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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, I. A Cambridge boyhood (search)
tional stanzas, more lately published; this was very fascinating, for it seemed like poetry in the making. Later, the successive volumes of Jared Sparks's historical biographies — Washington, Franklin, Morris, Ledyard, and the Library of American biography --were all the gift of their kindly author, who had often brought whole parcels of Washington's and Franklin's letters for my mother and aunt to look over. A set of Scott's novels was given to my elder brother by his life-long crony, John Holmes. Besides all this, the family belonged to a book club,--the first, I believe, of the now innumerable book clubs: of this my eldest brother was secretary, and I was permitted to keep, with pride and delight, the account of the books as they came and went. Add to this my mother's love of reading aloud, and it will be seen that there was more danger, for a child thus reared, of excess than of scarcity. Yet as a matter of fact I never had books enough, nor have I ever had to this day. S
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 4 (search)
self-subordination to these kings of to-morrow may come, in my own case, from the fact that I am, more than any one else now living in Cambridge, except perhaps John Holmes and Professor Norton, a child of the college; and the latter is my junior, and was once in my eyes one of these very boys. All three of us were, so to speak, b was Commencement Day, now a merely academic ceremonial, but then a public festival for eastern Massachusetts. It has been so well described by both Lowell and John Holmes that I will not dwell upon it in detail. The streets were filled with people, arriving from far and near; there were booths, fairs, horseraces, encampments ofst of the well-known writers whom New England was then producing,that it was he who trained Emerson, C. F. Adams, Hedge, A. P. Peabody, Felton, Hillard, Winthrop, Holmes, Sumner, Motley, Phillips, Bowen, Lovering, Torrey, Dana, Lowell, Thoreau, Hale, Thomas Hill, Child, Fitzedward Hall, Lane, and Norton,--it will be seen that the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, V. The fugitive slave epoch (search)
ards risked ourselves a great deal more to bring some trays of pickle-jars from the cellar,--but in the case of the venerable doctor the object was certainly worth all it cost us; for he was the progenitor of that admirable race upon which, as Dr. Holmes said to Professor Stowe, the fall of Adam had not left the slightest visible impression. This combination of motives was quite enough to make me wish that if there should be another fugitive slave case I might at least be there to see, and, at our heads. Often as I had heard of clubbing, I had never before known just how it felt, and to my surprise it was not half so bad as I expected. I was unarmed, but had taken boxing lessons at several different times, and perhaps felt, like Dr. Holmes's young man named John, that I had a new way of counterina I wanted to try; but hands were powerless against clubs, although my burly comrade wielded his lustily. All we could expect was to be a sort of clumsy Arnold Winkelrieds and make way f
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 8 (search)
mbination effected itself, and those who, like Holmes, had ridiculed the earlier movement found theml temperaments. Emerson, Hawthorne, Whittier, Holmes, Longfellow, and Lowell, to name only the sixsometimes crude, Hawthorne bloodless in style, Holmes a trifler, Longfellow occasionally commonplacefth number; it being later characterized by Holmes as an admirable paper, and he also designatinas decided to proceed without further delay, Dr. Holmes and I were detailed to escort the ladies to Stowe at Lowell's right, and Miss Prescott at Holmes's, I next to her, Edmund Quincy next to me. Drnts around the board, although I doubt whether Holmes, with water-drinkers two deep on each side of perhaps was not seriously disturbed even when Holmes assured him that there were in Boston whole fad too much the character of a dialogue between Holmes and Lowel. Neither of these had received the e than any other contributor except Lowell and Holmes. Fields was constantly urging me to attempt f[3 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
nlistment, 248; transfer to South Carolina, 252; first military expedition, 259; Army life in a black regiment, 266; Harvard memorial biographies, 270; Epictetus, 270; Malbone and Oldport days, 270; residence in Newport, 270; visits to London, 271; to Paris, 298; public speaking, 326; public office, Higginson, Waldo, 73. Hill, Thomas, 53, 105, 175. Hillard, G. S., 53, 175. Hinton, R. H., 215, 231. Hoar, E. R., 170, 175. Hoar, G. F., 162. Hoffman, Wickham, 62. Holmes, Abiel, 13. Holmes, John, 16, 39, 42. Holmes, O. W., 4, 13, 24, 31, 32, 53, 139, 154, 168, 171, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, z86. Homer, 92, Ioi. Hoole, John, 15. Hopkins, Louisa (Stone), 129. Home, R. H., 112. Horsford, E. N., 27. Houghton, Lord, 2, 289, 294, 297. Houghton, Mr., 34. Howard, John, 5. Howe, Julia Ward, 311. Howe, S. G., 142, 148, 150, 59, 176, 215, 221, 246. Howland, Joseph, 163. Hughes, Thomas, 297. Hugo, Victor, 298, 300, 301, 302, 303, 311, 313, 321. Humboldt, Baron F. H.