Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great MusiciansHubbard, Elbert
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
Hubbard, Elbert
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Gainsborough, Thomas, xii, 179;
Margaret Burr and, vi, 138;
early life of, vi, 132;
Garrick and, vi, 142;
independence of, vi, 147;
landscapes of, vi, 137;
his love of country life, vi, 136;
on memory, vi, 140;
Reynolds compared with, iv, 287;
Sir Joshua Reynolds and, vi, 150;
Philip Thicknesse's life of, vi, 129;
Benjamin West and, vi, 150;
Wiltshire and, vi, 142.
Galileo, iv, 85;
Castelli on, xii, 83;
Giordano Bruno and, xii, 56;
inventions of, xii, 64;
Leonardo compared with, xii, 56;
John Milton and, xii, 82;
"the modern Archimedes," xii, 59;
Sir Isaac Newton compared with, xii, 37;
Pope Urban VIII and, xii, 78.
Gallio, proconsul of Achaia, viii, 46;
St. Paul and, ix, 189.
Galton, Sir Francis, quoted, xii, 305.
G. A. R., iii, 258.
Garden of Eden, ii, 111.
Garibaldi, Joseph, ix, 93;
Julius Caesar compared with, ix, 104;
Mazzini and, ix, 94, 101;
Savonarola compared with, ix, 124;
in South America, ix, 102.
_Garibaldi the Patriot_, Alexandre Dumas, ix, 115.
Garnett and Juliet, iii, p xi.
Garrick, David, v, 155; xii, 179: xiv, 260;
on Boswell, viii, 26;
his criticism of Joshua Reynolds, iv, 301;
Gainsborough and, vi, 142;
Johnson's epitaph on, v, 159.
Garrison, William Lloyd, iii, 259; vi, 148; vii, 221, 409;
Lyman Beecher and, vii, 395;
Henry George and, ix, 59;
Theodore Parker and, ix, 299.
Gates, General of U. S. Army, iii, 168.
Gautier, Theophile, i, 192;
Dore's illustrations of the works of, iv, 338;
quoted, xiii, 307.
Gaynor, Judge, on Whistler, vi, 333.
Genealogy, Icelandic, vi, 97.
Geneva in the 18th century, ix, 385.
Genius, i, 97; ii, p ix;
compared with courtesy, ii, 49;
creative, vii, 19;
definition of, iv, 329;
distinguishing work of, xii, 103;
essentially feminine, vi, 250;
formula for a, v, 12;
of the genus, viii, 250;
inspiration and, i, 134;
interesting example of, ii, 115;
madness and, vi, 286;
men of, i, 75;
Herbert Spencer on, vii, 316;
the stepping-stones of, xii, 191;
talent versus, vi, 56.
_Gentle Art of Making Enemies, The_, Whistler, vi, 330, 351.
Gentleman, Addison the best type of, v, 239;
Thomas Arnold's ideal of, x, 239;
the true, xii, 184.
Geognosy, xii, 139.
_Geographical Distribution of Animals, The_, Wallace, xii, 389.
George, Henry, xi, 228; xiii, 93;
early life of, ix, 59;
life of, in California, ix, 62;
lecture of, before the University of California, ix, 71;
John Stuart Mill and, ix, 74;
philosophy of, ix, 57; popularity of, in England, ix, 79;
_Progress and Poverty_, ix, 73;
quoted, xiii, 186;
Ricardo compared with, ix, 80;
Professor Swinton and, ix, 76;
E. L. Youmans and, ix, 78;
John Russell Young and, ix, 78.
George Junior Republic, the, x, 241.
George III and William Pitt, vii, 200.
Germanicus, Roman general, viii, 49.
Germans, virtues of the, xi, 205.
Germany, America's debt to, xii, 241.
_Germ, The_, chipmunk magazine, ii, 123.
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