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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 8 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 2: school days and early ventures (search)
and sympathised with me. He sent also another poem, entitled The Deity, an amplification of the eleventh and twelfth verses of the nineteenth chapter of First Kings. This was also written in 1825, and was published in the Free Press of June 22, 1826. See Whittier's Works, IV. 334. Mr. Garrison introduced it as follows:-- The author of the following graphic sketch, which would do credit to riper years, is a youth of only sixteen years, who we think bids fair to prove another Bernard Barton, of whose persuasion he is. His poetry bears the stamp of true poetic genius, which, if carefully cultivated, will rank him among the bards of his country. Other poems — or versified contributions — bore such a wide range of titles as The Vale of the Merrimack, The death of Alexander, The voice of time, The Burial of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, To the Memory of William Penn, The Shipwreck, Paulowna Memory, and the like; but it is impossible now to find in these the traces of gen
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 13: closing years (search)
en we know by Scott's own confession that his description of Melrose Abbey by moonlight, --one of the most widely quoted descriptions ever written,--was not written in presence of that beautiful spectacle, but quite the contrary? He wrote to Bernard Barton:-- I was surprised into confessing what I might have as well kept to myself, that I had been guilty of sending persons a bat-hunting to see the ruins of Melrose by moonlight, which I never saw myself. The fact is rather curious, for as ccasion. However, it so happens that I never did, and must (unless I get cold on purpose) be contented with supposing that these ruins look very like other Gothic buildings which I have seen by the wan light of the moon. Letters and poems of Bernard Barton, by his daughter, p. 147. This was carried so far by Whittier that during all his visits to the White Mountains, he never could be tempted to go to Quebec, but said, I know all about it, by books and pictures, as if I had seen it. Yet ho
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
, 20, 140. Asquam House, 169. Athenaeum Gallery, 135. Atlantic Club, 89, 104. Atlantic Monthly, cited, 50; mentioned, 143, 176, 177; quoted, 153, 154. Aubignd, da, J. H. M., 166. Augustine, Saint, 116. Austin, Ann, 84. B. Bachiler, Rev., Stephen, 5, 6. Bacon, Francis, 38, 179; quoted, 150. Baltimore, Md., 48, 79. Bancroft, George, 100, 181. Banks, Gen. N. P., 47. Barbadoes, 85. Barclay of Ury, 56. Barefoot boy, the, quoted, 14-16. Barnard, F. A. P., 35. Barton, Bernard, 25; the Letters and poems of, quoted, 174. Batchelder, Charles E., 6 n. Batchelder family, 19, 156. Bates, Charlotte Fiske (Madame Roger), Whittier's letter to, 128-130. Beacon Street, Boston, 3. Bearcamp River, 143. Bell, Mr., 181. Bellingham, Dep. Gov., treatment of Quakers, 84. Benezet, Anthony, 49, 51. Bennington, Vt., 25, 73. Blaine, James G., 181. Border Ruffians, 78. Boston, Mass., 1, 3, 19, 25, 26, 32, 34, 46, 50, 51, 57, 60, 62, 74-78, 81, 85, 88, 91,