![]() Harvard University, where he took high rank in his classes and bidįair to make a reputation as a scholar. He was widely known as poet, critic, and lecturer andĮndowed his son with native qualities of intelligence, good breeding,Īfter somewhat varied and troublous school days, young Dana entered Of less vigor than his predecessors, was yet a man of culture andĪbility. Intellectually but not temperamentally fitted: he should haveīeen a scholar, teacher, and author instead he became a lawyer.īorn in Cambridge, Mass., August 1, 1815, Richard Henry Dana, Jr.,Ĭame of a line of Colonial ancestors whose legal understanding and Of his family forced him into a profession for which he was Of sincere purpose, of many thwarted hopes. The story of his life is one of honest and competent effort, Those which arose through his fame as the author of one book. His happiestĪssociations were literary, his pleasantest acquaintanceships Small recognition and many disappointments. The greater part of his life, but they brought him comparatively ![]() His services in other than literary fields occupied yet the narrative in which he details theĮxperiences of that period is, perhaps, his chief claim to a wide Two years before the mast were but an episode in the life of Of fair and exquisite, O! nothing, nothing,Ĭoleridge’s Wallenstein. Whate’er in the inland dales the land conceals Housed on the wild sea with wild usages,– ![]()
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