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George D. Prentice Quotes

1802–1870 United States

George Dennison Prentice (December 18, 1802 - January 22, 1870) was an American newspaper editor, who worked as editor of the Louisville Journal, which he built into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Prenticeana (1860)

The waves
Of the mysterious death-river moaned;
The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar
Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry
Of myriad victims, filled the air.

Gone! gone forever!—like a rushing wave
Another year has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being—and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents in the air,
Are dying to an echo.

'Tis Noon;—a calm, unbroken sleep
Is on the blue waves of the deep;
A soft haze, like a fairy dream,
Is floating over wood and stream;
And many a broad magnolia flower,
Within its shadowy woodland bower,
Is gleaming like a lovely star.

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