 FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD. THE subject of this notice was the daughter of the late Joseph Locke, and was a native of Boston, in which city she resided until her marriage with Samuel S. Osgood, an artist of distinction. A noted writer says of her in a critique,...  Foster Genealogy - Page 265by Frederick Clifton Pierce - 1899 - 1081 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - American poetry - 1852 - 516 pages
...for me; Where the pure bright streams, and the mountain wind, And the bounding heart, are free. i5. L FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD. THE subject of this notice...and existence, are one perpetual poem. Not to write poetry—not to think it—act it—dream it, and be it—is entirely out of her power." Her first... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - American poetry - 1855 - 534 pages
...for me ; Where the pure bright streams, and the mountain wind, And the bounding heart, are free. J FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD. THE subject of this notice...not to think it — act it — dream it, and be it — is entirely out of her power." Her first volume, " The Wreath of Wild Flowers," was published in... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 524 pages
...the llth of February, 1856. FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD. THE subject of this notice was the daughter of Joseph Locke, and was a native of Boston, in which...her in a critique, " Her personal not less than her litr erary character aiid existence are one perpetual poem. Not to write poetry—not to think it,... | |
 | Eliza Richards - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 264 pages
...poetry incarnate: "Mrs. Osgood was born a poetess only- it is not in her nature to be anything else. Her personal, not less than her literary character and existence are one perpetual poem" (CW1y. 105). Osgood was so poetic that she was incapable of writing any species of prose: She begins... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - American poetry - 1855 - 532 pages
...thnnighoct ••«H»e«l . O.*go<xi"- -)o*c '<* with aj:;f . the poa of a ai«ter j^> :« - . _ 4 FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD. THE subject of this notice...not to think it — act it — dream it, and be it — is entirely out of her power." Her first volume, " The Wreath of Wild Flowers," was published in... | |
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