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Harriet Prescott (search for this): chapter 4
nses and images. But he never became reconciled to his work, and wrote in November: To Teaching I have an utter and entire aversion—I love children passionately and am able to attach them and to discipline them, but I am not fitted for an intellectual guide and I hate the office; and added I read the Theory of Teaching (which put me in despair). The school was often held out of doors, and one of the features was a course of talks to the boys on animals. In 1852, Higginson wrote to Harriet Prescott:— When I was of your age and had scholars like you,—or as you will,—I used to take them long walks and teach them to use their senses. We used sometimes to have school in a wood beside the house or in a great apple tree; and once on a rock in the wood there came to us a new scholar, a little weasel who glided among us with his slender sinuous body and glittering eyes, while we sat breathless to watch him. I fancy the boys will remember that little visitor longer than any of thei
J. T. Sargent (search for this): chapter 4
ry who supports himself by writing. He is enabled to do this as his expenses are very small. Ellery says he [Hawthorne] might live for $300, as he does at Concord —there his farm gives apples enough to pay his rent, $75. He sells these and fishes in the river in summer. His magazine articles are paid higher than any one's except Willis who gets $5 a page. He could get what he chooses, probably $30, $40 or $50 an article. He is to be a regular contributor to three magazines—the Pioneer, Sargent's, and the Democratic Review. This of course would give him $1000 to $1500 a year. He writes very slowly and elaborately. Willis probably can get $50 for an article. In planning his future, the young tutor wrote:— Spent the whole morning at home—reading Richter's Life and meditating and made the day an era in my life by fixing the resolution of not studying a profession. . . . The resolve is perfectly settled and perfectly tranquil with me, that I will come as near starving as
Leeds (search for this): chapter 4
om seven to eight, described in the journal as the cursed evening school, which prevented other more attractive plans. His favorite pupil, out of school hours, was Daniel Curtis, whose brilliant witticisms were often quoted in after years. Although Curtis was studious, he gave a great deal of trouble to his boyish preceptor. He was probably the author of this clever description of the young teacher which the latter captured as it was going the rounds of the school:— Our tutor feeds At Madam Leeds, And is none the thinner Postquam dinner Est semper clever, Morosus never. Et nunquam hollers At the scholars, But whenever they caper Transcribes them to paper. The friendly teacher sometimes took Curtis with him to make evening calls on young ladies. Returning quite late on one occasion the daring pupil reached his room by way of the waterspout, for which adventure his tutor was reprimanded. Another imprudent action on the part of the boyish teacher which naturally aroused cr
Sterling (search for this): chapter 4
Mr. Longfellow included the poem in his volume called The Estray, the youth's cup was full. In Brookline, the young man had plenty of leisure for his favorite pursuits, for he wrote:— I have taken up reading very strong,—am much interested in Carlyle's Miscellanies and have quite a fancy for German—have begun to dabble a little in the study of it—next winter I shall go into languages wholesale. And in one evening he perpetrated four sonnets to Longfellow, Motherwell, Tennyson, and Sterling,— good—the best things perhaps I've written. From Ellery Channing he gleaned some items about the profits of literature:— Ellery has just been telling me about Hawthorne whom he thinks the only man in the country who supports himself by writing. He is enabled to do this as his expenses are very small. Ellery says he [Hawthorne] might live for $300, as he does at Concord —there his farm gives apples enough to pay his rent, $75. He sells these and fishes in the river in sum
German (search for this): chapter 4
at beautiful thing. Going to the Craigie house one day he saw Mrs. H. W. Longfellow, who said more things about the Madonna, and looked things unutterable out of her unfathomable eyes; and when Mr. Longfellow included the poem in his volume called The Estray, the youth's cup was full. In Brookline, the young man had plenty of leisure for his favorite pursuits, for he wrote:— I have taken up reading very strong,—am much interested in Carlyle's Miscellanies and have quite a fancy for German—have begun to dabble a little in the study of it—next winter I shall go into languages wholesale. And in one evening he perpetrated four sonnets to Longfellow, Motherwell, Tennyson, and Sterling,— good—the best things perhaps I've written. From Ellery Channing he gleaned some items about the profits of literature:— Ellery has just been telling me about Hawthorne whom he thinks the only man in the country who supports himself by writing. He is enabled to do this as his expense
Walter Channing (search for this): chapter 4
e, and to bed 10 1/2– 11 regularly. Thus you see our life is systematic and simple—the aforesaid three-handed whist is as great a blessing as Homeopathy. The Brookline stay was eventful, because under new influences Wentworth Higginson rapidly developed and matured. There was a large circle of relatives within a radius of a few miles, and he took part in their frequent meetings and merrymakings. It was in Brookline that he first met his second cousin, Mary Channing, daughter of Dr. Walter Channing, and sister of the Concord poet, Ellery Channing. A few years older than himself, unworldly, intellectual, and brilliant in conversation, she proved a congenial companion. She was a frequent visitor at the Perkins homestead, and after an acquaintance of a few months the cousins became engaged, Higginson being then a youth of nineteen. One of the absorbing interests of his little world at this time was magnetism, various members of the circle trying experiments upon each other. N
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (search for this): chapter 4
of successful authorship. He quotes from a friend's letter: Ma wishes me to enquire with more remarks than I have room for who wrote the Madonna and Child. It is much admired and copied here and is said to be by some one of the name of Higginson. The young poet adds, It's quite exciting, is n't it? Some months later, Rev. Samuel Johnson, then a divinity student, said in reference to these verses, Then you did write that beautiful thing. Going to the Craigie house one day he saw Mrs. H. W. Longfellow, who said more things about the Madonna, and looked things unutterable out of her unfathomable eyes; and when Mr. Longfellow included the poem in his volume called The Estray, the youth's cup was full. In Brookline, the young man had plenty of leisure for his favorite pursuits, for he wrote:— I have taken up reading very strong,—am much interested in Carlyle's Miscellanies and have quite a fancy for German—have begun to dabble a little in the study of it—next winter I shall
Thomas Carlyle (search for this): chapter 4
reference to these verses, Then you did write that beautiful thing. Going to the Craigie house one day he saw Mrs. H. W. Longfellow, who said more things about the Madonna, and looked things unutterable out of her unfathomable eyes; and when Mr. Longfellow included the poem in his volume called The Estray, the youth's cup was full. In Brookline, the young man had plenty of leisure for his favorite pursuits, for he wrote:— I have taken up reading very strong,—am much interested in Carlyle's Miscellanies and have quite a fancy for German—have begun to dabble a little in the study of it—next winter I shall go into languages wholesale. And in one evening he perpetrated four sonnets to Longfellow, Motherwell, Tennyson, and Sterling,— good—the best things perhaps I've written. From Ellery Channing he gleaned some items about the profits of literature:— Ellery has just been telling me about Hawthorne whom he thinks the only man in the country who supports himself by
Samuel Johnson (search for this): chapter 4
ing the Brookline stay that Wentworth wrote and published what he called his first poem, the one on the Sistine Madonna, and he now began to feel some of the thrills of successful authorship. He quotes from a friend's letter: Ma wishes me to enquire with more remarks than I have room for who wrote the Madonna and Child. It is much admired and copied here and is said to be by some one of the name of Higginson. The young poet adds, It's quite exciting, is n't it? Some months later, Rev. Samuel Johnson, then a divinity student, said in reference to these verses, Then you did write that beautiful thing. Going to the Craigie house one day he saw Mrs. H. W. Longfellow, who said more things about the Madonna, and looked things unutterable out of her unfathomable eyes; and when Mr. Longfellow included the poem in his volume called The Estray, the youth's cup was full. In Brookline, the young man had plenty of leisure for his favorite pursuits, for he wrote:— I have taken up rea
Alfred Tennyson (search for this): chapter 4
eyes; and when Mr. Longfellow included the poem in his volume called The Estray, the youth's cup was full. In Brookline, the young man had plenty of leisure for his favorite pursuits, for he wrote:— I have taken up reading very strong,—am much interested in Carlyle's Miscellanies and have quite a fancy for German—have begun to dabble a little in the study of it—next winter I shall go into languages wholesale. And in one evening he perpetrated four sonnets to Longfellow, Motherwell, Tennyson, and Sterling,— good—the best things perhaps I've written. From Ellery Channing he gleaned some items about the profits of literature:— Ellery has just been telling me about Hawthorne whom he thinks the only man in the country who supports himself by writing. He is enabled to do this as his expenses are very small. Ellery says he [Hawthorne] might live for $300, as he does at Concord —there his farm gives apples enough to pay his rent, $75. He sells these and fishes in th
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