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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 6: marriage and life at Brunswick (search)
American poems in these volumes, Bryant's Death of the Flowers, especially the last verse, which describes a woman who died in her youthful beauty. To these are added books of maturer counsel, as Miss Bowdler's Poems and Essays, then reprinted from the sixteenth English edition, but now forgotten, and Mrs. Barbauld's Legacy for Young Ladies, discussing beauty, fashion, botany, the uses of history, and especially including a somewhat elaborate essay on female studies, on which, perhaps, Judge Potter founded his prohibition of the classics. Mrs. Barbauld lays down the rule that the learned languages, the Greek especially, require a great deal more time than a young woman can conveniently spare. To the Latin, she adds, there is not an equal objection . . . and it will not, she thinks, in the present state of things, excite either a smile or a stare in fashionable company. But she afterwards says, French you are not only permitted to learn, but you are laid under the same necessity o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
6, 192, 193, 264. Phillips, Wendell, 285. Pierce, Mrs. Anne (Longfellow), 91, 92, 100. Pierce, George W., 81, 91, 99,112. Pierpont, Rev., John, 145. Platen, Count von, 191. Pliny, 54. Plymouth, Mass., 12. Poe, Edgar A., 6, 10, 142-144, 168, 259, 267, 269, 276; admiration of Longfellow, 141; influence of, 268. Pope, Alexander, 40. Portland, Me., 11, 13, 14, 19, 57, 60, 61, 87, 98, 106, 172, 189. Portland Academy, 15-17. Portland Gazette, the, 22. Potomac River, 116. Potter, Anne (Storer), 60. Potter, Hon., Barrett, 60, 63; Longfellow's letter to, about his wife's death, 107-111. Potter, Eliza A., 109-111; Longfellow's letter to, 113-115; Longfellow's letter to, announcing his engagement, 172; Frances Appleton's letter to, 174, 175. Potter, Margaret. See Thacher, Mrs. Peter. Potter, Mary Storer. See Longfellow, Mary S. P. Pratt, Dexter, 289. Prescott, William H., 146, 161; on Longfellow's poems, 149. Prothero, Canon, presides at Longfellow co