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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 1: childhood (search)
as reared is to this day so sheltered from the world that no neighbour's roof has ever been in sight from it; and Whittier says of it in Snow-bound No church-bell lent its Christian tone To the savage air; no social smoke Curled over woods of snow-hung oak. In a prose paper by him, moreover, The Fish I Didn't catch, published originally in the Little Pilgrim, in Philadelphia, in 1843, there is a sketch of the home of his youth, as suggestive of a rustic boyhood as if it had been made in Scotland. It opens as follows:-- Our old homestead (the house was very old for a new country, having been built about the time that the Prince of Orange drove out James the Second) nestled under a long range of hills which stretched off to the west. It was surrounded by woods in all directions save to the southeast, where a break in the leafy wall revealed a vista of low, green meadows, picturesque with wooded islands and jutting capes of upland. Through these, a small brook, noisy enough as
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
fe, Henry, 5. Rosa, Salvator, 14. Rossetti, Dante G., 145; Whittier's fondness for the ballad of Sister Helen, 117, 118. Russ, Cornelia, 137, 138. S. St. Margaret's Church, London, 181. St. Pierre, eruption at, 142. Salem, Mass., 10, 28, 58, 85, 109. Salisbury, Lord, 113. Salisbury, Mass., 4,107. Saltonstall, Leverett, 28. Salvator. See Rosa. Sargent, Mrs. John T., her Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club, quoted, 100, 101. Sargent, Rev. John T., 100. Scotland, 6. Scott, Sir, Walter, 107, 109; his Fair Maid of Perth, mentioned, 7; quoted about Melrose Abbey, 174. Sedgwick, Catherine M., 16. Sewall, Samuel E., 50, 51, 68. Sewall family, 52. Shakespeare, William, 19, 150, 152, 154. Shaw, Col. Robert Gould, 112. Shipley, Thomas, 52. Sigourney, Mrs. L. H., 35; Whittier's letter to, 37, 38. Sims, Thomas, case of, 46. Sisters, the, 145-147. Smalley, George W., 94. Smith, Mary Emerson, the object of Whittier's poem Memo ries, 137