Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara wrote under the name Fanny Fern...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 January 1806
CountryUnited States of America
One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.
T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.
He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.
The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.