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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 110 0 Browse Search
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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.) 24 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 5 (search)
uld have helped me; they would have compelled me to concentration, but perhaps I may have absolutely needed some such period of intellectual wild oats. This was in September, 1843. I read in that year, and a subsequent similar year, the most desultory and disconnected books, the larger the better: Newton's Principia and Whewell's Mechanical Euclid; Ritter's History of Ancient philosophy; Sismondi's Decline and fall of the Roman empire; Lamennais' Paroles d'un Croyant and Livre du Peuple; Homer and Hesiod; Linnaeus's Correspondence; Emerson over and over. Fortunately I kept up outdoor life also and learned the point where books and nature meet; learned that Chaucer belongs to spring, German romance to summer nights, Amadis de Gaul and the Morte d'arthur to the Christmas time; and found that books of natural history, in Thoreau's phrase, furnish the cheerfulest winter reading. Bettine Brentano and Gunderodethe correspondence between the two maidens being just then translated by Ma
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 6 (search)
and Imaginary conversations. Maria Lowell lent me also Landor's Pentameron, a book with exquisite passages; Alford's poems, then new, and, as she said, valuable for their simplicity; and the fiery German lays of Hoffmann von Fallersleben, some of which I translated, as was also the case with poems from Ruckert and Freiligrath, besides making a beginning at a version of the Swedish epic Frithiof's Saga, which Longfellow admired, and of Fredrika Bremer's novel, The H — family. I returned to Homer and Dante in the originals, and read something of Plato in Cousin's French translation, with an occasional reference to the Greek text. Some verses were contributed by me, as well as by my sister Louisa, at various times, to The Harbinger, published at Brook Farm and edited by the late Charles A. Dana. My first poem, suggested by the fine copy of the Sistine Madonna which had been my housemate at Brookline, had, however, been printed in The present, a short-lived magazine edited by my c
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
vard 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. A. von, 272. Hunter, David, 253, 256, 261, 262. Huntin, A., 225. Hurlbert (originally Hurlbut), W. H., 107, 109, 1