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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 6 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.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Lucy Osgood. (search)
To Miss Lucy Osgood. Wayland, 1869. I have read a good many of Taine's papers on Art, and always with great zest. His descriptions of Venice in Les Deux Mondes is wonderfully glowing and poetic. It was almost like seeing that city of enchantment. Max Muller's Clips I have never seen. The greatest extravagance I have committed for years was buying his Science of language, price seven dollars, as a birthday present for my philological mate. His habit of digging for the origin of words has proved contagious, and he often expresses surprise at the help my quick guesses afford him in his patient researches. I resolutely read Max Muller's Science of language, and picked up a good many new ideas and valuable suggestions; but to read it with full understanding required a great deal more learning than I possess. A friend is accustomed to say that my bark is worse than my bite ; and it is something so with regard to my theological intolerance. For instance, I have given yearly t
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
Boston Athenaeum given to, and withdrawn from, her, 195, 264 ; cultivates cheerfulness, 196 ; reads the Spanish Gypsy, 197; her sixty-seventh birthday, 198; on Fourier and. the labor question, 199; her jubilation over Grant's election, 200; reads Taine's papers on art, 200 ; her Freedmen's book and the American Missionary Association, 201; her aversion to newspaper publicity, 201; her judgment of George Sand, 205; lines to George Thompson, 206; her appeal to Mr. Sumner in behalf of the rights ohild's Appeal, 77; the assault on, 78; calls on Mrs. Child, 88S; his position on the Mason and Slidell case, 163; Milmore's bust of, 187; letters to, 207. Swedenborg and the New Church, 20（2. Swedenborg's key of correspondences 75. T. Taine's (H. A.) papers on art 200. Tappan, Arthur, threatened with assassination, 15. Taylor, Father, anecdote of, 213. Texas question, J. Q. Adams's speeches on, VIII. The rebels; a Tale of the Revolution, VII. The right way the Safe w