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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 21 (search)
red six numbers of a striking series called Lyrics of the Street. Most of these poems, with others, were included in a volume called Later Lyrics (1865). She had previously, however, in 1853, published her first volume of poems, entitled Passion flowers ; and these volumes were at a later period condensed into one by her daughters, with some omissions,--not always quite felicitous, as I think,--this definitive volume bearing the name From sunset ridge (1898). Mrs. Howe, like her friend Dr. Holmes, has perhaps had the disappointing experience of concentrating her sure prospects of fame on a single poem. What the Chambered Nautilus represents in his published volumes, the Battie Hymn of the Republic represents for her. In each case the poet was happy enough to secure, through influences impenetrable, one golden moment. Even this poem, in Mrs. Howe's case, was not (although many suppose otherwise) a song sung by all the soldiers. The resounding lyric of John Brown's body reached t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 24 (search)
ting excursions. There was Edwin P. Whipple, a man reared in business, not literature; but with an inexhaustible memory of books and a fertile gift for producing them, especially those requiring personal anecdote and plenty of it. There was Dr. O. W. Holmes, who came to Newport as the guest of the Astor family, parents of the present English author of that name. At their house I spent one evening with Holmes, who was in his most brilliant mood, at the end of which he had talked himself into suHolmes, who was in his most brilliant mood, at the end of which he had talked himself into such an attack of asthma that he had to bid adieu to Newport forever, after an early breakfast the next morning. There was the Reverend Charles T. Brooks, a man of angelic face and endless German translations, who made even Jean Paul readable and also unbelievable. There was Professor George Lane, from Harvard, a man so full of humor that people bought his new Latin Grammar merely for the fun to be got out of its notes. There was La Farge, just passing through the change which made a great ar
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
s yet hardly attempted. Our magazines tend more and more to become mainly picture-books, and our really creative authors are geographically scattered and, for the most part, wholesomely poor. We should always remember, moreover, what is true especially in these works of fiction, that not only individual books, but whole schools of them, emerge and disappear, like the flash of a revolving light; you must make the most of it while you have it. The highways of literature are spread over, said Holmes, with the shells of dead novels, each of which has been swallowed at a mouthful by the public, and is done with. In America, as in England, the leading literary groups are just now to be found less among the poets than among the writers of prose fiction. Of these younger authors, we have in America such men as Winston Churchill, Robert Grant, Hamlin Garland, Owen Wister, Arthur S. Pier, and George Wasson; any one of whom may at any moment surprise us by doing something better than the b
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
rly labors for the education of the people, and served with him in his later conflicts for freedom; and it would have been a grateful duty to have paid a tribute to him in a community where the older inhabitants still recalled his youth. Never in his life was Sumner more genial, more glad to see old friends,—those of his youth as well as of his manhood,— or more ready to make new acquaintances. He enjoyed the monthly dinners of the Saturday Club, where were Longfellow, Agassiz, Emerson, Holmes, J. M. Forbes, Dana, Judge Hoar, and others of like spirit. He was present, October 28, when the elder Dana was received with honor. Adams's Life of Dana, vol. II. p. 360. He was with the Radical Club at Mrs. John T. Sargent's, where, in the midst of a sympathetic circle, which included Wendell Phillips, James Freeman Clarke, and T. W. Higginson, he listened to John Weiss's paper on Portia. He was twice on the platform at the Music Hall when Mr. Bradlaugh, M. P., was the lecturer (Wend
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 9: no. 13
Chestnut Street
, Boston 1864; aet. 45 (search)
y speaks through the lips of her hero a pungent word on the subject:-- The raffle business is, I suppose, the great humbug of occasions of this kind. It seems to me very much like taking a front tooth from a certain number of persons in order to make up a set of teeth for a party who wants it and who does not want to pay for it. We should like to linger over the pages of the Boatswain's Whistle ; to quote from James Freeman Clarke's witty dialogues, Edward Everett's stately periods, Dr. Holmes's sparkling verse; to describe General Grant, the prize ox, white as driven snow and weighing 3900 pounds, presented by the owner to President Lincoln and by him to the fair. Did we not see him drawn in triumph through Boston streets on an open car, and realize in an instant-fresh from our Wonder-book --what Europa's bull looked like? But of all the treasures of the little paper. we must content ourselves with this dispatch:-- Allow me to wish you a great success. With the old
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 12: Greece and other lands 1867; aet. 48 (search)
rete, and in March, 1867, Dr. Howe sailed again for Greece on an errand of mercy. The Journal gives an outline of the busy winter:-- The post is the poor man's valet.... January 12. A busy and studious day; had the neighbors in after tea. Want clamors for relief, but calls for cure, which begins in discipline .... January 24. N. P. Willis's funeral. Chev came home quite suddenly and asked me to go with him to the church, St. Paul's. The pallbearers were Longfellow and Lowell, Drs. Holmes and Howe, Whipple and Fields, T. B. Aldrich and I don't know who. Coffin covered with flowers. Appearance of the family interesting: the widow bowed and closely shrouded. Thus ends a man of perhaps first-rate genius, ruined by the adoption of an utterly frivolous standard of labor and of life. George IV and Bulwer have to answer for some of these failures. My tea party was delightful, friendly, not fashionable. We had a good talk, and a lovely, familiar time. Heard J. F. C. Took my
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1865. (search)
deterring him, these facts were his chief attraction. He received his commission with pleasure; and with high resolves to make himself a thorough soldier,—a career for which he was admirably adapted in physique and mental power,—he hastened instantly to his post. Just eighteen years old, he joined his regiment at Fredericksburg, late on Saturday evening, May 2d, receiving a warm welcome from his brother officers. Early on the following morning began the battle of Chancellorsville. Captain O. W. Holmes was very soon wounded, and Lieutenant Paine took the command of his company, which place he held through that terrible day; and he was, according to all statements, calm and cool. Then came the forced marches which carried our army to Gettysburg, and the battle that followed. Wednesday and Thursday had left the fortunes of war trembling in the balance. On Friday, July 3, 1863, the Second Corps, under Hancock, held the left centre of our line, midway between the Cemetery and the R
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
rvice), I. 213, 214;, 423; II. 98. Hill, W. A., Lieut., I. 131; II. 8. Hindman, Gen. (Rebel service), I. 391. Hinks, E. W., Brig.-Gen., II 4, 35,156. Hoar, E. R., Judge, I. 255, 272;. Hoar, G. F., I. 441, 443;. Hodges, A. D., I. 327. Hodges, G. F., Memoir, I. 327-332. Hodges, J., II. 285. Hodges, John, Jr., Lieut.-Col., Memoir, II. 285-293. Hodges, Martha C., I. 327. Hodges, Mary O., II. 285. Hodges, R. M., Rev., I. 42. Holman, G. F., Capt., II. 324. Holmes, O. W., Jr., Col., II. 106, 251;, 454. Hood, J. B., Maj.-Gen. (Rebel service), II. 59, 271;, 436, 445. Hooker, Joseph, Maj.-Gen., I. 81, 93;, 102, 124, 142, 147, 219, 267, 341, 427; II. 95, 232;, 344, 346, 398, 399, 401. Hooper, Anne, I. 189. Hooper, Nathaniel L., I. 190. Hooper, Samuel, I. 189. Hooper, William, II. 163. Hooper, W. S., Capt., Memoir, I. 189-203. Hopkinson, Corinna, II. 21. Hopkinson, F. C., Private, Memoir, II. 21-29. Also, II. 202. Hopkinson,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
me than I have hitherto done, in order that your absence may be less severely felt. While this question remained unsettled, no time was lost with regard to Mr. Bates's new donations. Mr. Ticknor immediately began personally to collect, from men distinguished in special departments, lists of works on their several subjects, which ought to be on the shelves of a great library, thus getting contributions of much consequence from such men as Professors Agassiz, Bond, Cooke, Felton, Hayward, Holmes, Lovering, Pierce, and Dr. John Ware; from Professor W. B. Rogers and Judge Curtis; from Colonel Thayer of the Army and Captain Goldsborough of the Navy; from engineers and architects, clergymen and men of letters. With these, and with all the bibliographical resources they could command, Mr. Ticknor and Mr. Jewett worked, in Mr. Ticknor's library, for more than two months, Mr. Jewett remaining there eight hours a day, preparing the lists that were to be sent to Mr. Bates. These lists, emb
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
olland House, I. 295, 408, 418, II. 176, 181, 361, 367, 370, 873, 383, 384. Holland, Lord (Third), I. 263, 264, 265, 267, 294, 408, 418, 422, II. 146, 147, 149, 150, 176, 182; Spanish library, I. 457; Lady, 264 and note, 265, 408, 409, II. 147, 149, 177. Holland, Lord (Fourth), II. 359, 366, 373, 884; Lady, 367, 369, 373, 379, 383. Holland, Dr. (Sir Henry), I. 446, II. 146, 151, 152, 259, 326, 71, 384, 489, 463. Holland, Queen of, II. 371, 381. Hollond, Mr., II. 479. Holmes, Dr. O. W., II. 310. Hopkinson, Francis, I. 15. Hopkinson, Judge, I. 15. Hopkinson, Mrs., I. 16. Horner, Francis, II. 150, 468. Horner, Leonard, II. 332, 358, 409. Horner, Mrs. L., II. 332, 358, 359, 360, 409. Hosmer, Miss Harriet G., II. 371, 383, 384. House of Commons, G. T. called before Committee of, I. 415; debate in, 416; debate in, II. 378. House of Lords, debate in, II. 365. Houston, General S. . I. 372, 373, 374. Huber, Francois, I. 156, 157, II. 37. Huber, V.
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