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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
ou so, for I prophesied all that has occurred. To you who had so long known by conversation and books the men of England it must be most interesting to see them face to face, to listen to the gentle sallies of Rogers, and the marvellous flow of Macaulay. I hear very little from any of my London friends. Time is rolling its obscuring mists between us. This is natural. I was reminded of you several times when at Plymouth only three days ago, to lecture. I passed the night at Mr. Andrew Russelwittily said, have nothing in common but the initial letter; Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1887), vol IX. p. 718. and a German thinker has written that no one can be blind to his own merit any more than to his height. Schopenhauer. A reviewer of Macaulay, Quarterly Review, July and Oct. 1876, p. 6. who was also accused of an inordinate estimate of himself, has tersely said of vanity that it is a defect rather than a vice; never admitted into the septenary catalogue of the mortal sins of Dante
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
llege; but it did not come from his own Alma Mater (Harvard) till three years later. In Europe, particularly in England, the assault was recognized as an event of grave import. London Times, August 7; London News, September 1; Daily News, September 1; London Morning Star, June 24 (article written by Henry Richard); Sumner's Works, vol. IV. p. 326. George Cornewall Lewis called it the beginning of civil war. Henry Reeve also heard him say that it was the first blow of a civil war. Macaulay wrote to the Duchess of Argyll: In any country but America, I should think civil war must be impending. The Duchess of Argyll to Sumner, Sept. 8, 1863. Many letters of sympathy came to him from foreign friends. Macready wrote with affection, describing the universal sympathy in his country, and the indignation which had been called forth by the outrage inflicted by a cowardly and brutal ruffian. Cobden, testifying to the same opinions felt by all on that side of the Atlantic, expressed
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
ton, and to the Laboucheres at Stoke Park. He met Macaulay several times, as at Lord Belper's, the Duke of Ard at Lord Belper's, where I met for the first time Macaulay, so altered I did not know him. July 12. Sundayere was Lady Trevelyan, a most agreeable sister of Macaulay. July 13. Left Ockham in the afternoon; was driJuly 15. Breakfast at Duke of Argyll's, where were Macaulay, the Milmans, Senior, Reeve, Trench, Maurice, etc. Lady Hatherton, Sir Edmund and Lady Head, Senior, Macaulay, Panizzi; afterwards in town went to a reception afor the nine miles; arrived at dinner; there was Mr. Macaulay also. July 28. Lord Lansdowne arrived at Chevtanhope took us in her carriage (Lord Lansdowne, Mr. Macaulay, and myself) through the grounds of Lord Amherstopes. July 29. Left Chevening this forenoon. Mr. Macaulay took me in his carriage fourteen miles as far asp. 343; vol. II. pp. 64, 65, 373. and met there Mr. Macaulay, also Mr. Ellis; after dinner also Mr. Paull,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
London. There he passed a busy month, filled with invitations to breakfasts and dinners from the Sutherlands, Lansdownes, Westminster, Granvilles, Palmerstons, Argylls, Stanhopes, Cranworths, Wensleydales, Kinnairds; as also from Reeve, Senior, Macaulay, 1808-1871. Of a noble family of Milan; exiled by Austria for her liberal ideas; a traveller and author. Sir Henry Holland, T. Baring, Buxton, Denison, and Mrs. Norton. He met Thackeray and Cruikshank at L. B. Mackinnon's. He met again Bro that time they were correspondents. Lord Palmerston was as gay and jaunty as ever, Lord Clarendon as fascinating, Lord Brougham as fitful, Lord Lyndhurst as eloquent and clever, Lord Lansdowne as kind, and Lord Cranworth as good. I saw much of Macaulay at breakfast and dinner,—at least half a dozen times, and twice in his own house. His conversation was as full and interesting as ever. Nothing seemed too great or too small for his memory. I think that I was more than ever struck by him. Bri
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 43: return to the Senate.—the barbarism of slavery.—Popular welcomes.—Lincoln's election.—1859-1860. (search)
er contributed to the New York Tribune March 3, 1860. Works, vol. IV. pp. 417-423. at this time a paper introducing Macaulay's article, written when a youth, on slavery in the West Indies, which appeared in tile Edinburgh Review in 1825, and hadourse with the historian, who had died a few weeks before. The Duke of Argyll, whose home at Kensington was very near Macaulay's, wrote Sumner an account of the historian's last days; the duchess added a note, recalling how heartily he grasped Sum 2, 1860: Do you remember the breakfast at Holly Lodge? This was the last time we had any of us the pleasure of meeting Macaulay, I believe. I am sure it was the last time that I saw him, and I am not likely to forget it very soon. Do you rememberd the most masterly, learned, profound, and multum in parvo survey of the reign of Charles II., by Buckle. I think it cannot fail to interest you. Here are Evelyn, Pepys, Macaulay, and one hundred others, all in their essence. End of vol. III.
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)
es; then to Chaucer, admired for his sense of earth in human life; and to Dickens, whose magic, Howells saw, was rough. Macaulay taught him to like criticism and furnished him an early model of prose style. Thackeray, Longfellow, Tennyson followed of essayists than with the more personal and leisurely Irving tradition. Indeed, it was Whipple's brilliant article on Macaulay, written in 1843, that made its author known to the literary world of Boston, where Whipple, a young man of twenty-four, was then employed in the brokerage business; and Macaulay's style is reflected in much of the earlier work of his American admirer. In the lectures and essays contained in the volumes entitled Literature and life (1871) and Character and characterils of Hermann. James Hadley (1821-72), before he entered Yale as a junior in 1840, had read as much Greek and Latin as Macaulay had read during his whole school and university life. By 1851 he had become professor of the Greek Language and Literat
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)
3, 115, 117, 119, 302, 305, 306, 307, 313, 415, 416, 459, 472, 482, 482 n., 488, 489, 490, 549, 563, 570 Lowell, Percival, 312 Lucian, 467 Luck of roaring camp, 73, 290 Lurella, 512 Lussan, A., 592, 596 Luther, Martin, 382, 556 Luther, Seth, 436 Lutheran Bible, 574 Lyell, 229 Lyon, Mary, 411 Lyrick works of Horace translated into English verse, 445 Lyrics for a Lute, 52 Lyrics of joy, 52 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 109, 112, 125 McAffie's confession, 514 Macaulay, 77, 126, 462 McCarthy, 365 MacDowell, 49 Mach, Ernst, 251 MacKaye, Percy, 277, 296 MacKaye, Steele, 276, 277, 279 Mackenzie, 54 I Mackintosh, Sir, James, 454 McClellan, G. B., 182, 322 McClure, S. S., 316 McClure, Wm., 399 McClure's, 301, 316, 317, 318 McConnell, Matthew, 429 McCosh, James, 209, 240 McCullagh, 327 McCulloch, Hugh, 351, 433 McFarlane, Robert, 437 McGehee, Micajah, 147 McGilvary, 247 n. McGlashan, C. F., 146 McHugh, Augustin,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 22 (search)
bridge Edition, in one volume. He has edited volumes of selections from Milton, Gray, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, and Browning, with Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. He is also the author of Shakespeare the boy, with sketches of youthful life of that period; The Satchel guide to Europe, published anonymously for twenty-eight years; and a book on the Elementary study of English. With his son, John C. Rolfe, Ph. D., Professor of Latin in the University of Pennsylvania, he has edited Macaulay's Lays of ancient Rome. He has published a series of elementary English classics in six volumes. He has also supervised the publication of the New century edition de luxe of Shakespeare in twenty-four volumes, besides writing for it a Life of Shakespeare which fills a volume of five hundred and fifty pages, now published separately. It is safe to say that no other American, and probably no Englishman, has rivaled him for the extent, variety, and accuracy of his services as an editor.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
ession till I lost it on my removal to my present rooms. The device was a bull in wild career and the motto, When I wave my sword on high, See the Saxon porkers fly. We had been reading Ivanhoe at the time, as illustrative of the reign of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, and James hit upon Front-de-Boeuf as his pattern. His relish for the heroic made him delight in the poetry which recounts the deeds of valor in stirring verse; and he seemed never weary, even when he became a man, of reading Macaulay's Lays, Aytoun's Border Minstrelsy, and Scott's Poems. On the eve of actual battle, James was heard quoting from Henry of Navarre. Being so full of romantic feeling, it was to be expected that he would have a vivid perception of beauty, and so, indeed, he had; it was to him the manifestation of God in the world. He had a fine ear, and his musical taste was apparent when so small that he had to climb upon the music-stool before the piano, and twine his legs around its stem to keep from fa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
and literary tastes which had been so marked in him during his college life, but from which it might have been apprehended that the activities of business and army life would have a tendency to divorce him. When he and his brothers left home for the army, it was remarked that, though they, unwilling to be drawn aside from the study of their new profession, were content to take with them only books of a purely military character, he could not be happy unless he had Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Macaulay for his daily companions. The hard-worn volumes give evidence of his constant use of them. After leaving college he repeatedly expressed himself tempted to follow the bent of his tastes, and continue his education in some foreign university; but other considerations had weight with him, and he soon turned his attention to manufacturing, with the purpose, to use his own language, of making himself master of its theory. He was thus occupied until the summer of 1859, when it was proposed
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