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共 164 题- HOME LIFE OF GREAT AUTHORS.
- HOME LIFE
- OF
- GREAT AUTHORS
- BY
- HATTIE TYNG GRISWOLD
- SEVENTH EDITION
- PREFACE.
- H. T. G.
- CONTENTS.
- PAGE
- GOETHE 9
- ROBERT BURNS 24
- MADAME DE STAEL 34
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 43
- THOMAS DE QUINCEY 54
- WALTER SCOTT 64
- CHARLES LAMB 75
- CHRISTOPHER NORTH 85
- LORD BYRON 94
- SHELLEY 102
- WASHINGTON IRVING 112
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 122
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON 133
- THOMAS CARLYLE 142
- VICTOR HUGO 150
- GEORGE SAND 164
- THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 177
- EDWARD BULWER LYTTON 188
- ALFRED TENNYSON 197
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 207
- HENRY W. LONGFELLOW 220
- JOHN G. WHITTIER 238
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 251
- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 262
- ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BROWNING 274
- CHARLOTTE BRONTE 286
- MARGARET FULLER 302
- EDGAR ALLEN POE 312
- WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 322
- CHARLES DICKENS 335
- GEORGE ELIOT 351
- CHARLES KINGSLEY 363
- JOHN RUSKIN 372
- GOETHE.
- He says of her:--
- He goes on to say:--
- ROBERT BURNS.
- Could he but have governed himself--
- The father of Burns has been thus described by one who knew him well:--
- Again he says:--
- MADAME DE STAEL.
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
- De Quincey says of his boyhood:--
- He greeted Charles Mackay thus, when the latter called upon him:--
- Even James T. Fields, whose opinion of the poet was high, remarks:--
- Carlyle testifies on the same point:--
- And again:--
- THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
- Another writes:--
- He tells the story thus:--
- The struggle was a long and hard one, and of it he says:--
- WALTER SCOTT.
- We wonder does the--
- And if he still sees--
- And does he still throw the old pathos into the lines,--
- He thus describes her to his mother when announcing his engagement:--
- These are a few extracts from Miss Carpenter's letters:--
- After the burial he writes:--
- CHARLES LAMB.
- Then away on in 1833 he writes to Wordsworth:--
- CHRISTOPHER NORTH.
- LORD BYRON.
- SHELLEY.
- WASHINGTON IRVING.
- Some time after this he wrote to a friend:--
- He was thus described at this time:--
- George W. Curtis thus delightfully sketches the man:--
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
- In another little poem we are informed,--
- To another brother he said:--
- One who knew her well thus describes her character:--
- Another who visited them familiarly in their home wrote:--
- To another correspondent he writes:--
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
- Again:--
- Let us learn of Emerson the meaning of economy. He says:--
- THOMAS CARLYLE.
- VICTOR HUGO.
- GEORGE SAND.
- Liszt also tells us that--
- Again, in the later times, she said:--
- Now hear one who described her in old age:--
- Let us close with Matthew Arnold's tribute of respect:--
- HE KNOWETH.
- THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
- One more glimpse of Lady Holland:--
- Here are one or two touches of nature:--
- Here is a glimpse of the domestic economy of the great Holland House:--
- EDWARD BULWER LYTTON.
- His son says:--
- So says her son, and continues:--
- ALFRED TENNYSON.
- She continues:--
- And so on to the close:--
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
- And again:--
- Still again:--
- And later, when he was in Rome:--
- Here is what Hawthorne himself says of this time:--
- And, again, to her he writes:--
- HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
- And a little later:--
- Then, after the speech was read:--
- Then, a day or two later:--
- Again:--
- And again:--
- Some hint of real work may be found in this:--
- JOHN G. WHITTIER.
- The picture is very attractive of this
- The youngest sister, with "large, sweet, asking eyes," and the
- Another writer tells of:--
- That clear and bright observer Mr. Wasson says:--
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
- Among their schoolmates was Margaret Fuller. Dr. Holmes says of her:--
- Mr. Kennedy, in his life of the poet, thus describes him:--
- THE TWO STREAMS.
- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
- And only in after-years he--
- Mr. Underwood tells us that--
- And to his reverential eyes--
- Of his own personal trust he gives a picture in "Sea-Weed:"--
- ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BROWNING.
- Their perfect union he describes thus:--
- CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
- Again she writes, in 1845:--
- Again she writes to another:--
- She thus describes the meeting:--
- Again:--
- MARGARET FULLER.
- And again:--
- And still further:--
- EDGAR ALLAN POE.
- Mrs. Osgood, who knew him in the later days in New York, says of him:--
- WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
- In one of the "Roundabouts" he says:--
- CHARLES DICKENS.
- Hans Christian Andersen thus describes a visit to Gad's Hill:--
- Mr. Mackenzie writes:--
- Jerrold continues:--
- Mr. Forster describes him thus:--
- Another keen observer writes:--
- Mr. Mackenzie tells us:--
- In his will he says:--
- GEORGE ELIOT.
- During her early youth she writes thus to a friend:--
- Again:--
- Of the outcome of that watchful tenderness Mr. Cross says:--
- She writes thus of this marriage:--
- CHARLES KINGSLEY.
- And, again, from St. Louis he writes:--
- JOHN RUSKIN.
- Again he says:--
- End of Project Gutenberg's Home Life of Great Authors, by Hattie Tyng Griswold