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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 9: a literary club and its organ. (search)
g on Thoreau the reverse end of a remarkably good telescope, pronounces him parochial, because he made the woods and waters of Concord, Massachusetts, his chief theme. The epithet is curiously infelicitous. To be parochial is to turn away from the great and look at the little; the daily newspapers of Paris afford the best illustration of this fault. It is not parochial, but the contrary, when Dr. Gould spends his life in watching the stars from his lonely observatory in Paraguay; or when Lafarge erects his isolated studio among the Paradise Rocks near Newport; or when Thoreau studies birds and bees, Iliads and Vedas, in his little cottage by Lake Walden. To look out of the little world into the great, that is enlargement; all else is parochialism. It is also to be remembered that people in America, in those days, if they had access to no great variety of thought, still had — as in the Indian's repartee about Time-all the thought there was. The sources of intellectual influence
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Index. (search)
dson, H. N., 211. Hunt, Leigh, 146. Hutchinson Family, the, 176. I. Indians, study of the, 196. Ireland, Mr., 221. Irish, defense of the, 214. Irving, Washington, 181, 132. J. Jacobs Sarah S., 80, 84. Jahn, F. L., 46. James, Henry, 134. Jameson, Anna, 195. Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 16, 45, 308. Jonson, Ben, 69, 134. K. Kant, Immanuel, 45, 282, 288. Kinney, Mr., letter from, 247. Kittredge, Rev. Mr., 63. Knapp, J. J., 39. Kneeland, Abner, 77. L. Lafarge, John, 134. Lafayette, Marquis de, 15. La Mennais, H. F. R. de, 280. Lane, Charles, 160, 166. Leonidas, 47. Lewes, G. H., 229. Longfellow H. W., criticisms on, 188, 204, 218, 193; other references, 131, 283, 293-295, 298. Loring, Mr. and Mrs. E. G., 122,128. Lowell, J. R., criticisms on, 217, 296; retaliation by, 5, 298 ; other references, 128,164, 176, 208, 216, 217, 298, 296-298. Lowell, Maria (White), 128, 272; letter from, 244. Lyric Glimpses, 286, 288. M. McDo
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 5., Grace Church, Medford. (search)
Adams Elliott. Died May 29, 1879. Aged 39 years. Erected by her parents. Right precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Fourth. A window on the south side to the memory of Mrs. Ellen Shepherd Brooks, Mrs. Brooks was the daughter of R. D. Shepherd, of Virginia. She was born at New Orleans August 22, 1809, married Gorham Brooks, April 20, 1829, and died at West Medford, August 11, 1884. erected by her sons, Peter Chardon and Shepherd Brooks. This window, by John LaFarge, of New York, is noted for its exquisite colors, and is a valuable artistic decoration to the church. The subject, Rebekah at the Well, is after a painting by Horace Vernet. At the base of the window is the inscription: In memory of our mother, Ellen Shepherd Brooks, 1884. In this window the mullions are removed, the glass occupying the entire space. Fifth. The brass cross and vases on the altar and re-table from Mrs. Dudley C. Hall. The cross is inscribed: A Thanksgiving Offering