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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 8: first years in Boston (search)
ich for a brief moment obscured all else to human vision. The great vitality of the German nation, the indefatigable research of its learned men, its wholesome balance of sense and spirit, all made themselves widely felt, and infused fresh blood into veins impoverished by ascetic views of life. Its philosophers were apostles of freedom, its poets sang the joy of living, not the bitterness of sin and death. These good things were brought to us piecemeal, by translations, by disciples. Dr. Hedge published an English rendering of some of the masterpieces of German prose. Longfellow gave us lovely versions of many poets. John S. Dwight produced his ever precious volume of translations of the minor poems of Goethe and Schiller. Margaret Fuller translated Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe. Carlyle wrote his wonderful essays, inspired by the new thought, and adding to it daring novelty of his own. The whole is matter of history now, quite beyond the domain of personal reminisce
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 13: the Boston Radical Club: Dr. F. H. Hedge (search)
t. To speak of my first impressions of Dr. F. H. Hedge, I must turn back to the autumn of 1841, ng would be held. I had never even heard of Dr. Hedge, but I listened to him with close attention,ground. Many years after this time, I asked Dr. Hedge what Margaret could have meant by this sayino care a great deal about some ministers. Dr. Hedge then mischievously reminded me of my speech stered the cumbrous and difficult language. Dr. Hedge's last removal was to Cambridge, whither he war through to a successful termination. Dr. Hedge had known Margaret Fuller well in her youth to make their usual calls. A sister of his, Dr. Hedge said, was the only one of those ladies who cd passed alone upon a mountain in Scotland. Dr. Hedge more than once said to me, Margaret experienccustomed grace. He made some little pun on Dr. Hedge's name, and the noble speaker quietly steppeests upon it still. It is well known that Dr. Hedge received the most important part of his educ[17 more...]
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
with Goethe, 147; life of, undertaken by Emerson, 158; criticizes Dr. Hedge's Phi Beta address, 296; highly esteemed by Dr. Hedge, 300; the sDr. Hedge, 300; the sixtieth anniversary of her birth celebrated, 301. Fuller, Mrs. Samuel R., goes to Santo Domingo with the Howes, 347. Galway, Lady, 98. artist, ball at his residence, 420, 421. Healy, Mrs., 420. Hedge, Dr. F. H., his translations, 147; member of the Radical Club, 282; defen277-280; her papers before the Radical Club, 287; pleasantry with Dr. Hedge, 297; increasing desire to write and speak, 304, 305; gives parlobes Canada: later books by, 42. Janauschek, Madame, visited by Dr. Hedge and Mrs. Howe in Boston, 299. Janin, Jules, French critic, frian's peace movement, 341. Lucia di Lammermoor, 104. Luther, Dr. Hedge's essay on, 301. Lynch, Dominick, introduces the first opera trting gift to Massachusetts, 263; his opinion of Emerson, 291; of Dr. Hedge, 298; sympathizes with Mrs. Howe's desire for expression, 305.