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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 76 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 22 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.) 18 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.) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 8 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
ch might wear him out, and practically did so, but nothing of pettiness or baseness; and his talk was calm, persuasive, and coherent. He was simply a high-minded, unselfish, belated Covenanter; a man whom Sir Walter Scott might have drawn, but whom such writers as Nicolay and Hay, for instance, have utterly failed to delineate. To describe him in their words as clean but coarse is curiously wide of the mark; he had no more of coarseness than was to be found in Habakkuk Mucklewrath or in George Eliot's Adam Bede; he had, on the contrary, that religious elevation which is itself a kind of refinement,--the quality one may see expressed in many a venerable Quaker face at yearly meeting. Coarseness absolutely repelled him; he was so strict as to the demeanor of his men that his band was always kept small, while that of Lane was large; he had little humor, and none of the humorist's temptation towards questionable conversation. Again, to call him ambitious to irritation, in the words of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Epilogue. (search)
it is something to believe it possible that, after the progress already made on the whole in these several directions, some future generation may see the fulfillment of what remains. To those who were living when the American nation lifted and threw off from its shoulders the vast incubus of human slavery, what other task can seem too great to be accomplished? In the presence of such a step in human progress as this, how trivial and unimportant are all personal ambitions! The high-water mark of earthly endeavor is not to be found in the pure love of science or art or literature, since these do not, at their utmost, include all the interests of man; nor in the wish to establish the glory of God, which needs no establishing; but it lies in aims so far-reaching that they exclude all petty personalities — in aims such as are expressed in George Eliot's choir invisible, or in the sublime prayer of the French iconoclast, Proudhon, Let my memory perish, if only humanity may be free.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
309, 310. Lamennais, H. F. R., Abbe de, 92, 93, 160. Lander, F. W., 264. Lander, Jean M., Mrs., 264, 265. Landor, W. S., 24, IOs, 112, 298. Lane, G. M., 53. Lane, J. H., 203, 204, 207, 208, 219, 230. Lang, Andrew, 273. Lanmer, Sidney, 230. Laplace, Marquis de, 50, 51. Lamed, Mr., 83. Laura, 76. Lazarus, Emma, 314. Le Barnes, J. W., 231, 232, 240. Lee, Mrs., Thomas, 87. Leighton, Caroline (Andrews), 129. Leland, C. G., 312, 314. Leroux, Pierre, 86. Lewes, Mrs. (George Eliot), 219. Lincoln, Abraham, 239, 261. Linnaeus, Charles von, 89, 92. literary London twenty years ago, 271-297. literary Paris twenty years ago, 298-325. Literature and Oratory compared, 360. Locke, John, 700. Lodge, H. C., 352. Long, J. D., 337, 354. Longfellow, H. W., 12, 13, 33, 54, 55, 67, 95, 101, 1002, 103, 1168, 171, 176, 178, 179, 180, 189, 313, 314, 331, 345. Longfellow, Samuel, 105. Loring, E. G., 141. Loring, G. B., 176. L'Ouverture, Toussaint, 270. Lovering,