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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 46 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Amsterdam. (search)
them from Holland. The church grew, and as there were freedom and toleration there in a degree, the population increased, and the Dutch were soon largely mixed with other nationalities When a stranger came, they did not ask him what was his creed or nation, but only, Do you want a lot and to become a citizen? The Hollanders had more enlarged views of the rights of conscience than any other people at that time. New, like old, Amsterdam became quite a cosmopolitan town. Of the latter, Andrew Marvell quaintly wrote: Hence Amsterdam, Turk, Christian, pagan, Jew, Staple of sects and mint of schism grew; That bank of conscience where not one so strange. Opinion but finds credit and exchange; In vain for Catholics ourselves we bear— The Universal Church is only there. When New Amsterdam was surrendered to the English (1664) it contained more than 300 houses and about 1,500 people. On the return of Governor Stuyvesant from his expedition against the Swedes on the Delaware he found
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 6: Lowell's closing years in Cambridge (search)
is life, receiving the Dante Club and the Modern Language Association as if each were the Royal Society. In looking back on London, too, he was able to see its limitations as well as its delights; was ready to recognize the barren fig-tree side of it, in Lord Houghton's phrase; the limitation and disappointment resulting from the very excess and hurry. It is the same side that we see in books of personal recollections, like Lady Eastlake's Diaries or Sir Frederick Pollock's Remembrances, where the writer goes from one brilliant breakfast or luncheon or dinner to the next, meeting all the wits and sages, and bringing away only two or three anecdotes. Lowell himself recognized all this limitation, yet delighted in the retrospect; skimmed for you the cream of it, and then took you out on the piazza to watch the squirrels and robins. Becoming again, in some sense, a recluse, he was such a recluse as Sir Henry Wotton might have been, or as the tenant of Andrew Marvell's garden. 1896
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Americanism in literature. (search)
ignore the nightingale and skylark, and look for the classic and romantic on our own soil. This change began mainly with Emerson. Some of us can recall the bewilderment with which his verses on the humblebee, for instance, were received, when the choice of subject caused as much wonder as the treatment. It was called a foolish affectation of the familiar. Happily the atmosphere of distance forms itself rapidly in a new land, and the poem has now as serene a place in literature as if Andrew Marvell had written it. The truly cosmopolitan writer is not he who carefully denudes his work of everything occasional and temporary, but he who makes his local coloring forever classic through the fascination of the dream it tells. Reason, imagination, passion, are universal; but sky, climate, costume, and even type of human character, belong to some one spot alone till they find an artist potent enough to stamp their associations on the memory of all the world. Whether his work be picture o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A letter to a young contributor. (search)
ur prison forever. How sparkling was Reade's crisp brilliancy in Peg Woffington! --but into what disagreeable affectations it has since degenerated! Carlyle was a boon to the human race, amid the tameness into which English style was declining; but who is not tired of him and his catchwords now? Now the age has outgrown him, and is approaching a mode of writing which unites the smoothness of the eighteenth century with the vital vigor of the seventeenth, so that Sir Thomas Browne and Andrew Marvell seem quite as near to us as Pope or Addison,a style penetrated with the best spirit of Carlyle, without a trace of Carlylism. Be neither too lax nor too precise in your use of language: the one fault ends in stiffness, the other in slang. Some one told the Emperor Tiberius that he might give citizenship to men, but not to words. To be sure, Louis XIV. in childhood, wishing for a carriage, called for mon carrosse, and made the former feminine a masculine to all future Frenchmen. Bu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Helen Jackson. ( H. H. ) (search)
whose love thine own should be, Called thee with steadfast voice of prophecy To shores unknown! O Love, poor Love, avail Thee nothing now thy faiths, thy braveries; There is no sun, no bloom; a cold wind strips The bitter foam from off the wave where dips No more thy prow; the eyes are hostile eyes; The gold is hidden; vain thy tears and cries: O Love, poor Love, why didst thou burn thy ships? Verses, p. 71. H. H. writes another class of poems, that, with a grace and wealth like Andrew Marvell's, carry us into the very life of external nature, or link it with the heart of man. Emerson's Humblebee is not a creation more fresh and wholesome than is My strawberry. O marvel, fruit of fruits, I pause To reckon thee. I ask what cause Set free so much of red from heats At core of earth, and mixed such sweets With sour and spice ; what was that strength Which out of darkness, length by length, Spun all thy shining thread of vine Netting the fields in bond as thine; I see thy tendr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, Water-Lilies (search)
ll secure a long and delicate stalk, fit to twine around the graceful head of your beloved, as the Hindoo goddess of beauty encircled with a Lotus the brow of Rama. Consider the lilies. All over our rural watercourses, at midsummer, float these cups of snow. They are Nature's symbols of coolness. They suggest to us the white garments of their Oriental worshippers. They come with the white roses, and prepare the way for the white lilies of the garden. The white doe of Rylstone and Andrew Marvell's fawn might fitly bathe amid their beauties. Yonder steep bank slopes down to the lake-side, one solid mass of pale pink laurel, but, once upon the water, a purer tint prevails. The pink fades into a lingering flush, and the white creature floats peerless, set in green without and gold within. That bright circle of stamens is the very ring with which Doges once wedded the Adriatic; Venice has lost it, but it dropped into the water-lily's bosom, and there it rests forever. So perfect
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
earnest statesmen and theologians,—that of Andrew Marvell, the friend of Milton, and Latin Secretaryn to the present generation. It is true that Marvell's political pamphlets were less elaborate andno means inconsiderable, would warrant. Andrew Marvell was born in Kingston-upon-Hull, in 1620. g integrity and irreproachable consistency of Marvell, as a statesman, have secured for him the hondean. It is the peculiar merit of Milton and Marvell, that in such an age they held fast their intIn the discharge of his duties as a statesman Marvell was as punctual and conscientious as our own air representation of the people. In 1672, Marvell engaged in a controversy with the famous Hight sottish neglect of our quiet and security. Marvell replied to him in a severely satirical pamphlet, which provoked a reply from the Doctor. Marvell rejoined, with a rare combination of wit and a their day, he would have scraped with old Andrew Marvell the bare blade-bone of poverty, or even la[13 more...]
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
Friends, and to hint at the effect of that act of justice and humanity upon the abolition of slavery throughout the world. At an early period after the organization of the Society, members of it emigrated to the Maryland, Carolina, Virginia, and New England colonies. The act of banishment enforced against dissenters under Charles II. consigned others of the sect to the West Indies, where their frugality, temperance, and thrift transmuted their intended punishment into a blessing. Andrew Marvell, the inflexible republican statesman, in some of the sweetest and tenderest lines in the English tongue, has happily described their condition:-- “What shall we do but sing His praise Who led us through the watery maze, Unto an isle so long unknown, And yet far kinder than our own He lands us on a grassy stage, Safe from the storms and prelates' rage; He gives us this eternal spring, Which here enamels everything, And sends the fowls to us in care, On daily visits through the air. He han
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Index of titles of prose writings (search)
130. Indian Civilization, VII. 232. Indian Question, The, VII. 238. International Arbitration, VII. 245. Italian Unity, VII. 229. Journal, John Woolman's, VII. 315. Justice and Expediency, VII. 9. Leggett, William, VI. 184. Lesson and our Duty, The, VII. 148. Lighting Up, The, v. 376. Little Iron Soldier, The, v. 251. Longfellow, VI. 311. Lord Ashley and the Thieves, VII. 221. Magicians and Witch Folk, v. 399. Margaret Smith's Journal, v. 9. Marvell, Andrew, VI. 87. Mirth and Medicine, VII. 374. My Summer with Dr. Singletary, v. 197. Nayler, James, VI. 69. O'Connell, Daniel, VI. 321. Old Newbury, VI. 312. Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, VI. 9. Old Way, The, VII. 360. Opium Eater, The, v. 278. Our Dumb Relations, VII. 242. Passaconaway, v. 258. Patucket Falls, v. 360. Peculiar Institutions of Massachusetts, VII. 209. Pilgrims of Plymouth, The, VI. 431. Placido, the Slave Poet, VI. 261. Poetry o