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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Leaves from a Roman diary: February, 1869 (Rewritten in 1897） (search)
ing said almost nothing, and moving about as if he knew not what to do with himself, finally backed up against the table where our lunch was covered by the green cloth. I think he had an idea of sitting down on it, but the dishes set up such a clatter that he beat a hasty retreat. The King did not move a muscle of his countenance, but the Queen looked around and said something to him in Italian, laughing pleasantly. She is said to be friendly to Americans and is quite intimate with Miss Harriet Hosmer. She is at least a woman of noble courage, and when Garibaldi besieged Naples she went on to the ramparts and rallied the soldiers with the shells bursting about her. They subscribed themselves in Wood's register under the name of Bourbon, and after their departure we found our lunch cold, but perhaps we relished it better for this visitation of royalty. Then we all went to the carnival, where an Italian lazzaroni attempted to pick Wood's pocket, but was caught in the act and so
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Centennial Contributions (search)
tc. He goes to the statue gallery in the Vatican and returns with a feeling of dissatisfaction, and justly so, for the vast majority of statues there are merely copies, and many of them very bad copies. He recognizes the Laocoon for what it really is, the abstract type of a Greek tragedy. He notices what has since been proved by severe archaeological study, that most of the possible types and attitudes of marble statues had been exhausted by the Greeks long before the Christian era. Miss Hosmer's Zenobia was originally a Ceres, and even Crawford's Orpheus strongly resembles a figure in the Niobe group at Florence. But Hawthorne's description of the Faun of Praxiteles stands by itself. As a penetrative analysis of a great sculptor's motive it is unequalled by any modern writer on art, and this is set forth with a grace and delicacy worthy of Praxiteles himself. The only criticism which one feels inclined to make of it is that it too Hawthornish, too modern and elaborate; but
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. (search)
To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. West Newton, 1852. Do you know that Harriet Hosmer, daughter of a physician in Watertown, has produced a remarkably good piece of statuary? It is a bust of Vesper, the Evening Star. I never saw a tender, happy drowsiness so well expressed. A star shining on her forehead, and beneath her breast lies the crescent moon. Her graceful hair is intertwined with capsules of the poppy. It is cut with great delicacy and precision, and the flesh seems to me very flesh-like. The poetic conception is her own, and the workmanship is all her own. A man worked upon it a day and a half, to chip off large bits of marble; but she did not venture to have him go within several inches of the surface she intended to work. Miss Hosmer is going to Rome in October, accompanied by her father, a plain, sensible man, of competent property. She expects to remain in Italy three years, with the view of becoming a sculptor by profession. Mrs. Stowe's truly great work, Uncle Tom's
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
e Protestant reformation, 187. Heyrick, Elizabeth, promulgates the doctrine of Immediate Emancipation, 23. Higginson, T. W., his biographical account of Mrs. Child, VI., XIII.; sermon to the people of Lawrence, Kans., 84; speech at an anti-slavery meeting, 149. Hincks, Governor, of the West Indies, 134. History of women, VII. Hoar, Samuel, expelled from South Carolina, 108. Hobomok, Mrs. Child's first story, VII. Hopper, Isaac T., 43; Mrs. Child's Life of, XIII. Hosmer, Harriet, 68. Hovey, Charles F., 82. I. Indians, treatment of the, 218-220. J. Jack, Captain, the Modoc chief, 220. Jackson, General, Andrew, and the Seminole War, 219. Jackson, Francis, 260. Jay, John, 188. Jefferson, Thomas, testimony of against slavery, 133. John Brent, by Theodore Winthrop, 164. John Brown Song, the, 157. Johnson, Andrew, speech of, at Nashville, 184. Johnson, Oliver, 232. Johnson, Rev., Samuel, 96, 214. Julian, George W., letter to, 187.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
nces fills me with renewed dismay at the contemplation of young ladies' lives, especially those who have had what are called advantages. Girls talk folly enough to young men, but nothing to what they talk to each other. Joyfully I turn to Harriet Hosmer the sculptor. Mr. Higginson often got a good deal of entertainment as well as discomfort out of his lecture or preaching trips. Brooklyn, N. Y., November, 1852 We reached Norwich at nine and took the steamer; and here, better still, appean, Mrs. Browning, and other Roman notabilities. She and Sully walk on the Campagna as if it were the Cambridge Common; little Lizzy plays with young Brownings and Crawfords; and Bab [Barbara] lends my Woman and her wishes to Fanny Kemble and Harriet Hosmer. May 11, 1854 Mary groans in spirit over Bab's dashing and vehement mode of life. She herself, like Lowell's charming picture of President Kirkland, belongs to a past age of quiet and finds no home here; she would enjoy the repose of th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
women than women are to each other. True, the worst effect of a condition of inferiority is the weakness it leaves behind it; even when we say, Hands off! the sufferer does not rise. In such a case, there is but one counsel worth giving. More depends on determination than even on ability. Will, not talent, governs the world. From what pathway of eminence were women more traditionally excluded than from the art of sculpture, in spite of Non me Praxiteles fecit, sed Anna Darner?-yet Harriet Hosmer and her sisters have climbed far up its steep ascent. Who believed that a poetess could ever be more than an Annot Lyle of the harp, to soothe with sweet melodies the leisure of her lord, until in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's hands the thing became a trumpet? Where are gone the sneers with which army surgeons and parliamentary orators opposed Mr. Sidney Herbert's first proposition to send Florence Nightingale to the Crimea? In how many towns has the current of popular prejudice agains
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 18: (search)
h Museum three or four hours work, and very interesting work, too, from which I came home with a good many notes, and very dirty hands, from turning over curious old Spanish books. When I had washed and put myself in order I went to Lady Chatterton's, a lady who has written a book about the South of France, and collects a certain portion of fashionable and literary society at her house to hear music and eat ices, drink tea, and talk, from four to six or seven. . . . . Harness was there, Harriet Hosmer, Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, Faust Hayward, Barlow, Lady Becher, etc. But I went late and came away early. . . . . My dinner was at Lord Wensleydale's, where we had Murchison, Lord Caernarvon, the Bishop of London,—very agreeable,—the Laboucheres, Edward Ellice, Lord Brougham, Lady Ebrington, etc. I talked before dinner with Lord Brougham, who seems to grow old as fast as anybody I meet, and who is said to have shown symptoms of age in a speech to-day. . . . . It was so pleasant that I
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
5, 408, 409, II. 147, 149, 177. Holland, Lord (Fourth), II. 359, 366, 373, 884; Lady, 367, 369, 373, 379, 383. Holland, Dr. (Sir Henry), I. 446, II. 146, 151, 152, 259, 326, 71, 384, 489, 463. Holland, Queen of, II. 371, 381. Hollond, Mr., II. 479. Holmes, Dr. O. W., II. 310. Hopkinson, Francis, I. 15. Hopkinson, Judge, I. 15. Hopkinson, Mrs., I. 16. Horner, Francis, II. 150, 468. Horner, Leonard, II. 332, 358, 409. Horner, Mrs. L., II. 332, 358, 359, 360, 409. Hosmer, Miss Harriet G., II. 371, 383, 384. House of Commons, G. T. called before Committee of, I. 415; debate in, 416; debate in, II. 378. House of Lords, debate in, II. 365. Houston, General S. . I. 372, 373, 374. Huber, Francois, I. 156, 157, II. 37. Huber, V. A., II. 260. Hubner, Julius, II. 329. Hudson River, visits, I. 386, II. 282. Hugel, Baron von, II. 111, 112. Hulsemann, Chevalier, II. 263. Humboldt, Baron Alexander von, I. 128, 129, 130, 134 and note, 135, 138