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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, English men of letters. (search)
d by John Morley. Three biographies in each volume Cloth. 12mo. Price, $1.00, each Chaucer. By Adolphus William Ward. Spenser. By R. W. Church. Dryden. By George Saintsbury. Milton. By Mark Pattison, B. D. Goldsmith. By William Black. Cowper. By Goldwin Smith. Byron. By John Nichol. Shelley. By John Addington Symonds. Keats. By Sidney Colvin, M. A. Wordsworth. By F. W. H. Myers. Southey. By Edward Dowden. Landor. By Sidney Colvin, M. A. Lamb. By Alfred Ainger. Addison. By W. J. Courthope. Swift. By Leslie Stephen. Scott. By Richard H. Hutton. Burns. By Principal Shairp. Coleridge. By H. D. Traill. Hume. By T. H. Huxley, F. R.S. Locke. By Thomas Fowler. Burke. By John Morley. Fielding. By Austin Dobson. Thackeray. By Anthony Trollope. Dickens. By Adolphus William Ward. Gibbon. By J. Cotter Morison. Carlylze. By John Nichol. Macaulay. By J. Cotter Morison. Sidney. By J. A. Symonds. De Quincey. By David Masson. Sheridan. By Mrs. O
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)
shers issued them in large numbers, sometimes in chap-books as low as five cents. Moreover, during the three decades before Scott's novels appeared, there were frequent republications or importations of, especially, Bunyan, Milton, Defoe, Pope, Addison, Thomson, Young, Darwin, Lewis, Johnson, and Goldsmith. The publishers of Trumbull, Barlow, See Book I, Chap. IX. Dwight, See Book I, Chap. IX., and Book II, Chap. XXII. and Brown, while receiving apparently fair returns from these us, however, is bred that subtle atmosphere of linguistic authenticity, the inevitableness of the thing rightly said, which is the peasant's by inheritance and to which the man of letters attains by giving his toilsome nights to much else beside Addison. The great mass of men lies between, the many who write and are not great writers, the many who talk not so well as they might; where in irritation and bewilderment may they look? All this is very different in English English. Here, quite p
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)
ia from the Baltic to the Danube, 164 Acta Sanctorum, 174 Acton, Lord, 195 Adams, Andy, 161 Adams, Charles Follen, 26 Adams, Charles Francis, 197, 363, 459 n. Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 197, 198 Adams, Charles K., 177 Adams, Franklin P., 22 Adams, H. B., 174, 177, 178 Adams, Henry, 86, 194, 197, 198-200, 302, 490 Adams, Henry C., 442 Adams, John, 396, 453 Adams, John Quincy, 197, 346, 453, 471, 472 Adams, Maude, 279 Adams, Nehemiah, 345 Adam's diary, 20 Addison, 542, 566 Address on Alaska at Sitka, August 12, 1869, 166 Address to the inhabitants of North Carolina, an, 426 Address to the public, . . . Proposing a plan for improving Female education, 411 Address to the workingmen of New England, an, 436 Ade, George, 26, 91, 288, 289, 290 Adler (Jewish actor), 608 Adler, Karl, 583 Admirable Crichton, the, 286 Adolescence, 422 Adrea, 281, 282 Adventures of Francois, the, 90, 91 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the, 16
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Literature as an art. (search)
And this applies not only to words of beauty, but to words of wit. All wit, said Mr. Pitt, is true reasoning ; and Rogers, who preserved this saying, added, that he himself had lived long before making the discovery that wit was truth. A final condition of literary art is thoroughness, which must be shown both in the preparation and in the revision of one's work. The most brilliant mind needs a large accumulated capital of facts and images, before it can safely enter on its business. Addison, before beginning the Spectator, had accumulated three folio volumes of notes. The greater part of an author's time, said Dr. Johnson, is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. Unhappily, with these riches comes the chance of being crushed by them, of which the agreeable Roman Catholic writer, Digby, is a striking recent example. There is no satisfaction in being told, as Charles Lamb told Godwin, that you have read more books that are n
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A letter to a young contributor. (search)
uise, and that this American literature of ours will be just as classic a thing, if we do our part, as any which the past has treasured. There is a mirage over all literary associations. Keats and Lamb seem to our young people to be existences as remote and legendary as Homer, yet it is not an old man's life since Keats was an awkward boy at the door of Hazlitt's lecture-room, and Lamb was introducing Talfourd to Wordsworth as his own only admirer. In reading Spence's Anecdotes, Pope and Addison appear no further off; and wherever I open Bacon's Essays, I am sure to end at last with that one magical sentence, annihilating centuries, When I was a child, and Queen Elizabeth was in the flower of her years. And this imperceptible transformation of the commonplace present into the storied past applies equally to the pursuits of war and to the serenest works of peace. Be not misled by the excitements of the moment Written early in 1862. into overrating the charms of military life
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
mental eye; but will not twenty million copies of him do, for the present? The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall. Washington Irving, who seemed at first to so acute a French observer as Chasles a mere reproduction of Pope and Addison, wrote to John Lothrop Motley two years before his own death, You are properly sensible of the high calling of the American press,--that rising tribunal before which the whole world is to be summoned, its history to be revised and rewritten, and the judgment of past ages to be canceled or confirmed. For one who can look back sixty years to a time when the best literary periodical in America was called The Albion, it is difficult to realize how the intellectual relations of the two nations
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
nt, Holland House, two miles from London. Parliament was in full session and activity, and the chief members of the Opposition, especially Lord Grey and Earl Spencer, were much there. . . .There was more of fashion and politics than when I went there before, and I had two very interesting dinners with them, one when only Brougham and Sismondi were present. . . . . The very house has a classical value. . . . . Lord Holland told me, that in the gallery, which he has converted into a library, Addison, according to tradition, used to compose his papers, walking up and down its whole length, with a bottle of wine at each end, under whose influence he wrote, as Horace Walpole says. . . . Lord Grey is a consummate gentleman, and, besides being the leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, is a good scholar. With all this, he is the affectionate father of thirteen children There are few men I have known that are more loved than he is; but in his general character, as he appears in mix
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 11 (search)
nel, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for faithful and meritorious services in his department, to date from Dec. 2, 1865. G. O. 65, June 22, 1867. Barrett, Captain Addison, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, to be Major, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from Sept. 14, 1865. Gt and meritorious services during the war and in action at Fort Stedman, Va., Mar. 24, 1865, to date from Mar. 2, 1867. G. . 33, Apr. 9, 1869. Ware, Captain Addison, Jr., Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, to be Major, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from Mar. 13, 1865. G. O. 133, Aug. 22, 1865. G. O. 65, June 22, 1867. — Major Addison, Jr., Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, to be Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from Mar. 13, 1865. G. O. 65, June 22, 1867. Warren, Brig. General Fitz-Henry, U.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Old South. (search)
il war, and demonstrated that weak maritime nations could be protected against the most powerful. The Le Contes, of Georgia, are to-day among our foremost men of science. Dr. J. Marion Sims, of South Carolina, had more reputation abroad than any other American physician. In literature, we have had such men as Marshall, Kennedy, Gayarre, Wirt, Gilmore, Simms, Hawks, Legare, Hayne, Ryan, Timrod, the Elliotts, of South Carolina, Tichnor, Lanier, Thornwell, Archibald Alexander and his sons, Addison and James W., Bledsoe, Mrs. Welby, Mrs. Terhune, &c. Brooke, of Virginia, solved the problem of deep sea sounding, which had so long baffled men of science. But the other day, General John Newton, of Virginia, was at the head of the Engineering Department of the United States. Stephen V. Benet, of Florida, is now head of the United States Ordnance Department, and Dr. Robert Murray, of Maryland, is Surgeon-General. Most of the Southern inventions were lost to those whose genius devised t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
lose of the seventeenth century, the most enlightening influences followed. The eighteenth century began with an era of expanding intelligence, increasing refinement and luxurious expenditure. The sons, returning from the schools, colleges and inns of the law courts of the mother country, invested with the advantages thus acquired and with perceptions quickened by social contact, golden in its intellectual aspirations, were naturally directive in lofty and broad impulse. The influence of Addison, Steele, Pope, Swift, Congreve, Burke and others was nobly fruitful. In America the excellent offices of the University of Pennsylvania, of Princeton, Harvard, and Yale were availed of. Our women, ever the sweetest and noblest of their sex, it is realized, were effective factors in the formation of Virginian character. It is notable that George Wythe was taught Latin and Greek by his mother, and the brilliant John Randolph of Roanoke acknowledged his indebtedness to the same tender rega
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