Charles Godfrey Leland

thumb|Charles Godfrey Leland Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15 1824 – March 20 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist. Quotes Hans Breitmann gife a barty—Where ish dat barty now? Hans Breitmann's Party (1871) They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train. The Masher The brave deserve the lovely—every woman may be won. The Masher If all the world must see the worldAs the world the world hath seen,Then it were better for the worldThat the world had never been. The World and the World Lord! I must stop to breathe, there's something so much better and decenter and innocenter in such losing one's self in green leaves, and among bees and honeysuckles and beautiful proud-eyed girls and sunsets, and sea-shells and horses, and old walls, and storms off Mount Desert and Christkinkle, and Venus on the Half-Shell, and Cinderella, and all that, than in nine-tenths of the Duty and Business and Serious Slop and Slather which life drives us up to! "The Observations of Mace Sloper, Esq.", in The Knickerbocker (April 1861), p. 419 External links Charles Godfrey Leland Charles+Godfrey+Leland Charles Godfrey Leland Charles Godfrey Leland - An article on Leland and Italian Witchcraft Category:Humorists from the United States Category:Journalists from Philadelphia Category:1824 births Category:1903 deaths Category:Princeton University alumni Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society