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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Reply of Mrs. Child. (search)
an it could have been by me. From that time to this, I have labored too earnestly for the slave to be agreeable to slave-holders. Literary popularity was never a paramount object with me, even in my youth ; and, now that I am old, I am utterly indifferent to it. But, if I cared for the exclusion you threaten, I should at least have the consolation of being exiled with honorable company. Dr. Channing's writings, mild and candid as they are, breathe what you would call arrant treason. William C. Bryant, in his capacity of editor, is openly on our side. The inspired muse of Whittier has incessantly sounded the trumpet for moral warfare with your iniquitous institution ; and his stirring tones have been answered, more or less loudly, by Pierpont, Lowell, and Longfellow. Emerson, the Plato of America, leaves the scholastic seclusion he loves so well, and, disliking noise with all his poetic soul, bravely takes his stand among the trumpeters. George W. Curtis, the brilliant writer, th
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Lucy Osgood. (search)
ful influences. Memory has a superabounding stock of sadness for all, and any addition to it in books or conversation is an unwelcome excess. To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main. William C. Bryant wrote me a charming note about the book. I will quote part of it to you, because I know you like to hear of anything pleasant that happens to me. He says: My dear Mrs. Child, you are like some artists, who excel in sunset views. You give the closing stage of human life an atmosphere of the richest lights and warmest hues, and make even its clouds add to its glory. My wife and I have read your book with great delight. And while I am talking of the pleasant things that have happened
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
nna, 140. Bleby, Rev., Henry, 134. Boston Athenaeum, privileges of, given to, and withdrawn from, Mrs. Child, 195, 264. Boutwell, George S , speech of, 168. Bremer, Fredrika, meets Mrs. Child, 65; relates anecdote of Jenny Lind, 66; her estimation of Lowell and Emerson, 66. Brisbane, Mr., 51. Broken Lights, by Miss Cobbe, 184. Brooks, Governor, v. Brown, John, letter of Mrs. Child to, 118; his reply, 119; martyrdom of, 137. Browning's (Mrs.) Aurora Leigh, 87. Bryant, William C., writes to Mrs. Child, 186. Buckle's History of civilization, 99. Buddha, 257. Burns, Anthony, returned to slavery from Boston, 72. C. Carpenter, E., letters to, 19, 22, 26. Carpenter, Joseph, letters to, 41, 68. Cassimir, a nephew of Kossuth, 162. Chadwick, John W., 242. Channing, William Ellery, discusses the anti-slavery movement with Mrs. Child, 24; letters of, to Mrs. Child, 44, 45; Mrs. Child's reminiscences of, 48; influenced by Mrs. Child's Appeal, 7
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rior, i vol. Scott, 5 vols. Shakespeare and Jonson, I vol. Chatterton, I vol. Shelley, 2 vols. Skelton and Donne, 2 vols. Southey, 5 vols. Spenser, 3 vols. Swift, 2 vols. Thomson, I vol. Watts and White, i vol. Wordsworth, 3 vols. Wyatt and Surrey, I vol. Young, i vol. John Brown, M. D. Spare Hours. 3 vols. 16mo, each $1.50. Robert Browning. Poems and Dramas, etc. 14 vols. $19.500. Complete Works. New Edition. 7 vols. (in Press.) Wm. C. Bryant. Translation of Homer. The Iliad. 2 vols. royal 8vo, $9.00. Crown 8vo, $4.50. 1 vol. 12mo, $3.00. The Odyssey. 2 vols. royal 8vo, $9.00. Crown 8vo, $4.50, 1 vol. 12mo, $3.00. John Burroughs. Wake-Robin. Illustrated. 16mo, $1.50. Winter Sunshine. 16mo. $1.50. Birds and Poets. 16mo, $1.50. Locusts and Wild Honey. 16mo, $r.50. Pepacton, and Other Sketches. 16mo, $1.50. Thomas Carlyle. Essays. With Portrait and Index. Four volumes, crown 8vo, $7.50. Popul