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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Hugo, Victor, parents of, i, 185;
marriage of, i, 188;
character of, i, 193;
his love of light, i, 200;
tomb of, i, 205;
wife of, v, 133;
childhood impressions of, iv, 341;
on the death of Balzac, xiii, 308;
Dore's illustrations of the works of, iv, 338;
on education, xi, 203;
on falsehood, vii, 371;
influence of, on Giuseppe Verdi, xiv, 292;
opinion of, regarding Rosa Bonheur, ii, 134;
on police officials, vi, 100;
quoted, ii, 80;
referred to, i, 306; ii, 183; iv, 230; v, 83;
on Shakespeare, i, 316;
as a stylist, ix, 388;
on the Unknown, xii, 89;
on Voltaire, viii, 320;
on Rousseau, viii, 241.
Huguenots, described, ii, 49;
in America, ii, 77;
banishment of, from France, iii, 231;
Puritans compared with, iii, 232;
in England, ii, 77;
virtues of, iii, 231.
_Human Comedy, The_, Balzac, xiii, 301.
Humanity, Schopenhauer on, viii, 362.
Human mind, duality of, i, 113.
Humboldt, Alexander von, i, 341;
on agriculture, xii, 140;
Bonpland and, xii, 146;
Auguste Comte and, viii, 254;
Ingersoll on, xii, 160;
Thomas Jefferson and, xii, 147;
lectures of, xii, 158;
religious views of, xii, 151;
_Subterranean Vegetation_, xii, 139;
John Tyndall and, xii, 351.
Hume, David, ii, 296; iii, 37; ix, 164; xii, 179.
Humility, v, 243.
Humor, i, 237; ii, 229; v, 70;
commonsense and, xii, 329;
Jefferson's sense of, iii, 73;
melancholy and, v, 156.
_Hunchback of Notre Dame_, Hugo, i, 193.
Hunt, Holman, ii, 123; v, 18;
quoted, xiii, 253.
Hunt, Leigh, i, 250;
Robert Browning and, v, 55;
cited, ii, 220;
grave of, i, 231;
the Shelleys and, ii, 307.
Hutchinson, Anne, ix, 294;
death of, ix, 362;
Mary Dyer and, ix, 359;
her arrival in Boston, ix, 343;
mother of New England Transcendentalism, ix, 356;
Sir Henry Vane and, ix, 358.
Hutton, _Literary Landmarks_, ii, 118.
Huxley, Thomas H., i, 56;
early life of, xii, 307;
the wife of, xii, 311;
Charles Darwin and, xii, 198;
Darwin compared with, xii, 313;
George Eliot and, xii, 329;
John Fiske and, xii, 313, 323;
on John Fiske, xii, 414;
Gladstone and, xii, 199;
on Gladstone, xii, 318;
Haeckel compared with, xii, 248;
Sir Joseph Hooker and, xii, 321;
Ingersoll compared with, xii, 319;
John Stuart Mill compared with, xii, 311;
Rev. Dr. Parker and, xii, 322;
Spencer and, viii, 345;
Toole the comedian and, xii, 322;
experience of, with the University of Toronto, xii, 326;
as a writer, xii, 327;
Canon Wilberforce and, xii, 226.
Hyacinths, white, vi, 235.
Hyde Park, London, i, 62.
Hymettus, honey of, v, 97.
Hypatia, Mrs. Eddy compared with, x, 280;
Emerson compared with, x, 280;
her estimate of Plotinus, x, 282;
on Neo-Platonism, x, 270;
on superstition, x, 275.
_Hypatia_, Charles Kingsley, x, 283.
Hypnotism, x, 274, 352.
Hypocrisy, vii, 268.
Ibsen, Henrik, xiii, 112;
quoted, xii, 182.
Iceland, i, p xxv.
Ideal life, Morris on the, vi, 16.
Ideal man, the, v, 198.
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