hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 70 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 18 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 15 1 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 14 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 12 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 9 1 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 6 2 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men. You can also browse the collection for O. W. Holmes or search for O. W. Holmes in all documents.

Your search returned 5 results in 5 document sections:

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, X. The flood-tide of youth. (search)
n dwelling amid this ever-rising tide. As Algernon in Patience regards himself as a trustee for beauty, to preserve it, show it, and make the most of it, so these exuberant children are trustees for youth. It is amusing to notice that sometimes, indeed, they, like Algernon, grow weary of their trust, and even enjoy assuming the attitudes of old age a little while. No white-haired man is so old-or would be, if he could help it — as many a college bard at twenty who writes for himself, as Dr. Holmes wrote when little more than that age: Alas! the morning dew is gone- Gone ere the full of day. How delicious it is to boast of age when one is young, and of misery when one is happy! It is like the delight of a fresh young girl at wearing hair-powder and attempting to look old; the more venerable the fashion, the more radiant becomes her blooming youth; but let her hair really grow gray for a day, and see how she likes it! Yet hence with the cruel suggestion! Why should we know
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 19 (search)
k of travels, in which he kindly gave his own verdict of approval or condemnation of the society which had made an exception from its general standard of good-breeding when it admitted him? Who has not heard some English lecturer, while coiling and uncoiling himself into and out of positions of inconceivable awkwardness, dole out elementary lessons on literature and science, as it were in words of one syllable, to audiences which had heard these same themes discussed by Agassiz or Rogers or Holmes? And who has not subsequently read that worthy man's book or magazine essay, in which he perhaps benignantly complimented the intelligence of his audience --an intelligence which he never could fairly compute, since he never found out how it had criticised him. I forget which of these excellent gentlemen it was who gravely recommended to the good people of Boston a wholly new means of mental improvement-reading aloud in the evening! What is it that carries us calmly through these inflicti
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 30 (search)
as to foretell pretty accurately what his judgment would be. As to coaxing him against his judgment, it was impossible. In truth, literary men are secretly rather distrusted by editors, and with some reason, as. having too many favorites and being too lenient. The late Professor Longfellow, for instance, would soon have bankrupted any publisher who should have accepted the intellectual work that he praised, for he was so amiable that he praised almost everything; and there is evidence that Holmes and Whittier, as they grow older, are growing almost as tolerant. If the best literary endorsement thus goes for very little, what can the second-best be worth? Moreover, the editor is constantly looking out for new names; he hungers and thirsts after the genius of the future. Just as the great trotting horses of the turf fare often those which the keen eye of a jockey has rescued from a dray or a coal-cart, so it is the editor's dream to detect a coming Mark Twain or Bret Harte in some n
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 40 (search)
ake ten thousand dollars before breakfast by simply marking up the prices of all his goods. The question still remained whether this would increase their value when it came to the actual sale; and so it is plain that young people may go on thinking better and better of their own literary talents, and yet it will not help them one step towards success unless the public takes a similar view. What good does it do, although your poetry seems to you better than Longfellow's and your prose than Holmes's, so long as the community-or the editor, who is merely the purveyor or steward for the community-cannot be led to the same opinion? You can cherish your genius in silence as much as you please; you can be content with the applause of your cousins and your pastor; you can publish your works at your own expense, and wait for posterity to applaud. Any of these things you can do, as many have done before you; but if you wish for a success more stimulating or more lucrative than this, you mus
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
303. Griswold, R. W., 289. Gymnastics, elevation of, 64. H. Hair, the uses of, 2. Hale, E. E., 206. Hale, H. E., his theory of language. 181. Hale, Lucretia, 40. Harem, Shadow of the, 12. Harland, Marion, 13. Harte, Bret, 132, 153, 224. Harvard University, 88, 275, 287. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, quoted, 105. Hayley, William, 113. Hayne, P. H., quoted, 223. Hemans, F. D., 18, 19. hills, A return to the, 301. Histoire Litteraire des Femmes Francaises, 252. Holmes, Dr. O. W., quoted, 51. Also 96, 153, 203. home, American love of, 281. home, the Creator of the, 28. Homer, 8, 203. Homes, occasional permanence of, in America, 283. Hood, Thomas, 19. Horse-chestnuts, the value of, 295. house of Cards, A, 138. House of Lords, English, decline of, 136. Household decoration, stages of, 161. household decorators, women as, 161. House-keeping in America, 72, 116; in England, 73. Howells, W. 1)., quoted, 40, 52, 64, 194. Also 102,