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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
windings of the Clyde, with the romantic castle in sight. Talfourd is moaning that he must so soon desert these sweet places and hurry back to town and business. I write you now particularly, in order to answer a question, which hangs upon my mind, in one of your former letters. You ask how will it do to publish a collection of Macaulay's writings? The American edition of Macaulay's essays first led him to consider the expediency of an English edition. See his letter to Napier, Aug. 25, 1842,—Trevelyan's Life of Lord Macaulay, Vol. II. p. 100. Very well. I thought otherwise at first. There is a sameness in his style,—balance and counterbalance, gun answering gun, parterre casting the shadow of parterre,—so that I at first feared that a volume of his composition would not have the same relish that we find in an article. But I am now convinced that there is withal so much thought and generalization, and historical argument and illustration, in all that he has written, that <
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), VI. Jamaica Plain. (search)
ody of his earlier cadence! I have loved him much this time, and taken him to heart as a brother. One of his themes has long been my favorite,—the last expedition of Ulysses, —and his, like mine, is the Ulysses of the Odyssey, with his deep romance of wisdom, and not the worldling of the Iliad. How finely marked his slight description of himself and of Telemachus. In Dora, Locksley Hall, the Two Voices, Morte D'Arthur, I find my own life, much of it, written truly out. Concord, August 25, 1842.—Beneath this roof of peace, beneficence, and intellectual activity, I find just the alternation of repose and satisfying pleasure that I need. Do not find fault with the hermits and scholars. The true text is: Mine own Telemachus He does his work—I mine. All do the work, whether they will or no; but he is mine own Telemachus who does it in the spirit of religion, never believing that the last results can be arrested in any one measure or set of measures, listening always to th
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
hompson ) in 50th yr.—g. s. Woburn 1st B. G.]. See Wyman, 400. (Dea. Miles Gardner, d. 14 Oct. 1863, a. 87; Lydia, w. of same, d. 28 Aug. 1854, a. 72). 4. Catherine F., w. of Samuel, Samuel, her husband, d. 15 April, 1868, a. 88—g. s. Woburn 2d B. G. See Vinton's Richardson Memorial, p. 302. The family resided in a part of Winchester, formerly West Cambridge, and once a part of Charlestown. bro. of Miles (3), d. 23 Apr. 1842, a. 72 [g. s. Woburn 2d B. G.]. Ellen, dau. of Doct., d. 25 Aug. 1842, a. 3 1/2. Wyman's Charlestown Genealogies and Estates, 400; see Sewall's Woburn, 614-15. Garfield, Hannah Maria. and Zaccheus Bemis of Camb., m. 5 May, 1839. Gay, Lucy, d. 6 Mar. 1828, a. 29, wife of John Gay—(g. s.). Gemini—twin infants—d. 7 Mar. 1795, a. 8 hours. Geohagan, Michael, of Boston, and Prudence Winship of Camb., m. 10 May, 1744. See Wyman, 404. See Thornton. Gerry, Catherine, and James Trecothick Austin of Camb. m. 2 Oct. 1806. Dau. of Vice President E