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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, chapter 29 (search)
ached to the friends who gave the invitation, he accepted. In those days, when mammas considered the Pickwick papers too coarse for their daughters' perusal; when Don Juan was forbidden on pain of excommunication from the guild of delicate-minded women; when Devereux and The Disowned were placed behind the other books on the shelves of the library, as unfit for the eyes of ladies; when George Sand and Paul de Kock were named with bated breath, and the young people knew them not; when Miss Austen's correct ladies and gentlemen walked serenely across the literary stage and looked their approval of their equally prudent audience; when Lady Delacour's duel with Harriet Freke was considered an incident to be deprecated while reading Miss Edgeworth's novels, and Lady Audley's secret was held in reserve and not to be confided lightly to the young; when we still argued hotly over the relative merits of Di. Vernon and Belinda; when some old-fashioned girls wept over Thaddeus of Warsaw, an
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 13 (search)
s their functions are much alike. Of course neither of them can expect to win the vast prizes of wealth or power which commerce sometimes gives; and one's best preparation is to have looked poverty and obscurity in the face in youth, to have taken its measure and accepted it as a possible alternative,--a thing insignificant to a man who has, or even thinks he has, a higher aim. No single sentence, except a few of Emerson's, ever moved me so much in youth as did a passage translated in Mrs. Austen's German prose writers from Heinzelmann, an author of whom I never read another word: Be and continue poor, young man, while others around you grow rich by fraud and disloyalty; be without place or power, while others beg their way upward; bear the pain of disappointed hopes, while others gain the accomplishment of theirs by flattery; forego the gracious pressure of the hand, for which others cringe and crawl; wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend, and your daily bread. If
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3: Journeys (search)
head must go down to the lungs, at least; one youth of eighteen next door was born with a squeak. Yet by one stroke he has outwitted Fate, and by dint of a piano fortissimo and twelve hours daily and nightly practice he has attained skill to drown any of his relations, voice and all, and is now performing The maiden's prayer in tones to silence the Mighty Deep. . . .Looking about for some literature suited for a lonely and athletic student temporarily on half rations, I have selected Miss Austen, the only author except Dr. Bartol whose complete works the house possesses, and one whose perfect execution cheers, while her mild excitements do not inebriate the mind of man. ... There is a Mrs. D- of Cambridge, with a gentle dyspeptic daughter, whom (the mother) I should define as a Cambridge wailer--a perpetual tone of motherly despair, with the personal grandeur peculiar to that classic town, when represented by its citizens abroad. She was nee W--, and there is a suppressed-Qui
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, On an old Latin text-book. (search)
ld text-book would have been an oasis. Yet it may plausibly be said that what charms the child, after all, is the grace of the phrase, and that even if a collection of good English sentences would not answer as well (because he is not forced to dwell on them for the purpose of translation), yet some German or French phrase-book, provided it were not Ollendorff, might serve the purpose. I should be the last person to deny the magic that may also dwell, for young people, in a book like Miss Austen's Selections from German prose writers, which at a later period I almost learned by heart. But however we may define the words classic and romantic, it will be found, I think, however contrary to the impression of many, that the child is naturally a classicist first. Emerson said well, Every healthy boy is a Greek ; while his powers are dawning and he divides his life between games and books, he prefers phrases that, while they touch his imagination, have yet a certain definite quality.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Howells. (search)
tening to conversation, a musical voice gratifies us almost more than wit or wisdom. Mr. Howells is without an equal in America — and therefore without an equal among his English-speaking contemporaries — as to some of the most attractive literary graces. He has no rival in halftints, in modulations, in subtile phrases that touch the edge of an assertion and yet stop short of it. He is like a skater who executes a hundred graceful curves within the limits of a pool a few yards square. Miss Austen, the novelist, once described her art as a little bit of ivory, on which she produced small effect after much labor. She underrated her own skill, as the comparison in some respects underrates that of Howells; but his field is — or has until lately seemed to be — the little bit of ivory. This is attributing to him only what he has been careful to claim for himself. He tells his methods very frankly, and his first literary principle has been to look away from great passions, and rath
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Deaths of Confederate prisoners. (search)
st Md; John D Spear, 66th Tenn; A P Smith, 45th N C, H M Smith, 52d N C; W Stallen, 31st Miss; Jj Stanford, 56th Tenn; J O Sullivan, 26th N C; J W Taylor, 15th Ark; G W Vaugu, Philips's Ga leg; D Vaughn and Wm Walker, 3d Tenn; M J Webster, 61st N C; P S Wilite, 8th Ala; A Williams, 26th N C; J B Williams, 2d. N C; Wm S Mills, 1st Mo cav; S A Wilson, Rockbridge art; S Wilton, 2d Ark; J A Wright, 40th Va; W A Year-gin, 48th Ala; G P Yearket, 36th Va; J Young, 23d N C; J E White, 28th N C; J L Austen, 37th N C; F Avery, 4th N C; Y Hambars, 52d N C; T E Boney, 4th N C cav; W T Beall, Blair light ar'y; a Ball, 60th Tenn; L G Budd, 55th N C; L Bishop, 52d N C; A T Bright, 22d Ga; W Brown 31st Geo; D Bowman, 52d N C; W H Crickman, 1st do; W B Crocker, 47th do; Aza Carawell, 54th do; G W Cobb, 12th S C; S A Carter, 3d Ark cav; John Done, 47th N C; D Dukes, 61st Va; A Earpe, 55th N C; W Eizell, 5th do, Evans, 55th do; M Filun, 1st S C rifles; JeM Ferrell, 12th N C; Jas File, citizen, Miss; S
The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], 200 dollars reward. (search)
200 dollars reward. --Ranaway from the subscriber, on the 19th inst, my boy Austen. The said boy is about 16 years old, about five feet high, and of a light brown complexion. He took with him my dark bay horse, small in nine, but compact and in good order. Austen has a high forehead but narrow, and his hair extends very low on either side. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to Messrs Lee & Bowman, in Richmond, or secured in any jail, and the recovery of the horse. D Scotthe subscriber, on the 19th inst, my boy Austen. The said boy is about 16 years old, about five feet high, and of a light brown complexion. He took with him my dark bay horse, small in nine, but compact and in good order. Austen has a high forehead but narrow, and his hair extends very low on either side. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to Messrs Lee & Bowman, in Richmond, or secured in any jail, and the recovery of the horse. D Scott, Restiand P O, Essex co, Va. ja 25--ts
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], 200 dollars reward. (search)
200 dollars reward. --Ranaway from the subscriber, on the 19th inst, my boy Austen. The said boy is about 56 years old, about five feet high, and of a light brown complexion. He took with him my dark bay horse, small in size, but compact and in good order. Austen has a high forehead but narrow, and his hair extends very low on either side. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to Messrs Lee & Bowman, in Richmond, or secured in any jail, and the recovery of the horse. D Scotthe subscriber, on the 19th inst, my boy Austen. The said boy is about 56 years old, about five feet high, and of a light brown complexion. He took with him my dark bay horse, small in size, but compact and in good order. Austen has a high forehead but narrow, and his hair extends very low on either side. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to Messrs Lee & Bowman, in Richmond, or secured in any jail, and the recovery of the horse. D Scott, Bestland P O, Essex co, Va. ja 26--ts
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
200 dollars reward. --Ranaway from the subscriber, on the 19th inst, my boy Austen. The said boy is about 16 years old, about five feet high, and of a light brown complexion. He took with him my dark bay horse, small in size, but compact and in good order. Austen has a high forehead but narrow, and his hair extends very low on either side. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to Messrs. Lee & Bowman, in Richmond, or secured in any jail, and the recovery of the horse. D Scot subscriber, on the 19th inst, my boy Austen. The said boy is about 16 years old, about five feet high, and of a light brown complexion. He took with him my dark bay horse, small in size, but compact and in good order. Austen has a high forehead but narrow, and his hair extends very low on either side. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to Messrs. Lee & Bowman, in Richmond, or secured in any jail, and the recovery of the horse. D Scott, Bestland P O. Essex Co., Va. ja 26--ts
The Daily Dispatch: February 01, 1864., [Electronic resource], Lower Brandon. (search)
200 dollars reward. --Ranaway from the subscriber, on the 19th inst, my boy Austen. The said boy is about 16 years old, about five feet high, and of a light brown complexion. He took with him my dark bay horse, small in size, but compact and in good order. Austen has a high forehead but narrow, and his hair extends very low on either side. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to Messrs Lee & Bowman, in Richmond, or secured in any jail, and the recovery of the horse. D Scotthe subscriber, on the 19th inst, my boy Austen. The said boy is about 16 years old, about five feet high, and of a light brown complexion. He took with him my dark bay horse, small in size, but compact and in good order. Austen has a high forehead but narrow, and his hair extends very low on either side. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to Messrs Lee & Bowman, in Richmond, or secured in any jail, and the recovery of the horse. D Scott, Bestland P O, Essex co, Va. ja 26--ts
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