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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XXIII (search)
eakness, not of strength. It may be meant for strength, but, like swearing, it is rather a substitute for it. When Matthew Arnold, at the outset of his paper on Emerson, proposes that we should pull ourselves together to examine him, he says crudely what might have been more forcibly conveyed by a finer touch. When Mr. Gosse, in one of his Forum papers, answers an objection with A fiddlestick's end for such a theory! it does not give an impression of vigor, or of what he calls, in case of Dryden, a virile tramp, but rather suggests that humbler hero of whom Byron records that— He knew not what to say, and so he swore. The fact that Mr. Arnold and Mr. Gosse have both made good criticisms on others does not necessarily indicate that they practise as they preach. To come back once more to the incomparable Joubert, we often find a good ear perfectly compatible with a false note. Que de gens, en litterature, ont l'oreille juste, et chantent faux! It is never worth while to dwel
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, Index (search)
D. Dante, Alighieri, 48,114, 185, 186, 187, 189, 196. Darwin, C. R., 29, 49, 124,125,137, 176, 187. Dead level, the fear of the, 70. Declaration of independence, applied to literature, 4. Delphic oracle, answer of, to Cicero, 4. Demosthenes, 69. Descartes, Rene, 71. Dickens, Charles, 12, 93, 183, 184, 206. Dickinson, Emily, 16. Digby, K. H., 116. Donnelly, Ignatius, 175. Dime novel, the test of the, 198. Disraeli, Benj., see Beaconsfield. Drake, Nathan, 187. Dryden, John, 195. Dukes, acceptance of, 12. Doyle, J. A., 33. E. Eckermann, J. P., 97, 188, 228. Edwards, Jonathan, 155. Eggleston, Edward, 11. Equation of fame, the, 88. Eliot, Charles, 174. Eliot, George, 200. Elliot, Sir, Frederick, 78, 167. Emerson, R. W., 7, 15, 27, 36, 39, 42, 46, 49, 54, 63, 66, 71,92, 100, 114, 123, 124, 126, 155, 173, 175, 191, 195, 197, 208, 217, 221. English criticism on America, 24. English society, influence of, on literature, 204, 205. Europe,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 22: Westminster Abbey (search)
ircumstance when these independent judgments happen to coincide. The following is the best London report of the services on this occasion:— On Saturday, March 2, 1884, at midday, the ceremony of unveiling a bust of Longfellow took place in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. It is the work of Mr. Thomas Brock, A. R. A., and was executed by desire of some five hundred admirers of the American poet. It stands on a bracket near the tomb of Chaucer, and between the memorials to Cowley and Dryden. Before the ceremony took place, a meeting of the subscribers was held in the Jerusalem Chamber. In the absence of Dean Bradley, owing to a death in his family, the Sub-Dean, Canon Prothero, was called to the chair. Mr. Bennoch having formally announced the order of proceeding, Dr. Bennett made a brief statement, and called upon Earl Granville to ask the Dean's acceptance of the bust. Earl Granville then said: Mr. Sub-Dean, Ladies and Gentlemen, . . . I am afraid I cannot fulfil the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
61. Cushman, Bezaleel, 17, 60. Cutler, Mr., 140. Cuyp, Albert, 142. Dana, Richard H., 80, 133. Dannemora, iron mines of, 97. Dante, 214, 230, 234; Longfellow translates, 207, 225. Dartmouth College, 17. Dawes, Rufus, 23. Delphi, 31. Dessau, Spanish Student performed in, 188. Devereux Farm, Marblehead, 201. Devonshire, 223. Dial, the, 125, 133, 145. Dickens, Charles, 170, 284. Diderot, Denis, 121. Digby, Kenelm H., on Longfellow, 142. Dobell, Sydney, 282. Dryden, John, 9, 249. Dublin, Ire., 167. Duxbury, Mass., 12. Dwight, John, 286. Dwight, Rev., Timothy, 14, 23. Eden Hall, 219. Edgeworth, Miss, Maria, 62. Edinburgh, 8, 233. Edinburgh Review, the, 90. Edrehi, Israel, 214. Eichhorn, Prof., 46. Eliot, Charles W., quoted, 184, 185. Eliot, Samuel A., 182. Elmwood, Cambridge, 168. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1, 6, 75,164, 192, 196, 209, 259, 271, 285, 292, 294; on Kavanagh, 199; his influence upon literature, 261, 262; lectures in Cambrid
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Ye olde Meting-House of Meadford. (search)
ry had been for five years the reigning sovereigns and the town meetings were called in their majesties names. The witchcraft delusion at Salem had just run its length and subsided without thrusting its baleful presence and influence into Medford. Beyond the sea in old England, John Bunyan, the immortal dreamer, and Richard Baxter, the voluminous writer, had but just passed away. The Pilgrim's Progress of the one, and Saint's Rest of the other were beginning to reach these shores. John Dryden, the poet and translator of Virgil, and John Locke, the mental philosopher of that age, were just completing their life work, while the great architect, Sir Christopher Wren, was in his prime. But four years had passed since Sir Edmund Andros had been sent home to England, and one Medford man is credited with saying, If Andros comes to Medford we'll treat him not with shad and alewives but with swordfish. Possibly if this ancient Medfordite could now return, he would find a differen