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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, I. Carlyle's laugh (search)
I. Carlyle's laugh None of the many sketches of Carlyle that have been published since his deaCarlyle that have been published since his death have brought out quite distinctly enough the thing which struck me more forcibly than all else, n Paris, of that author's smile. To be sure, Carlyle's laugh was not like that smile, but it was st interview with him, that all I had known of Carlyle through others, or through his own books, forirst time, in 1872, I was offered a letter to Carlyle, and declined it. Like all of my own generatime with him for one of his afternoon calls on Carlyle, and further proposed that I should join themgant passing carriage on an odder figure than Carlyle. Tall, very thin, and slightly stooping; witer, I went with my friend Conway to call on Mr. Carlyle once more, and found the kindly laugh stilethe; and we know that Richter was defined by Carlyle, in his very first literary essay, as a humors last phrase, a satirical improvisatore, seems to me better than any other to describe Carlyle. [7 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott (search)
ction. Emerson is the only instance of original style among Americans. Who writes like him? Who can? None of his imitators, surely. The day shall come when this man's genius shall shine beyond the circle of his own city and nation. Emerson's is destined to be the high literary name of this age. Sanborn and Harris's Alcott, i, 264. No one up to that time, probably, had uttered an opinion of Emerson quite so prophetic as this; it was not until four years later, in 1841, that even Carlyle received the first volume of Emerson's Essays and said, It is once more the voice of a man. Yet from that moment Alcott and Emerson became united, however inadequate their twinship might have seemed to others. Literature sometimes, doubtless, makes strange friendships. There is a tradition that when Browning was once introduced to a new Chinese ambassador in London, the interpreter called attention to the fact that they were both poets. Upon Browning's courteously asking how much poetr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, X. Charles Eliot Norton (search)
emembers his eight volumes of delicately arranged scrap-books extending from 1861 to 1866, and his six volumes of Heart of Oak selections for childhood. There were comparatively few years of his maturer life during which he was not editor of something, and there was also needed much continuous labor in taking care of his personal library. When we consider that he had the further responsibility of being practically the literary executor or editor of several important men of letters, as of Carlyle, Ruskin, Lowell, Curtis, and Clough; and that in each case the work was done with absolute thoroughness; and that even in summer he became the leading citizen of a country home and personally engaged the public speakers who made his rural festals famous, it is impossible not to draw the conclusion that no public man in America surpassed the sequestered Norton in steadfastness of labor. It being made my duty in June, 1904, to read a poem before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa, I was tempted to
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 19 (search)
squires; insomuch that he had a double allowance of wine served out that evening to each of his numerous grandsons in place of their accustomed wine-glass of diluted beverage, and this to their visible disadvantage as the evening went on. Elliot Cabot entered Harvard College in 1836 as Freshman, and though he passed his entrance examinations well, took no prominent rank in his class, but read all sorts of out-of-the-way books and studied natural history. He was also an early reader of Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, then just published; and was, in general, quite disposed to pursue his own course in mental culture. He belonged to the Hasty Pudding Club and to the Porcellian Club, but spent much time with his classmates, Henry Bryant and William Sohier, in shooting excursions, which had then the charm of being strictly prohibited by the college. The young men were obliged to carry their guns slung for concealment in two parts, the barrels separated from the stock, under their cloaks