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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 27: services for education.—prison discipline.—Correspondence.— January to July, 1845.—age, 34. (search)
volume of his edition of Plato published? How is Guizot's name pronounced? Is the Gui as in Guido in Italian, or as in guillotine in French? I detest the war spirit in Thiers's book. It is but little in advance of the cannibalism of New Zealand. What do you think of phrenology, and of animal magnet. ism? Eothen is a vivid, picturesque book, by a man of genius. What are you doing? When do you set your face Westward? I suppose Wheaton will be recalled; and I was told yesterday that Irving would be also, in all probability. . . . Ever thine, Chas. To Thomas Crawford. Boston, May 10, 1845. my dear Crawford,—I suppose you have not yet received the letter from the students. I believe they postponed it till you are known to be in Boston. They confine their order to the limits of their pockets, and propose a bust only. I propose a statue. Quincy will make an admirable statue in his robes as President of the College; and the Library of the College is a beautiful hall.
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
the best classical traditions as Goldsmith or Irving, who, with Cervantes, earliest delighted him. art along the lines of his own predilections. Irving, of course, was at one time most adversely crinhead, and the genial flow of benign art, with Irving as its fountainhead— have their confluence in ester, Massachusetts, the very year that Washington Irving's Sketch Book marked the commencement orists than with the more personal and leisurely Irving tradition. Indeed, it was Whipple's brilliantgate. Ogden is said to have taken it to Washington Irving, who was prevented by circumstances fromto re-fashion Charles Burke's version of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle for presentation by Jeftle which relates to education. In this group Irving's Legend of sleepy hollow (1819) undoubtedly tondon again, early in April, Ticknor went with Irving to the damning of a play and afterwards to the rather with the discursive historical work of Irving and of Prescott than with the minute textual s[11 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
the United States in the field, 342 Intellect, 415 Interest as related to effort, 423 Interest of great Britain considered, the, 428 Interest of the country in Laying duties, the, 427 International bimetallism, 441 International Dictionary, 477, 478 International Review, 304 In the Lena Delta, 168 In the Levant, 164 In the palace of the King, 88 In the Valley, 92 Introductory lectures on political economy, 434 Investors and money Makers, 443 Iris, 293 Irving, Washington, 69, 77, 110, 112, 113, 114, 123, 125, 128, 137, 164, 268, 312, 415, 454, 458, 549, 583-4 Irwin, Wallace, 498 Isaac Sheftel, an Arbeiter drama, 609 Is it Peace or War? 217 Isocrates, 460, 465 Is polite Society polite? 121 Isthmus of Panama and what I saw There, the, 162 Italian journeys, 78, 164 Italian sights and Papal Principalities seen through American spectacles, 164 Italiker und Graken, 462 Itineraries (Stiles, Ezra), 447 n. It pays to Advertise, 295
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, V. James Fenimore Cooper (search)
f a century after death. Indeed, the list of various editions and versions of his writings in the catalogues of German booksellers often exceeds that of Scott. This is not in the slightest degree due to his personal qualities, for these made him unpopular, nor to personal manoeuvring, for this he disdained. He was known to refuse to have his works even noticed in a newspaper for which he wrote, the New York patriot. He never would have consented to review his own books, as both Scott and Irving did, or to write direct or indirect puffs of himself, as was done by Poe and Whitman. He was foolishly sensitive to criticism, and unable to conceal it; he was easily provoked to a quarrel; he was dissatisfied with either praise or blame, and speaks evidently of himself in the words of the hero of Miles Wallingford, when he says: In scarce a circumstance of my life that has brought me in the least under the cognizance of the public have I ever been judged justly. There is no doubt that he
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 23 (search)
y. Frederic Henry Hedge, who had studied in Gottingen as a schoolboy and belonged to a younger circle, did not become professor until many years later. But while the immediate results of personal service to the college on the part of this group of remarkable men may have been inadequate, --since even Ticknor, ere parting, had with the institution a disagreement never yet fully elucidated,--yet their collective influence both on Harvard University and on American education was enormous. They helped to break up that intellectual sterility which had begun to show itself during the isolation of a merely colonial life; they prepared the way for the vast modern growth of colleges, schools, and libraries in this country, and indirectly helped that birth of a literature which gave us Irving, Cooper, Bryant, and the North American Review ; and culminated later in the brilliant Boston circle of authors, almost all of whom were Harvard men, and all of whom had felt the Harvard influence.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 24 (search)
s H. H. The latter came among us as the widow of one of the most distinguished officers whom the West Point service had reared. She was destined in all to spend five winters at Newport, and entered upon her literary life practically at that time. She lived there as happily, perhaps, as she could have dwelt in any town which she could christen Sleepy Hollow, as she did Newport; and where she could look from her window upon the fashionable avenue and see, she said, such Headless Horsemen as Irving described as having haunted the valley of that name. After her second marriage she lived far away at the middle and then at the extreme western part of the continent, and we met but few times. She wrote to me freely, however, and I cannot do better than close by quoting from this brilliant woman's very words her description of the manner in which she wrote the tale Ramona, now apparently destined to be her source of permanent fame. I do not know in literary history so vivid a picture of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
ized in our nation this tinge of the French temperament, while perhaps giving to it an inadequate explanation. Iii The local literary prominence given, first to Philadelphia by Franklin and Brockden Brown, and then to New York by Cooper and Irving, was in each case too detached and fragmentary to create more than these individual fames, however marked or lasting these may be. It required time and a concentrated influence to constitute a literary group in America. Bryant and Channing, withhe American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall. Washington Irving, who seemed at first to so acute a French observer as Chasles a mere reproduction of Pope and Addison, wrote to John Lothrop Motley two years before his own death, You are properly sensible of the high calling of the American press,--that
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
ith all his might. Many of his companions have said, in later days, that he was unconquerable as long as his strength lasted. Careless of pain, his only thought was to reduce his opponent to submission. But the boy's life was not all play; for, though not distinguished as a scholar, he was exceedingly fond of reading, particularly those books of history which treat of the wars of Greece and Rome and the Middle Ages. He never wearied of the feats of knight-errantry, and read and re-read Irving's Conquest of Granada until he had it by heart. In the winter evenings, when a very little boy, he would sit at the table and fight the battles of the Moors and Spaniards, using spools to represent the contending knights and squadrons. Of the early display of this martial spirit and other manifestations of character a picture is given in the following letter from his teacher, Mr. George Fowle, whose kindly sympathy James ever remembered with gratitude. You could not have made me a mo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
to try to sketch from pictures now. You know I never used to, except from my own mind. This boat is the first one I ever drew from a picture, except the one in that big Homer's Iliad, where Achilles is trailing Hector behind his chariot, and is only in outline. I wish you would send me that book you were reading when you were here. It was the life of that man who went to a school where the master used to have fits of absence. I hope Rover and Argus are well. I am reading a book by Washington Irving, and it is very funny. It has a story in which he tells the origin of putting your thumb to your nose and moving your fingers, the way boys do to each other, as a sign of contempt. I should like to have you give me a strong and pretty large knife, for I have none. Your affectionate and loving son. Four months later, to his great joy, he sailed for Europe with all the family. After passing a happy summer in Switzerland, he was left at the school of M. Roulet, in Neuchate
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
, I. 30, 37;. Also, I. 406; II. 4, 6;, 9. How, Phineas, II. 30. How, Tryphena, II. 30. Howard, O. H., Capt., II. 251, 252;. Howard, O. O., Maj.-Gen., I. 174; II. 301. Hoyt, Chancellor, I. 418. Huger, B., Maj.-Gen. (Rebel service), I. 213. Hume, L. J., Lieut., I. 340. Humphreys, A. A., Maj.-Gen., I. 14; II. 140. Humphreys, C. A., Chaplain, II. 116, 117;, 159, 329. Huney, John, I. 95. Hunter, David, Maj.-Gen., I. 296, 373;. Hutchinson Family, I. 41. I. Irving, Washington, I. 307. J. Jackson, Charles, I. 395; II. 453. Jackson, P. T., I. 275, 395;II. 457. Jackson, T. J., Maj.-Gen. (Rebel service), I. 146, 159;, 263, 264; II. 168,169, 257, 421. James, G. W., II. 462, 464;. James, W., II. 357. Jefferson, Thomas (President U. S.), I. 90. Johnson, Mrs., II. 236. Johnston, J. E., Maj.-Gen. (Rebel service), I. 213. Jones, Corporal, II. 311. Jordan, Laura P., I. 116. K. Kearney, Philip, Maj.-Gen., I. 142,143; II. 400
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