hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 744 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 56 0 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 40 4 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 37 3 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 37 1 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 30 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 25 5 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 14 0 Browse Search
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.) 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 12 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. You can also browse the collection for Louis Agassiz or search for Louis Agassiz in all documents.

Your search returned 3 results in 3 document sections:

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 21: the Loftier strain: Christus (search)
On the other hand, we have the fact that it absorbed him more utterly than any other portion of the book. He writes in his diary on January 6, 1871, The subject of The Divine Tragedy has taken entire possession of me, so that I can think of nothing else. All day pondering upon and arranging it. And he adds next day, I find all hospitalities and social gatherings just now great interruptions. Yet he has to spend one morning that week in Boston at a meeting of stockholders; on another day Agassiz comes, broken down even to tears by the loss of health and strength; on another day there is a continued series of interruptions from breakfast till dinner. I could not get half an hour to myself all day long. Oh, for a good snow-storm to block the door! Still another day it is so cold he can scarcely write in his study, and he has so many letters to answer. Yet he writes during that month a scene or two every day. We know from the experience of all poets that the most brilliant short
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 24: Longfellow as a man (search)
n as the mutual admiration society; indeed, there was a tradition that some one had written above a review of Longfellow's Evangeline by Felton, to be found at the Athenaeum Library, the condensed indorsement, Insured at the Mutual. At a later period this club gave place, as clubs will, to other organizations, such as the short-lived Atlantic Club and the Saturday Club; and at their entertainments Longfellow was usually present, as were also, in the course of time, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Agassiz, Whittier, and many visitors from near and far. Hawthorne was rarely seen on such occasions, and Thoreau never. On the other hand, the club never included the more radical reformers, as Garrison, Phillips, Bronson Alcott, Edmund Quincy, or Theodore Parker, and so did not call out what Emerson christened the soul of the soldiery of dissent. It would be a mistake to assume that on these occasions Longfellow was a recipient only. Of course Holmes and Lowell, the most naturally talkative o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
Index Advertiser, The Boston Daily, 41. Agamenticus, 131. Agassiz, Louis, 242, 285. Alcott, A. Bronson, 271, 285. Alden, Capt., John, 13,146. Alhambra, the, 50. Allen, Capt., 46. America, 50-52, 65, 71, 73, 90, 91, 95, 98, 101, 106, 112, 143, 161,173, 215, 222, 248, 254-256, 259, 271, 272; series of Annuals in, 72; Longfellow addresses poets of, 77. American Antiquarian Society, 118 note. American Modern Language Association, 184. American Monthly Magazine, the, 22. Amherst College, 3. Amsterdam, 108. Andersen, Hans C., 193. Andrews, William P., 234; his paper On the Translation of Faust, quoted, 233. Angler's Song, the, 79. Antwerp, 161. Appleton, Frances E. See Longfellow, Frances A. Appleton, Nathan, 121,171. Appleton, Thomas G., 103, 219, 273. Arfwedson, Mr. and Mrs., 93, 95. Arnold, Mr., 70. Arnold, Matthew, 6. Atchafalaya, Lake, 195. Athenaeum Library, 285. Atlantic Monthly, the, cited, 233 note; mentioned, 287. Auersb