| University of South Carolina - 1905 - 294 pages
...commemorates in his oration at the Semi-Centennial celebration of the College, December 4, 1854, as "the youth instinct with great ideas, the scholar, the bard, the genius of the school." Among the patriotic services which will keep the memory of Chancellor Harper forever green, he prepared,... | |
| William Draper Lewis - Judges - 1907 - 636 pages
...semi-centennial oration at the college, reviewing the lives of some of the men of his day, says of him: But the youth instinct with great ideas, the scholar,...I describe thee, William Harper! Careless, simple, negligent, he lived apart in the world of his own genius. His imagination brought all things human... | |
| George Armstrong Wauchope - American literature - 1910 - 444 pages
...character, and though his plume was not destined to wave in the battle's storm and the fortune of war confined his service to a barren field, yet no more...remains. How shall I describe thee, William Harper? Carelss, simple and negligent, he lived apart in the world of his own genius — his imagination brought... | |
| James Louis Petigru, James Petigru Carson - Lawyers - 1920 - 552 pages
...character, and though his plume was not destined to wave in the battle's storm and the fortune of war confined his service to a barren field, yet no more...thee, William Harper? Careless, simple and negligent, he lived apart in the world of his own genius—his imagination brought all things human and divine... | |
| James Louis Petigru, James Petigru Carson - Lawyers - 1920 - 552 pages
...war confined his service to a barren field, yet no more devoted son rallied to the flag,underwhich he would have been proud to die for his country. Nor...thee, William Harper? Careless, simple and negligent, he lived apart in the world of his own genius — his imagination brought all things human and divine... | |
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