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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 36 0 Browse Search
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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 20 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 4: College Life.—September, 1826, to September, 1830.—age, 15-19. (search)
ll of matter. His citations and extracts show that he left nothing unread which could illustrate the subject, and that his reading in English literature was beyond that of most undergraduates. On the whole, the dissertation, while creditable to his industry and thoughtfulness, does not foreshadow a distinguished career as a writer. Although doing justice to the Puritans in many respects, he dwells with some impatience on their narrowness and religious eccentricities. Curiously enough, Macaulay's article on Milton, published in 1825, is referred to in the dissertation, without its author being known, as the apotheosis of the Puritans in the pages of one of the British journals. Later in life, when dealing with the great issues of right and duty, he looked with a kindlier eye on even the rugged and imperfect features of their character. Among the many tributes which grateful patriotism has paid to their memory in recent years, none is warmer and more sympathetic than his Finger-Po
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 13: England.—June, 1838, to March, 1839.—Age, 27-28. (search)
Montagu, and Charles Vaughan, among genial friends who wrote or loved good books; of Brougham, Durham, Inglis, Cornewall Lewis, Campbell, Labouchere, Hume, and Roebuck, among statesmen and parliamentary chiefs; At Joseph Parkes's he met Richard Cobden, who was not as yet a member of Parliament. of Fitzwilliam, Lansdowne, Wharncliffe (and his son, John Stuart Wortley), Leicester, Holland, Carlisle (and his son, Lord Morpeth), among noblemen. He met on a familiar footing Charles Austin, Macaulay, Landor, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Campbell, and Theodore Hook. He talked with Wordsworth at his home, and looked with him on the landscapes which had inspired his verse. Among women to whose society he was admitted were the Duchess of Sutherland, Mrs. Montagu, Joanna Baillie, Mrs. Jameson, Mrs. Sarah Austin, Miss Martineau, Mrs. Shelley, Mrs. Marcet, Mrs. Grote, Lady Morgan, Mrs. Norton, and Lady Blessington. With some of these persons the acquaintance was only temporary; with others there fol
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
atesman; supported the abolition of slavery, and Catholic Emancipation. He was the friend of men of letters,—notably of Macaulay. Henry Wheaton, the publicist, introduced Sumner by letter to Lord Lansdowne. Sumner received attentions at Lansdowne rdinary key. I did not know the name of the gentleman for some time; till, by and by, I heard him addressed by some one,—Macaulay. I at once asked Lord Shelburne, who sat on my right, if that was T. B. M., just returned from India; and was told that it was. 1800-1859. Macaulay arrived from India in June, 1838, and was returned to Parliament from Edinburgh the same year, and served till 1847, when he lost a re-election. He was returned again in 1852, and served till his resignation in 1856. ar always address each other without that prefix. It is always Talfourd, Wilde, Follett; and at table, Landor, Forster, Macaulay, Senior, &c. I did not hear the word Mr. at Lord Lansdowne's table, except when he addressed me,—a stranger. My time is<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
ench in association with Thomas Flower Ellis (Macaulay's friend). In 1820, he maintained in a pamphldistinctly in the account of his treatment of Macaulay. Trevelyan's Life of Lord Macaulay. Certainlsk how will it do to publish a collection of Macaulay's writings? The American edition of MacaulMacaulay's essays first led him to consider the expediency of an English edition. See his letter to Napieiously. When I get back to town I will sound Macaulay upon it, if I am so fortunate as to find him ove. Who could be a better judge of one like Macaulay than Lord Jeffrey?—Jeffrey, a critic of thougarliament. He told me that no man spoke like Macaulay in the Commons; and that the great proof of tof 1688 to the passage of the Reform Bill; Macaulay, in his letter to Napier of July 20, 1838, fi. Lord Jeffrey and Sydney Smith both spoke of Macaulay as a talker who said too much,—so much that Jey Smith said, when I told him that I had met Macaulay, Well, you had talk enough for once in your l[2 more...]<