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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 5 (search)
III. the period of the newness Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven. Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book XI. The above was the high-sounding name which was claimed for their own time by the youths and maidens who, under the guidance of Emerson, Parker, and others, took a share in the seething epoch sometimes called vaguely Transcendentalism. But as these chapters are to be mainly autobiographic, it is well to state with just what outfit I left college in 1841. I had a rather shallow reading knowledge of six languages, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, and Greek, and had been brought in contact with some of the best books in each of these tongues. I may here add that I picked up at a later period German, Portuguese, and Hebrew, with a little Swedish; and that I hope to live long enough to learn at least the alphabet in Russian. Then I had acquired enough of the higher mathematics to have a pupil or two in that branch; something of the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 8 (search)
, but when Darwin's great discoveries were yet to be achieved. In Worcester I did a great deal in the way of field observation, and organized, with Hale and others, the local Natural History Society, one branch of which, the botanical club, still bears my name. I also read many books on anthropology, and wrote for the Atlantic various essays on kindred themes, which were afterwards published in a volume as Out-door papers. The preparation for this work gave that enormity of pleasure, in Wordsworth's phrase, which only the habit of minute and written observation can convey; and I had many happy days, especially in the then unprofaned regions of Lake Quinsigamond. With all this revived the old love of athletic exercises: I was president of a gymnastic club, a skating club, and a cricket club, playing in several match games with the latter. I never actually belonged to a volunteer engine company, such as then existed everywhere,--it is a wonder that I did not,--but was elected an ho
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 11 (search)
erary cycle from that on which Emerson looked back in 1843. He then wrote that Europe had already lost ground; that it was not as in the golden days when the same town would show the traveler the noble heads of Scott, of Mackintosh, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Cuvier, and Humboldt. Yet I scarcely missed even these heads, nearly thirty years later than the time when he wrote, in the prospect of seeing Carlyle, Darwin, Tennyson, Browning, Tyndall, Huxley, Matthew Arnold, and Froude, with many minor yowledge which one sees in his poems; he pointed out, for instance, which ferns were American, and which had been attempted in this country, but had refused to grow. He talked freely about his own books, and it seemed to me that he must be like Wordsworth, as we find him in the descriptions of contemporaries,--a little too isolated in his daily life, and too much absorbed in the creations of his own fancy. Lord Houghton, his lifelong friend, said to me afterwards, Tennyson likes unmixed flatter
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 13 (search)
gain, during my service in the legislature, when some member had been sent there by his town, mainly to get one thing done,--a boundary changed or a local railway chartered,--he has come to me with an urgent request to make his speech for him; and I have tried to convince him of the universal truth that a single-speech man who has never before opened his lips, but who understands his question through and through, will be to other members a welcome relief from a voice they hear too often. Wordsworth says:--I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas I the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. I have much oftener been saddened by the too great deference of men who were my superiors in everything but a diploma than I have been amazed by their jealousy or distrust. It is my firm conviction that there never was an honester body of men, on the whole, than the two Massachusetts legislatures with which I served in 1880 and 188 . If there has been
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
. Wendell, Barrett, 52. Wentworth, Amy, 8. Weyman, Stanley, 29. Whewell, William, 92, 101. Whipple, E. P., 170, 176. White, A. D. , 312. White, Blanco, 183. White, William, 126. White fugitive slaves, 146. Whitman, Walt, 230, 231, 289. Whittier, J. G., 8, 111, 128, 132, 133, 134, 135, 168, 171, 178, 179, 180, 185, 237. Whittier, Elizabeth, 133, 134. Wightman, Mayor, 244. Wilberforce, William, 327. Wilder, S. V. S., 10. Willis, Mr. 233. Willis, N. P., 95, 271. Wilson, Billy, 231. Wimpffen, General, 324 Wines, E. C., 310. Winkelried, Arnold, 154. Winnemucca, Sarah, 87. Winthrop, R. C., 53. Winthrop, Theodore, 107. Wise, H. A., 224, 225. Woman's Rights Movement, 120. Woman Suffrage, 121. Woodward, Rufus, 62. Wordsworth, William, 69, 194, 272, 294, 338. Wnght, H. C., 113. Wyman, J C., 176, 178. Xanthus, 112. Zaccone, M., 313. Zamacois, Eduardo, 295. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A. Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton and co.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 59 (search)
perb proportions as cast carelessly along the horizon and protecting her lover by their vast shade. Browning, more powerfully, describes the hills as gathering round his Childe Roland to watch the hour of danger beneath the Dark Tower: The dying sunset kindled through a cleft; The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay, Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay- Now stab and end the creature — to the heft! And even the gentle Charles Lamb, reluctantly torn from London streets to visit Wordsworth and Coleridge at the English Lakes, could not escape this same circle of gigantic figures, and found them protecting and kindly as he looked from his window at night: Glorious creatures, fine old fellows, Skiddaw, etc. There is so much that is personal in the presence of even the smallest isolated mountain that it is impossible not to endow it with almost human attributes. The Indians carried this so far as to imagine a deity as presiding over each mysterious peak, and punishing those r
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
e under the names of men, 259. Wife, position of, in Rome, 45. Will, breaking of, in children, 1°1. Willis, N. P., 289. Winlock, Anna, 287. Wolcott, Mrs., Oliver, 98. Wollstonecraft, Mary. See Godwin. woman of influence, the, 17. woman's enterprise, A, 207. Women, advantages of, 29; as household decorators, 161; as organizers, 20, 149; as public speakers, 239; authors, 18; courage of, 142; disadvantages of, 12, 92; earnings of, 119; education of, 88; employments of, 60, 161,269; plurality of, 38; teachers, 20, 100, 131, 244; their need of strength, 59; working among men, 10; writing under men's names, 259. women as household decorators, 161. Women's Christian Temperance Union, the, 25. women's influence on literary style, 85. women's letters, 110. Wordsworth, William, 302. Worth, M., 17. Wright, C. D., 38. Wright, Thomas, quoted, 148. X. Xanthippe, 81. Y. Yale University, 99. Youth, the flood-tide of, 48. Z. Zeus, 45. The end
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
club. He was constantly adding to his own collections of books, and wrote, My library is now becoming rather imposing. His principal companion in the school seems to have been Mr. Samuel Longfellow, brother of the poet, who was one year in advance of Wentworth. About this friend he said, He is a beautiful soul, though there is a certain shadow of reserve about him. He spoke of his sister Mrs. Fanny [Mrs. H. W. Longfellow]. I got a charming idea of the household goddess. She was just Wordsworth's phantom of delight, he said. While living in Divinity Hall Higginson formed a romantic attachment for a brilliant youth named Hurlbut, who was also a theological student. This friendship was destined to make a permanent impression on Wentworth's life, being freighted with much joy, but ending in deep sorrow. During his first year in the school, our young theologian came into contact with an older student named Greene who had great influence over him. Now has this man of real g
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
ued:— Found a very pleasant circle of English and American men. I enjoyed also meeting Wm. Wordsworth, grandson of the poet and himself a minor poet,—a most distinguished looking man, a handsome likeness of his grandpapa. And later:— To tea at William Wordsworth's, returning on donkeys. W. W. is the favorite grandson of the poet. The next extract is from a Florence letter:— region. From Grasmere Colonel Higginson wrote:— My wife and I drove out to Rydal Mount, Wordsworth's later home, and as we stood looking through the gate a very pleasing man came from among theed and said that his wife was the niece of my Capri friend. He showed us over the place where Wordsworth used to walk up and down and declaim his verses aloud before going to have his sister pick 'em time to inspect us. What interested me most in the house was a really remarkable painting of Wordsworth by Haydon, a painter who always interested me by his tragic career; a picture of which the
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
Suffrage, rights of women, 73, 92, 93, 137, 138, 141; convention, 134-36, 266; Bill, 296, 297; in England, 331, 340. Worcester, Free Church at, 115, 121-23; people of, 118, 119; free public library at, 140. Worden, Capt., 260, 261. Wordsworth, William, home of, described, 357, 358. Wordsworth, William, grandson of poet, 357; Higginson visits, 355. Young Folks' History of the United States, 365, 413, 415; Higginson asked to write, 284; work on, 285; great success of, 285, 286, 288;omen, 73, 92, 93, 137, 138, 141; convention, 134-36, 266; Bill, 296, 297; in England, 331, 340. Worcester, Free Church at, 115, 121-23; people of, 118, 119; free public library at, 140. Worden, Capt., 260, 261. Wordsworth, William, home of, described, 357, 358. Wordsworth, William, grandson of poet, 357; Higginson visits, 355. Young Folks' History of the United States, 365, 413, 415; Higginson asked to write, 284; work on, 285; great success of, 285, 286, 288; revision, 308, 396.
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