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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 5: first visit to Europe (search)
a village at a short distance, I joined myself to the band. I wanted to get into one of the cottages, if possible, in order to study character. I had a flute in my knapsack, and I thought it would be very pretty to touch up at a cottage door, Goldsmith—like,—though I would not have done it for the world without an invitation. Well, before long, I determined to get an invitation, if possible. So I addressed the girl who was walking beside me, told her I had a flute in my sack, and asked her w what a flute was! What havoc that made among my romantic ideas! My quietus was made; I said no more about a flute, the whole journey through; and I thought nothing but starvation would drive me to strike up at the entrance of a village, as Goldsmith did. Life, i.90, 91. Thus, wherever he goes, his natural good spirits prevail over everything. Washington Irving, in his diary, speaks of Longfellow at Madrid as having arrived safely and cheerily, having met with no robbers. Mrs. Alexand
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 6: marriage and life at Brunswick (search)
re me, dingy and time-worn, with her name in varying handwriting from the early Mary S. Potter to the later Mary S. P. Longfellow. They show many marked passages and here and there a quotation. The collection begins with Miss Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy; then follow somewhat abruptly Sabbath Recreations, by Miss Emily Taylor, and The Wreath, a selection of elegant poems from the best authors, —these poems including the classics of that day, Beattie's Minstrel, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and some lighter measures from Campbell, Moore, and Burns. The sombre muse undoubtedly predominated, but on the whole the book was not so bad an elementary preparation for the training of a poet's wife. It is a touching accidental coincidence that one of the poems most emphatically marked is one of the few American poems in these volumes, Bryant's Death of the Flowers, especially the last verse, which describes a woman who died in her youthful beauty. To these are added boo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
rness Abbey, 219. Garrison, William L., 285; his Liberator, mentioned, 163,166; his Memoirs, cited, 167 note. Gazette, United States Literary, the, 23-26, 29 note, 41; Longfellow contributes to, 27. Georgia (State), 143. Germany, 8, 50-52, 65, 71, 98, 125, 142, 156, 170, 199. Gervinus, George G., 112. Gladstone, William E., 221. Gloucester, Mass., 264. Goddard, William, 97. Goethe, John Wolfgang von, 64, 92, 112, 234, 289; his Werther, mentioned, 120; quoted, 233. Goldsmith, Oliver, 50, 62. Goodrich, Samuel G., 72; his Recollections of a Lifetime, mentioned, 74. Gorges, Thomas, 131. Gongora, Luis de, 68. Gothenburg, 97, 101-103. Gottingen, 52. Gower, Sir, Ronald, his My Reminiscences quoted, 279-281. Graham, Mr., 158. Graham's Magazine, 164, 193. Grant, General Ulysses S., 6. Granville, Earl, 254; offers Longfellow bust to the Dean, 250, 251. Gray, J. C., 86. Gray, Thomas, 62, 252. Great Britain, 8. Greece, 31, 33. Green, Priscilla
The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway. (search)
A poor woman, named Clarke, some years ago claimed to be the last descendant from John Milton. The male line of Sir Criatopber Wren was speedily extinguished, and was sometime since stated the belief that the female line had also ceased; a correspondent, however, mentioned that, at the time be wrote, (a few years ago) and old lady descending from the great architect was still living. Sir. Joshua Reynolds, Cowper, the poet, Pope, Locke, Seldon, Thom as Campbell, Thomas Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, Wilkie, Dan, Swift, Sir Isaac New on, Hogarth, Turner the landscape painter, Sir Humphrey Davy, Edmund Burke, Patt — left no descendants Robert Stephenson ended the line of his father George. Notwithstanding the anxiety of Sir Walter Scott to establish a family inheritance, his direct race have perished, and those of but slight relationship inherit his land and title. We believe that with the sons of Robert Burne, the family of the national poet of Scotland will expire.
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