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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 1: childhood (search)
ne of his first attempts in verse was a rhymed catalogue of the books in the family library — a list which begins as follows: The Bible towering o'er all the rest, Of all other books the best. William Penn's laborious writing And a book 'gainst Christians fighting. A book concerning John's Baptism, Elias Smith's Universalism. How Captain Riley and his crew Were on Sahara's desert threw. How Rollins, to obtain the cash, Wrote a dull history of trash. The lives of Franklin and of Penn, Of Fox and Scott, all worthy men. The life of Burroughs, too, I've read, As big a rogue as e'er was made. And Tufts, too, though I will be civil, Worse than an incarnate devil. Now the lives of George Burroughs and Henry Tufts were the Gil Bias and even the Guzman d'alfarache of the New England readers of a hundred years ago; the former having gone through many editions, while the latter — by far the wittier and wickeder of the two--was suppressed by the Tufts family, and not more than half a d
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 10: the religious side (search)
ations of passages are superb in their discrimination; the words of Ezekiel and Esdras seem greater and profounder than those of his verses that follow; and yet this is no truer of them than of the prefatory prelude taken from St. Augustine, or George Fox, or the Hymns of the Brahmo-Somaj. This is as it should be; that the poet's gift should show itself even in the texts of his sermons; yet no one who had not learned to reverence the Inward Light as the Society of Friends did, could follow it, in our own souls, and confirming the truth of outward Scripture by inward experience; when smooth stones from the brook of present revelation shall prove mightier than the weapons of Saul; when the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, as proclaimed by George Fox and lived by John Woolman, shall be recognised as the only efficient solvent of doubts raised by an age of restless inquiry. In this belief my letter was written. I am sorry it did not fall to the lot of a more fitting hand; and can only hope
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
Edward, 43. F. Faneuil Hall, Boston, 75. Farrar, Archdeacon, F. W., asks Whittier to write inscription for Milton Memorial Window, 181, 182; his letter to Whittier, 183. Federal Street, Boston, 60. Felice, Professor de, 167. Feuillevert family, 156. Fields, James T., 91, 102. Fields, Mrs. J. T., 86, 159, 174, 183; her Whittier, quoted, 65, 113, 117, 126-128, 140, 152, 172, 173, 175. Fisher, Mary, 84. Fletcher, J. C., 166, 167. Follymill, 141. Folsom, Abby, 81. Fox, George, 116, 124. France, 97. Freeman, the, mentioned, 115. Free Press, the, mentioned, 23, 25, 73. Free Soil party, 68. Friends' Review, mentioned, 121; quoted, 122-124. Friends, Society of, 2, 4, 10, 13, 17, 50, 51, 115, 116, 161, 162, 176; Whittier's relation to, 118-124. G. Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 112. Garrison, William Lloyd, 2, 18, 32, 34, 49-52, 57, 78, 81, 129, 135, 157; discovers Whittier, 21; his Life, quoted, 22-26, 49, 50, 61, 71; cited, 26 n.; mentioned, 67; vis