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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 210 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 190 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 146 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 138 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 96 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 84 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 68 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 64 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 57 1 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 55 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
eproduce a past experience, except in a higher form, I shall fail. .. I have a passion for red tape and lists and the arrangement of details; understand perfectly Napoleon's loving to read over his army lists, in moments of leisure; give me something that interests me, to codify and arrange, and I am perfectly happy; with a shade less of the element of action, I should be a perfect librarian, in bliss among pamphlets and gluttonous of work. October 30, 1860 Why should we all (save Emerson) be so impatient to speak? Why not wait till next moment or next sphere, if necessary, and say it deliberately and well? But no, the terrible throb of eager desire for utterance drives men on, like hunger or lust, with no power to calculate or resist. When you have found a day to be idle, be idle for a day, says a Chinese proverb. But the name of idleness is a misnomer for any day, however spent, by a man whose brain is active. Awaken a man's faculties in a hundred different direc
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
iftieth anniversary of, 321. Canada, descriptions of, 94-98. Carlyle, Thomas, 322. Channing, Barbara, sketch of, 64, 65. Channing, Ellery, quoted, 7; on Emerson, 42; on Thoreau, 42, 43. Channing, Mrs., Susan, 255. Channing, William Henry, at Rochester, 66, 67. Chapman, Mrs. Maria W., described by Whittier, 9-11; leapes, 228. Dunlap, Sergeant, 171. Durant, Henry F., founder of Wellesley, 70, 71. E Earle, Thomas, in Civil War, 166, 167. Emancipation, 164. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, letter to, 33; Channing on, 42; proposed lecture of, 59; described, 93. Everetts, the Sidney, 266. F Fay, Maria, 1, and note. Fayal, 124-37; fhe John Browns, 77, 84-88; and Sanborn, 86; preaching, 91; notes on contemporaries, 93, 94; in Canada, 94-101; and Harriet Prescott, 103-11; and Thoreau, 105; and Emerson, 105, 106; at Atlantic dinners, 106-11; and Atlantic Monthly, 111, 112; his essay on Snow, 114; travels, 117-53; goes to Mt. Katahdin, 117-20; excursion to Adiron