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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 1: old Cambridge (search)
ing; or possibly a defiant nap might be there indulged. I have often wished that I had learned from Lowell on which of them he sat during that Hallowe'en night when he watched there vainly for ghosts. Only one of these longer epitaphs was in English; and the frequent Eheu, or O spes inanis, in the others, made us feel that emotion as well as accuracy might exist in Latin. Modern cemeteries never seem to me very aweinspiring; but the old New England graveyards, especially in college towns, rs perhaps, but never of its financial treasures. I can find only one epitaph in the Cambridge churchyard which mentions that the person commemorated was a man of wealth; and that is on the grave of a non-collegiate man, whose inscription is in English. But we noticed that at the end of the tombstone of the Rev. Samuel Appleton, after all the sonorous Latin the climax came in those superb words from the English Vulgate: They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament. And t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
inst the town-boys, who were sometimes combative; and I think he occasionally protected Lowell also, who was small and slight. Lowell was not then a handsome boy, but he had very fine eyes and that Apollo look about the brow which lighted up a somewhat heavy face. He and I, with my brother and William Story, afterward eminent as a sculptor, had the happiness to be the only day scholars; for the school, although by no means one of the Dotheboys Hall type, was yet emphatically of the Early English style, the boys being ruled by a pretty strenuous birch during school hours, and at other times left herded together with little supervision. Story was already the intimate friend of Lowell, and rather took the lead of him, being then the Steerforth of the school, joyous, full of life, and variously accomplished. Many a time I have walked up and down what is now Brattle Street, listening reverently to the talk of these older boys, not always profitable, but sometimes most valuable. I
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.), Book III (continued) (search)
ilson Bright. The progress of modern philology in America thus belongs to the university era, and is detached from Ticknor. University production obtained its other great successes in the philology of the classics, of general linguistics, of English, and of the fine arts. The University of Virginia opened with several foreign teachers whom Jefferson's friend Francis W. Gilmer had engaged abroad. Its first professor of the Ancient Languages (1825-28) was George Long, who is best known fos, among much else, Ernst Curtius's theory that the migrating Ionians were only going back to their home land in Asia; the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the tenth century; and the origin of the English possessive case. They review Ellis's Early English pronunciation, and wittily demolish Ludwig Ross's Italiker und Graken. They contain, finally, perhaps the ripest and best known of Hadley's memoirs, that On the nature and theory of the Greek accent. In the light of such work, Whitney's opi
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.), Index (search)
5 Dutch and Quaker colonies, the, 193 Dutton, C. E., 159 Duvallon, Berquin, 591 Dwight, Timothy, 86, 432, 461, 471, 498, 499, 542 Dye, Mrs., Emery, 140 Dying cowboy, the, 510, 514 Dykes, 500 Earl of Pawtucket, the, 283 Early English pronunciation, 462 Early history of the Saturday Club, the, 306 n. Early Western travels, 165 Earth as modified by human action, the, 473 Easiest way, the, 290, 293 East and West poems, 53 East angels, 86 Eastern journeys, 16 Evarts, 122 Evening post (New York), 218, 327 Evening Sun (New York), 22 Everett, A. H., 431 Everett, C. C., 240 Everett, Edward, 415, 418, 449, 451, 452, 453, 455, 457 Evershed, Emilie, 597 Everybody's, 316, 317 Every day English, 474 Every Saturday, 36 Eve's diary, 20 Evolution and religion, 210 Evolution of Dodd, 419 Evolution of Trinitarianism, 207 Ewing, 337 Examen, 185 Examiner (San Fraicisco), 329 Examiner and journal of political Economy the,
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