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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work. 50 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Afternoon landscape: poems and translations 42 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 24 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 20 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 16 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 8 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work., An artist's creation. (search)
ok, his manly bearing and clear blue eyes, enhanced the fascination of her darker beauty. America is full of the short-lived bloom and freshness of girlhood; but it is a rare thing in one's life to see a beauty that really controls with a permanent charm. One must remember such personal loveliness, as one recalls some particular moonlight or sunset, with a special and concentrated joy, which the multiplicity of fainter impressions cannot disturb. When in those days we used to read, in Petrarch's one hundred and twenty-third sonnet, that he had once beheld on earth angelic manners and celestial charms, whose very remembrance was a delight and an affliction, since it made all else appear but dream and shadow, we could easily fancy that nature had certain permanent attributes which accompanied the name of Laura. Our Laura had that rich brunette beauty before which the mere snow and roses of the blonde must always seem wan and unimpassioned. In the superb suffusions of her cheek
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work., Sunshine and Petrarch. (search)
a. Sonnet 129. Lieti fiori e felici. Petrarch. O joyous, blossoming, ever-blessed flowers! mospheric film that hangs over these poems of Petrarch's; there is a delicate haze about the words, call? The airiest and most fugitive among Petrarch's love-poems, so far as I know,--showing least 123. Ia vidi in terra angelici costumi. Petrarch. I once beheld on earth celestial graces, And Sonnet 251. Gli occhi di cha io parlai. Petrarch. Those eyes, 'neath which my passionate raptuance. Sonnet 253. Soleasi nel mio cor. Petrarch. She ruled in beauty o'er this heart of mine,more intelligible, her precise influence upon Petrarch clearer. What delicate accuracy of delineati Laura. Sonnet 302. Gli angeli eletti. Petrarch. The holy angels and the spirits blest, Celesm and a Nunc dimittis. In the closing sonnets Petrarch withdraws from the world, and they seem like 309. Dicemi spesso il mio fidato speglio. Petrarch. Oft by my faithful mirror I am told, And by [14 more...]