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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 11 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 10 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 9 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 8 2 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 6 0 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) 5 1 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 5 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, X (search)
Goethe's early fame bore much comparison with his deserts. He was, indeed, praised for Werther and Gotz von Berlichingen, but the romances of August La Fontaine were in equal demand, and the latter, being a voluminous writer, was much more in men's mouths. The poets of the period were Wieland and Ramler; and Kotzebue and Iffland ruled the stage. Even forty years ago, I remember well, it was considered an open subject of discussion whether Goethe or Schiller was the greater name; and Professor Felton of Harvard University took the pains to translate a long history of German literature by Menzel, the one object of which was to show that Goethe was quite a secondary figure, and not destined to any lasting reputation. It was one of the objections to Margaret Fuller, in the cultivated Cambridge circle of that day, that she spoke disrespectfully of Menzel in the Dial, and called him a Philistine—the first introduction into English, so far as I know, of that word since familiarized by A
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XX (search)
licidoe, or gnats. There was nothing extreme in this confession; it might be paralleled in every department of study. But meanwhile what becomes of, the authors? I am not now speaking with any special reference to the Greeks. The fate of the ancient classics among us was long since settled. When the successor of Dr. Popkin was made President of Harvard College, in 1860, he virtually surrendered his traditions by translating the Greek quotations in his Inaugural Address; and what President Felton did for the elder language, President Eliot did for the Latin when he at the 250th anniversary of that institution, bestowed the honorary degrees in most sonorous English. Grant that the authors now share with all other writers, in all languages and departments, the limitations of the life of man, it is plain that those limitations bring the greatest change to those two languages which were once thought to hold all knowledge in their grasp. But the same stern restriction makes itself
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, Index (search)
. 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, the shadow of, 27. Evolution, the, of an American, 221. Everett, Edward, 51, 155. Ewing, Juliana, 203. F. Faber, F. W., 94. Fame, the equation of, 88. Farmers, American, 75. Felton, C. C., 90, 174. Fields, J. T., 51. Firdousi, 186. Fiske, Willard, 172,185. Fitzgerald, P. H., 229. Fontenelle, Bernard de, 86. Fuller, M. F., see Ossoli. Fuller, Thomas, 93. Franklin, Benjamin, 5, 63,155. Francis, Philip, 190. Frederick II., 83. Freeman, E. A., 168. Froude, J. A., 116, 158, 203. G. Garfield, J. A., 111. Garrison, W. L., 49, 62. George IV., 111. Giants, concerning, 185. Gilder, R. W., 113. Gladstone, W. E., 110, 167. Goethe, J. W., 6, 17, 48, 6