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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 10 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 6 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 5 1 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
and bold. . . . I am an enthusiast now, I know. So much the better. Whoever was in the highest degree useful without being such? In these years of thought and study, Wentworth wrote many verses, some of which were published in periodicals. This led to the dream of being a poet. His few hymns which are included in American and English collections of sacred song and are still sung in churches were written at this time. One day, many years later, he met his Worcester contemporary, George F. Hoar, on the street, who asked him if he was the author of the hymn containing the lines— And though most weak our efforts seem, Into one creed these thoughts to bind. Upon Mr. Higginson's assenting, Mr. Hoar said that he considered this hymn the most complete statement of Christian doctrine that was ever made. In that early period the young man exclaimed, Oh, heavens, what would I not give to know whether I really have that in me which will make a poet, or whether I deceive myself and
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
Lowell lecture (Wordsworth-shire). A great success—an unexpectedly fine voice. March 7. Second Lowell lecture. Carlyle, Ruskin, Froude, Hunt. March 28. Fifth Lowell lecture. Dickens, Thackeray and reading Tennyson's poems. April 4. Last Lowell lecture. Considered very successful and was pronounced by John Lowell the best he ever heard in that hall. In May, 1903, he spoke at the Concord Emerson celebration:— Meeting good and my address successful. After it, Senator Hoar turned to me and said, grasping my hand, What I have to say is pewter and tinsel compared to that. His position as chairman of the Harvard Visiting Committee on English Literature he resigned in 1903, having served on this and other Visiting Committees for sixty-odd years. In the latter part of that year he wrote in the journal, I always keep on my desk Sunset and evening Star [Tennyson's Crossing the Bar ], and am ready for whatever comes. On the eve of his eightieth birthday, in 1
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
eriod. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） English and American Cousins. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） Books Unread. (In Atlantic Monthly, March.) Aristocracy of the Dollar. (In Atlantic Monthly, April.) Intensely Human. (In Atlantic Monthly, May.) Butterflies and Poetry. (In Atlantic Monthly, June.) Articles. (In Boston Evening Transcript, Encyclopedia Americana, Nation, Outlook, The Reader, Sunday Magazine, [Wanamaker's] Book News.) 1905 Part of a Man's Life. George Frisbie Hoar. (In American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Proceedings.) Pph. Letter Relating to the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Leaflet. Reprinted from Harper's Weekly, July 14. （With William MacDonald.) History of the United States. Enlarged ed. of Higginson's Larger History of the United States. Introduction. (In Capen. Country Homes of Famous Americans.) Introduction. (In Sinclair. The Aftermath of Slavery.) American Audiences. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） The Clo
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
Robert Collyer, 392, 393; and church organization, 393, 394; activity, 394; delight in grandchildren, 394, 395; gradual withdrawal from active life, 395-99; Carlyle's Laugh and Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, 396; interested in Simplified Spelling, 398; and socialism, 398, 399; death, 399; farewell services, 399-401. Higginson, Thomas Went worth, Post Sons of Veterans, 391, 400. Higginson, Waldo, brother of T. W. H., account of, II, 14, 40; letter about Mr. Wells, 15. Hoar, Senator George F., and Higginson's hymn, 64; at Emerson celebration, 390. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, conversation with, 159, 160. Hopper, Edward, 135. Hopper, Isaac, 135. Horder, Rev., W. Garrett, describes Higginson, 348, 349, 362; preaches memorial sermon, 349. Houghton, Lord, 328. Houghton, Rowena, wife of village blacksmith, 8. Howe, Julia Ward, 93; at Newport, 258; and Higginson, 31$; at Paris, 342. Howe, Dr., Samuel Gridley, 26,113,193,204; and John Brown's plans, 192.