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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 138 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 30 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 29 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 26 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 18 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 16 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 15 1 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
en, See also Book I, Chap. IX. who became well known for his puns, has left us some mischievous lines on Doctor Byles's cat (1733). The popular impression of Green is embodied in an epitaph which was written for him by one of his friends: Siste, Viator, Here lies one Whose life was whim, whose soul was pun, And if you go too near his hearse, He'll joke you both in prose and verse. These few specimens show, if they show nothing more, that other spirits than Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards were alive in America in the eighteenth century. The Revolution produced its humour chiefly in the form of political satire; the principal names are Francis Hopkinson, John Trumbull, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau. For these four poets see Book I, Chap. IX. The first two were perhaps most important in this connection. Hopkinson's Battle of the Kegs was as good for the American cause as the winning of a real battle. In the grim year of 1778, this poem went into every American camp,
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 22: divines and moralists, 1783-1860 (search)
Jonathan Edwards See Book I, Chap. IV for Edwards. For divines other than Congregational and U a focus. Let us rather say two focuses: for Edwards is great precisely in the intensity with whichought of American divines and moralists from Edwards to Beecher moves from tough to tender, parallr the flesh or after the spirit, included Jonathan Edwards the younger (1745-1801), a systematic therd, a young consumptive, who was to have been Edwards's son-in-law, died before him. Hopkins, moreot, however, in a second intimate contact with Edwards while the latter was conducting the mission tng in love for universal being; and some of Mrs. Edwards's own religious experiences while Hopkins rd and reduced to a system the materials which Edwards left unco-ordinated. So tough-minded was he hort passages of a sober eloquence not unlike Edwards's own. Of the congregation to whom Dr. Swift arers; and tells by the way of his awe of Jonathan Edwards, I never could read . . . Sinners in the [6 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
1 Edgarton, Sarah C., 174 Edgeworth, Maria, 397, 399 Edinburgh review, the, 109, 140, 145, Edward Fane's Rosebud, 23 Edwards, Harry Stillwell, 348 Edwards, Jonathan, 150, 196, 196 n., 197, 198, 199, 203, 215 Edwards, Mrs., Jonathan, 199 Edwards, Jonathan, Jr., 198, 207 Eggleston, Edward, 362, 363, 379, 383, 404Edwards, Mrs., Jonathan, 199 Edwards, Jonathan, Jr., 198, 207 Eggleston, Edward, 362, 363, 379, 383, 404 Eggleston, G. C., 304, 308, 404 Eight Cousins, 402 Eldorado, 60 Elements of international law, 78 Eleanora, 68 Eliot, John, 203 Elizabeth, Queen of England, 138 Elizabeth Wetherell. See Warner, Susan Ellis, Edward S., 404 Elsie books, 398 Elsie Venner, 3, 224, 228, 232, 233 Elsket, and other storiesEdwards, Jonathan, Jr., 198, 207 Eggleston, Edward, 362, 363, 379, 383, 404 Eggleston, G. C., 304, 308, 404 Eight Cousins, 402 Eldorado, 60 Elements of international law, 78 Eleanora, 68 Eliot, John, 203 Elizabeth, Queen of England, 138 Elizabeth Wetherell. See Warner, Susan Ellis, Edward S., 404 Elsie books, 398 Elsie Venner, 3, 224, 228, 232, 233 Elsket, and other stories, 388 Elson, Louis C., 353 Emancipator, the, 188 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 50, 112, 165, 166, 173, 197, 209, 211, 213, 226, 228, 231, 241, 245, 249, 257, 260, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 276, 283, 344, 349, 372 Emerson, Rev., William, 162 Emmett, Dan D., 291 Emory