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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 32 6 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 30 2 Browse Search
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.) 8 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 7 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 2 Browse Search
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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.), Chapter 1: travellers and explorers, 1583-1763 (search)
ew World because they made a voyage along its coastline or resided for a little while at some seaside settlement. Sir Humphrey Gilbert on his homeward voyage from the New-found-land in 1583, sitting abaft with a book in his hand, while the Golden Hiigh pyramidwise, is the finest type of the seamen who made the English occupation of America possible. The narrative of Gilbert's fatal voyage, written by Edward Haie, found a place in the ample store-house of adventurous records which makes all whsh the debtors of Richard Hakluyt. It is an accident of geography which gives American readers a valid claim upon Humphrey Gilbert and his precursors and successors who told their straightforward tales for Hakluyt or for the booksellers who issuedcial attraction in the earlier days upon the adventurers who felt a longing to express themselves in literary form. Humphrey Gilbert was accompanied thither by the learned Stephen Parmenius of Buda, whose Latin verses Ad Thamesin are preserved on Ha
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.), Index. (search)
phy, a, 82 General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the summer Isles, the, 17 General magazine and historical chronicles for all the British colonies in America, the, 95, 121 Gentleman's magazine, the, 98, 121 Geography made easy, 187 George II, 125 George II, III, 125, 168, 216 George Balcombe, 312 Georgia Spec., or land in the Moon, a, 219 Gerry, Elbridge, 148 Gerstacker, Friedrich, 325 Gibbon, Edward, 343 Gifford, William, 171, 178, 206, 249 Gilbert, Sir, Humphrey, I, 3 Gladiator, the, 221, 224 Glance at New York, a, 228 Gleaner, 233 Gloria Brittannorum, 159 Glory of Columbia, the, 219, 226 Godfrey, Thomas, 122, 216-217, 218 Godfrey, Thomas, Jr., 122, 161, 176, 177 God's controversy with New England, 157 God's Protecting Providence, etc., 7 Godwin, Parke, 260 n., 262 n., 266 n., 269 n., 272 n., 276, 277, 277 n., 282 n. Godwin, William, 288, 290, 291, 292, 307, 331 Goethe, 188, 212, 268, 332 Golden Fleece, t