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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 23 3 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 18: marriage, 1845. (search)
is a gift. After our visit was finished we went to the St. Charles, then the first hotel in New Orleans. A great many fashionable people were there, but one of those I remember most there, but one of those I remember most clearly now was Mr. Wilde the poet, whose sonnet, My life is like a summer rose, had made quite a local success. He was the uncle, I think, of the poet and aesthete Oscar Wilde. A soiree was given the evening we reached the hotel, and first among the guests his figOscar Wilde. A soiree was given the evening we reached the hotel, and first among the guests his figure impressed me. He was then about thirty-four or five, slender, and very refined in manner, with flashing black eyes, and a singular pallor of complexion. He was the first poet I had ever encountered, for my journeys had been of the character so happily described since as Autour de ma Chambre. While I was listening attentively to his sprightly talk, and expecting his flow of conversation to become rhythmical, my husband came up, bringing General Gaines, who, at the request of some lady frie
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)
eeing rather than of doing. The characters are more like patients than agents; their business seems to be to register impressions; to receive illumination rather than to make up their minds and set about deeds. But this is a way of conceiving our human business by no means confined to these novels; is it not more or less characteristic of the whole period in which James wrote? One passes by insensible degrees from the world of Renan to that of Pater and Swinburne, and thence to that of Oscar Wilde and of writers yet living, in whom the cult of impressions has been carried to lengths yet more extreme. Among all these names the most significant here seems to be that of Walter Pater, whose style and tone of writing— corresponding to his intellectual quality and bias—more nearly anticipate the style of James than do those of any other writer, English or French. It does not matter that Pater's subject is the art of the past and James's the life of the present. No two writers were e
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)
, Asa, 146 Whitney, Eli, 453 Whitney, Josiah, 467, 470, 475 Whitney, Thomas R., 345 Whitney, William Dwight, 461, 462, 464. 467-70, 475, 477 Whittaker, Frederick, 160 Whittaker, Thomas, 264 n. Whittier, 38, 47, 72, 113, 305, 306, 500, 549 Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo, Git along little Dogies, 515 Who wrote the Bible? 217 Why marry? 294 Whymper, Edward, 11 Widowers' houses, 286 Wiener, Leo, 602 Wife, the, 276 Wife of Usher's well, the, 507 Wigglesworth, Michael, 391 Wilde, Oscar, 107 Wilde, Percival, 297 Wilding flower, 63 Wilkes, Capt., Charles, 135, 136, 140 Wilkes, George, 146 Wilkins-Freeman, Mary E., 274, 291, 309 Wilkinson, W. C., 212 Willard, Emma H., 411, 415 William II (of Germany), 11 William and Mary, 338, 386, 392, 402, 417, 447, 478 William James, 249 n. William Reilly, 511 Williams, Jesse Lynch, 294 Williams, Miss, 541 Williams, S. Wells, 145 Williams College, 413, 435, 467 Williamson, Hugh, 179 Willie and Mar
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 3: Newport 1879-1882; aet. 60-63 (search)
he was thinking of me particularly ... January 29, 1882. Frank [Marion Crawford] had met Oscar Wilde the evening before at Dr. Chadwick's; said that he expressed a desire to make my acquaintancef her new house. 241, she answered. You can remember it because I'm the two-forty one. Oscar Wilde was at this time making a lecture tour through the United States. This was the heyday of hidience, recognized near the head of the procession her favorite grand-nephew, Winthrop Chanler. Wilde took this interruption in good part, welcoming the lads and turning the laugh against them. Imiincerest flattery, he said, though this is a case where I might say, Save me from my friends. Wilde came several times to the house in Boston; later Uncle Sam brought him to spend a day or two at her to put up the gentleman's gentleman. In spite of all the affectation of the aesthetic pose, Wilde proved a rarely entertaining guest. He talked amazingly well; in that company all that was best
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 7: a summer abroad 1892-1893; aet. 73-74 (search)
ek Minister at eight o'clock, and to the soirge of the Academy. To Chelsea, to call upon Mrs. Oscar Wilde.... He showed me with pride a fine boy of five years. We had some talk of old times, of hilde had complained that the usual pronunciation of these words was prosaic.] June 30.... Mrs. Oscar Wilde asks us to take tea on Thursday; she has invited Walter Pater.... Have writ to James Bryce. July 2. To see Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windermere's Fan, at St. James's Theatre. We went by invitation to his box, where were Lady Wilde and Mrs. Oscar. The play was perfectly acted, and is exLady Wilde and Mrs. Oscar. The play was perfectly acted, and is excellent of its kind, the motif not new, but the denouement original in treatment. After the play to call on Lady Rothschild, then to Constance Flower, Lady Battersea. who showed us her superb houss, which I bought for threepence. July 7. Afternoon tea with Mrs. Oscar, meeting an aunt of Mrs. Wilde's, and Mrs. Burne-Jones. The aunt had been in Japan — she had known Fenollosa and Professor M
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Index (search)
Whitney, M. W., II, 265. Whittier, J. G., I, 138, 152, 153, 210, 344; II, 177, 187, 355, 367, 368. Letter of, I, 138. Wild, Hamilton, I, 201; II, 99. Wilde, Lady, II, 168. Wilde, Oscar, II, 70-72, 168. Wilde, Mrs., Oscar, II, 167-69. Wilderness, Battle of the, II, 253. William I, I, 4. William I (Prussia),Wilde, Oscar, II, 70-72, 168. Wilde, Mrs., Oscar, II, 167-69. Wilderness, Battle of the, II, 253. William I, I, 4. William I (Prussia), I, 93, 94; II, 20. William II., II, 20. Williams, Dr., II, 205. Williams, Mrs., Harry, II, 93. Williams, Roger, I, 4. Williams Hall, I, 185. Willis, N. P., I, 262. Wilman, Helen, II, 325. Wilson, Mrs. B. M., II, 266. Winchendon, II, 314. Winchester, I, 188. Windermere, I, 92. Winslow, Erving, IWilde, Mrs., Oscar, II, 167-69. Wilderness, Battle of the, II, 253. William I, I, 4. William I (Prussia), I, 93, 94; II, 20. William II., II, 20. Williams, Dr., II, 205. Williams, Mrs., Harry, II, 93. Williams, Roger, I, 4. Williams Hall, I, 185. Willis, N. P., I, 262. Wilman, Helen, II, 325. Wilson, Mrs. B. M., II, 266. Winchendon, II, 314. Winchester, I, 188. Windermere, I, 92. Winslow, Erving, I, 346. Winslow, Helen M., II, 270. Wintergreen Club, II, 361. Winthrop, Lindall, II, 251. Winthrop, R. C., I, 170; II, 93, 306. Winthrop House, I, 123, 124. Wister, Owen, II, 304, 354. Wolcott, Roger, II, 233. Woman Ministry, I, 386; II, 77 Woman's Church, I, 390. Woman's Journal, I, 353, 359; II, 9,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, X (search)
is Holy State that learning hath gained most by those books on which the printers have lost; and if this is true of learning, it is far truer of that incalculable and often perplexing gift called genius. Young Americans write back from London that they wish they had gone there in the palmy days of literary society—in the days when Dickens and Thackeray were yet alive, and when Tennyson and Browning were in their prime, instead of waiting until the present period, when Rider Haggard and Oscar Wilde are regarded, they say, as serious and important authors. But just so men looked back in longing from that earlier day to the period of Scott and Wordsworth, and so farther and farther and farther. It is easy for older men to recall when Thackeray and Dickens were in some measure obscured by now forgotten contemporaries, like Harrison Ainsworth and G. P. R. James, and when one was gravely asked whether he preferred Tennyson to Sterling or Trench or Alford or Faber or Milnes. It is to
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, Index (search)
, see Clemens. Tyndall, John, 22. U, V. Urquhart, David, 208, 209. Vestris, M., 83. Virgil, 99, 171, 217. Voltaire, F. M. A. de, 52, 53, 83, 187, 189 Von Holst, H. E., 32. W. Wagner, Richard, 16. Wallace, H. B., 51. Wallace, Lew, 67. Walpole, Horace, 135, 210. Walton, Izaak, 202. Walworth, M. T., 198, 200. Ward, Artemus, 59. Warner, C. D., 2. 72. Washington, George, 112, 155. Wasson, D. A., v., 103. Weapons of precision, 192. Webb, R. D., 29. Webster, Daniel, 155, 224. Weiss, John, 104. Weller, Sam, 182. Westminster Abbey of a book catalogue, 152. White, J. Blanco, 98. Whitman, Walt, 58, 67, 100. Whittier, J. G., 25, 60, 62, 66. Wieland, C. M., 90. Wilde, Oscar, 93. William the Silent, 6. Willis, N. P., 27, 28, 29, 93. Wilkins, Mary E., 11. Winsor, Justin, 172. Wolfe, General, 103. Wolseley, Lord, 123. Wordsworth, William, 94, 217. World-literature, a, 228. Z. Zelter, C. F., 97. Zincke, Canon, 39. Zola, Emile, 56, 229.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 24: Longfellow as a man (search)
The wonder of Mr. Longfellow's later years was not so much that he kept up his incessant literary activity as that he did it in the midst of the constant interruptions involved in great personal popularity and fame. He had received beneath his roof every notable person who had visited Boston for half a century; he had met them all with the same affability, and had consented, with equal graciousness, to be instructed by Emerson and Sumner, or to be kindly patronized—as the story goes—by Oscar Wilde. From that room had gone forth innumerable kind acts and good deeds, and never a word of harshness. He retained to the last his sympathy with young people, and with all liberal and progressive measures. Indeed, almost his latest act of public duty was to sign a petition to the Massachusetts legislature for the relief of the disabilities still placed in that State upon the testimony of atheists. Mr. Longfellow's general health remained tolerably good, in spite of advancing years, un
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
f., Barrett, 142; his Literary History of America, cited, 142 note. Wesselhoeft, Dr., Robert, 161. West Point, N. Y., 18. Westminster Abbey, service of commemoration for Longfellow at, 248-257. Weston, Miss Anne W., 167. Weston Mss., cited, 167 note. White Mountains, 51, 132. Whitman, Walt, 6, 10, 276. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1, 6, 68, 134, 168, 258, 265, 267, 285, 294; thanks Longfellow for his antislavery poems, 167; his literary position, 259; relations with Longfellow, 271. Wijk, Mr., 101-103. Wijk, Mrs., 102, 103. Wilcox, Carlos, 145. Wilde, Oscar, 292. Wilkins, Mary, 198. Willis, Nathaniel P., 8, 19, 89, 90, 247. Windsor Castle, 221. Winter, William, on Longfellow's unpublished poems, 276. Winthrop, R. C., 222. Wiseman, Cardinal, on Longfellow, 281. Worcester, Joseph E., 121. Worcester, Noah, 63, 64. Worcester, Mass., 118 note. Wordsworth, William, 7-10, 80, 266. York Cathedral, 224. Yorkshire County, Eng., 11. Zedlitz, Joseph C., 161.