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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Afternoon landscape: poems and translations 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 24: Longfellow as a man (search)
most charming feature of the festival held on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Cambridge (December 28, 1880) was the reception given by a thousand grammar-school children to the gray and courteous old poet, who made then and there, almost for the only time in his life, and contrary to all previous expectations, a brief speech in reply. On that occasion he thus spoke briefly, at the call of the mayor, who presided, and who afterwards caused to be read by Mr. George Riddle, the verses From My Arm-Chair, which the poet had written for the children. He spoke as follows:— my dear young friends,—I do not rise to make an address to you, but to excuse myself from making one. I know the proverb says that he who excuses himself accuses himself,and I am willing on this occasion to accuse myself, for I feel very much as I suppose some of you do when you are suddenly called upon in your class room, and are obliged to say that you are not prepared. I am glad t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
shmataha, 79. Quincy, Edmund, 285. Quincy, Josiah, 122, 178; his letter to Longfellow offering professorship, 84, 85; Longfellow's letters to, 85-87, 155, 157, 158; his letter to Longfellow about absence, 159, 160. Quincy, Mrs., Josiah, 133, 158. Quincy, Miss, 158. Racine, Jean, 65, 176. Raleigh, Va., 82. Raynes, Capt., 131. Reboul, of Nimes, 191. Reed, E. J., 224. Revolution, American, the, 12,117. Rhine River, 131, 170, 193. Richter, Jean Paul, 64, 112, 113, 127. Riddle, George, 290. Riedesel, Baroness, 117. Robert College, 3. Robinson, Rowland, 198. Rolfe, Prof. William J., 8; on Longfellow, 287, 288. Rome, 132, 148, 215, 223. Rosendale, 94. Rossetti, Dante G., 190. Rotterdam, 107, 111. Round Hill School, 81. Routledge, Mr., 245. Rubens, Peter P., 161. Ruskin, John, 238, 262, 286; his Modern Painters, quoted, 237. Russia, 43. Russia, steamer, 219. Sachs, Hans, 234. Sacobezon, an Indian chief, 207. Sailly, Madame de, 47. St. Go