Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Harvard University:
the Bulkeley gift, 6;
William Emerson's graduation, 10;
list of graduates, 12;
Emerson's brothers, 19, 21;
Register, 21, 24, 385, 401;
Hillard, 24, 25;
Kirkland's presidency, 26, 27;
Gardner, 39-41;
Emerson's connection, 44-49;
the Boylston prizes, 46;
Southern students, 47;
graduates at Andover, 48;
Divinity School, 51, 53;
a New England centre, 52;
Bowen's professorship, 103;
Phi Beta Kappa oration, 107, 115, 133, 188, 244;
Divinity School address, 116-132;
degree conferred, 246;
lectures, 249;
library, 257;
last Divinity address, 294;
Commemoration, 307;
singing class, 361;
graduates, 411.
(See _Cambridge_.)
Haskins, David Green, at Emerson's funeral, 356.
Haskins, Ruth (Emerson's mother), 10, 13, 14.
Haughty, a characteristic expression, 405.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel:
his Mosses, 70;
"dream-peopled solitude," 86;
at the club, 223;
view of English life, 335;
grave, 356;
biography, 368.
Hazlitt, William:
British Poets, 21.
Health, inspiration, 289.
Hebrew Language, study, 48. (See _Bible_.)
Hedge, Frederic Henry:
at a party, 149;
quoted, 383.
Henry VII., tombs, 415.
Herbert, George:
Poem on Man, 102;
parallel, 170;
poetry, 281;
a line quoted, 345.
Herder, Johann Gottfried, allusion, 16.
Heredity:
Emerson's belief, 1, 2;
in Emerson family, 4, 19;
Whipple on, 389;
Jonson, 393.
Herrick, Robert, poetry, 281.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. (See _Emerson's Books_,--Nature.)
Hilali, The Flute, 399.
Hillard, George Stillman:
in college, 24, 25;
his literary place, 33;
aid, 276.
Hindoo Scriptures, 199, 200. (See _Bible, India_, etc.)
History, how it should be written, 168.
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood:
reference to, 223;
on the Burns speech, 225;
kindness, 273, 274, 276-279;
at Emerson's death-bed, 349;
funeral address, 351-353.
Hoar, Samuel:
statesman, 72;
tribute, 213, 214.
Holland, description of the Dutch, 217.
Holley, Horace, prayer, 267.
Holmes, John, a pupil of Emerson, 50.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell:
memories of Dr. Ripley, 15;
of C.C. Emerson, 20, 21;
familiarity with Cambridge and its college, 45;
erroneous quotation from, 251, 252;
jest erroneously attributed to, 400, 401.
Holy Ghost, "a new born bard of the," 123. (See _Christ, God,
Religion_, etc.)
Homer:
poetic rank, 202, 320;
plagiarism, 205;
Iliad, 253;
allusion, 315;
tin pans, 325;
times quoted, 382. (See _Greek_, etc.)
Homer, Jonathan, minister of Newton, 15.
Hooper, Mrs. Ellen, The Dial, 159, 160.
Hope:
lacking in America, 143;
in every essay, 284.
Horace:
allusion, 22;
Ars Poetica, 316.
Horses, Flora Temple's time, 388.
Howard University, speech, 263.
Howe, Samuel Gridley, the philanthropist, 223.
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