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Updated: June 22, 2025
Among those present at the trial was Henry T. Tuckerman, who has left us an account of the circumstances and of the bearing of the man. "A more unpopular cause," he wrote, "never fell to the lot of a practiced advocate; for the hero of Lake Erie was and had long been one of the most cherished of American victors.
Don't you come nearer, Jake Houck! Don't you! If you do I'll I'll " Dr. Tuckerman put his hand gently on her shoulder. "It's all right, June. Here's your father. We won't let Houck near you. Better lie down now and rest." "Why must I lie down?" she asked belligerently. "Who are you anyhow, mister?" "I'm the doctor. You're not quite well. We're looking after you." Tolliver came forward timorously.
According to Bayard Tuckerman, who edited the Diary and wrote the Introduction to it, an ordinary day's work for Hone was "to ride out on horseback to the Bloomingdale Asylum, to return and pass the afternoon at the Bank for Savings, thence to attend a meeting of the Trinity Vestry, or to preside over the Mercantile Library Association." "He was never," said Mr.
As MR. TUCKERMAN has said of him, "Unlike his predecessor, he is a Greek by sympathy of language and ideas.
The old Biblical distinction between the scribes and the man who speaks with authority still holds. We may say of all other New England essayists and poets Lowell, Whipple, Tuckerman, Holmes, Hillard, Whittier, Longfellow that they are scribes only. Emerson alone speaks as one having authority the authority of the spirit.
The call for the meeting had been sent out a few weeks before, the men composing the signing committee being John G. Chapman, A.B. Burand, C.C. Ingham, A.M. Cozzens, F.W. Edmonds, and H.T. Tuckerman. The original Centurions were forty-two in number, of whom twenty-five came from the Sketch, and six from the Column.
Moreover, I was glad to please him, and please him it did to set the little table back against the wall of vines, to place my chair in the shaded corner, and to fetch the incomparable results of his cookery from the kitchen, couched and covered in snowy napkins against the morning breeze. John Randolph Clement Tuckerman he was; Mr.
The color washed away beneath the tan of the father's face. "Where's she at?" "Here at the hotel. Mrs. Gillespie an' Doc Tuckerman are lookin' after her." "I'd like to go to her right away." "Sure. Dud, you know where the room is. Take Mr. Tolliver there." "Pete." Houck's voice was hoarse, but no longer defiant.
Gardner Knowles brought a poem of his once, which he had borrowed from him, and read it to the company, Stephanie, Ethel Tuckerman, Lane Cross, and Irma Ottley assembled. "Listen to this," Knowles had suddenly exclaimed, taking it out of his pocket. It concerned a garden of the moon with the fragrance of pale blossoms, a mystic pool, some ancient figures of joy, a quavered Lucidian tune.
H. T. Tuckerman is a genial and appreciative writer, combining extensive scholarship with elevated sentiment and feeling. Richard Grant White's "Commentaries on Shakspeare" have met with a cordial reception from all Shakspearean scholars.
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