their liquor, “straight”; and this father of mine was an undoubting Democrat of the schools of Jefferson and Jackson.
But McKinley’s doing was the crowning stroke of union and peace.
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