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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
nd it is Heroes that we must try to be. Then, after a long passage about his plans: Don't think that I am growing uneasy, for I never was better situated, and don't be afraid that I shall grow unsettled;— To give room for wandering is it That the world was made so wide. By the way, I have been reading Walt and Vult yet again, and with renewed delight. Jean Paul enjoyed the poetry of common life better than any one that has ever written. He made the world he lived in. So did Sir T. Browne; and it is for this, among many other things, that I am so fond of him. August 19. Of this you may be sure, that, if ever I am worth knowing, you will know me as well as if I had been close under your wing. Homer says, The gods know one another, even though they dwell far apart. It is equally true of men, i. e. men as are men. Early in the autumn of 1855 Lowell accepted a situation of great trust and great promise in the rolling-mill of the Trenton Iron Company, New Jersey, a