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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 136 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Afternoon landscape: poems and translations 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 2 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
ame Guion would have been far more useful had she been merely pretty and an ignoramus, such as Nature made her,--that Ruth and Naomi could not read, and Boaz probably would never have married into the family, had they possessed that accomplishment,that the Spartan women did not know the alphabet, nor the Amazons, nor Penelope, nor Andromache, nor Lucretia, nor Joan of Arc, nor Petrarch's Laura, nor the daughters of Charlemagne, nor the three hundred and sixty-five wives of Mohammed; but that Sappho and Madame de Maintenon could read altogether too well; while the case of Saint Brigitta, who brought forth twelve children and twelve books, was clearly exceptional, and afforded no safe precedent. It would seem that the brilliant Frenchman touched the root of the matter. Ought women to learn the alphabet? There the whole question lies. Concede this little fulcrum, and Archimedes will move the world before she has done with it: it becomes merely a question of time. Resistance must be
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Sappho. (search)
arns how to strike the harp with the plectron, Sappho's invention; Mnasidica embroiders a sacred rob said Strabo, writing a little before our era, Sappho, a wondrous creature; for we know not any womanor Euripides, why should his successors spare Sappho? Therefore the reckless comic authors of th only a pretty fable. He took up the tale of Sappho, conjured up a certain Phaon, with whom she mieucadian leap could not purge. Finally, since Sappho was a heathen, a theologian was found at last l, for instance, says of it: The tenderness of Sappho, whose character has been rescued, by one of twas this Lesbian school that assembled around Sappho? Mure pronounces it to have been a school of and appealed to Sappho, who thus replied:-- Sappho's solution. A letter is a thing essentiallyt it seems rather a pity that this memorial of Sappho should be preserved, while her solemn hymns andess or of dame. It is of little consequence; Sappho doubtless had lovers, and one of them may as w[54 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Sappho's riddle. (search)
Sappho's riddle. There is a feminine creature who bears in her bosom a voiceless brood; yet they send forth a clear voice, over sea and land, to whatsoever mortals they will; the absent hear it; so do the deaf. This is the riddle, as recorded by Antiphanes, and preserved by Athenaeus. It appears that somebody tried to guess it. The feminine creature, he thought, was the state. The brood must be the orators, to be sure, whose voices reached beyond the seas, as far as Asia and Thrace, ane. The brood must be the orators, to be sure, whose voices reached beyond the seas, as far as Asia and Thrace, and brought back thence something to their own advantage; while the community sat dumb and deaf amid their railings. This seemed plausible, but somebody else objected to the solution; for who ever knew an orator to be silent, he said, until he was put down by force? All of which sounds quite American and modern. But he gave it up, at last, and appealed to Sappho, who thus replied:--
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Sappho's solution. (search)
Sappho's solution. A letter is a thing essentially feminine in its character. It bears a brood in its bosom named the alphabet. They are voiceless, yet speak to whom they will; and if any man shall stand next to him who reads, will he not hear?