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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.) 30 0 Browse Search
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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 16 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 8 0 Browse Search
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 4 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 2 0 Browse Search
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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 1: family and boyhood. (search)
. His sister, who had been admiring his patience and calmness, said, I wonder you did not strike it across the railing. He laughed, and replied: You remember the boot. I have not forgotten it; but I have learned that a soldier should have perfect control of himself, to be able to control others. That this was not a young man's idle boast, subsequent events will show. Poets, wits, and men of letters, often exhibit precocious signs of coming greatness; Pope lisped in numbers, and Poor Goldsmith jested as a boy; but the youth of men of action is usually spent in uneventful preparation for the work before them, and their early record is generally unmarked by interesting incidents, or wise and witty sayings. The chief value of what little can be gathered of the youth of Albert Sidney Johnston lies in its entire consistency with his after-life. It is in this view that such glimpses of his boyhood, and life at West Point, as can be collected, are here given. On his way to West Poin
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), The perils of Pedagogy. (search)
The perils of Pedagogy. Mr. Croaker, in a chronic condition of alarm, lends to one of Goldsmith's comedies much of its vivacity and mirth; and the dreadful fright of a certain Mr. Matthews, member of the Virginia Legislature, is comic enough to temper the austerities of the recent tragedy. We knew that John Brown would be a name wherewithal to conjure several generations of undutiful infants into obedience at bed-time, just as it has jostled children of larger growth into unwinking watchfulness, and scared the Commander of the Crustacea into unoyster-like volubility. The fearful forebodings of our Virginian friends do not surprise us. It is perfectly natural for their to dread the spontaneous combustion of The Tribune in their post-offices — the explosion of infernal machines in their cellars — poison in the kitchen, or rifle-balls flying through the drawing-room windows. Sir Boyle Roche regarded it as one of the principal perils of the Irish Rebellion that gentlemen might any
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Alexander the Bouncer. (search)
stical way in which Dean Swift's fastidious Houyhnhnms always spoke of falsehood and of falsifiers. The Hon. Y. P. Alex. Ham. Stephens upon arriving at Atlanta, Ga., was received by a large crowd; and in return he ungratefully made a speech calculated largely to delude the large crowd, and considerably to lower himself in the estimation of old-fashioned folk with a prejudice in favor of the truth. From a great variety of mendacities, we select, the following as being, to use the words of Goldsmith, the damnable bounce of the occasion. A threatening war is upon us, made by those who have no regard for right. We fight for our homes! They for money. The hirelings and mercenaries of the North are all hand and hand against you. Now, Stephens, what did you mean by that? Is not Washington just as much the home of the Massachusetts man as of the Georgian? You took a pretty long journey to Virginia to persuade men from the path of honor and of loyalty. Were you at home there? A
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.8 (search)
and, later, we took a short railway trip to Lake Ponchartrain, which is a fair piece of water, and is a great resort for bathers. When we returned to the city, late in the evening, I was fairly instructed in the topography of the city and neighbourhood, and had passed a most agreeable and eventful day. On the next evening, I found a parcel addressed to me, which, when opened, disclosed a dozen new books in splendid green and blue covers, bearing the names of Shakespeare, Byron, Irving, Goldsmith, Ben Jonson, Cowper, etc. They were a gift from Mr. Stanley, and in each book was his autograph. The summer of 1859, according to Mr. Richardson, was extremely unhealthy. Yellow fever and dysentery were raging. What a sickly season meant I could not guess; for, in those days, I never read a newspaper, and the city traffic, to all appearance, was much as usual. On Mr. Speake's face, however, I noticed lines of suffering; and one day he was so ill that he could not attend to business.
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 19: (search)
rn newspapers, at seeing himself called hard names—whether by the mob or officials. Knowing his late fellow-citizens well, he knew that it was of no use for them to Strive to expel strong nature, 'tis in vain; With redoubled force, she will return again. Immediately after anchoring, in Fort de France, I sent a lieutenant on shore, to call on the Governor, report our arrival, and ask for the usual hospitalities of the port,—these hospitalities being, as the reader is aware, such as Goldsmith described as welcoming him at his inn, the more cheerfully rendered, for being paid for. I directed my lieutenant to use rather the language of demand—courteously, of course—than of petition, for I had seen the French proclamation of neutrality, and knew that I was entitled, under the orders of the Emperor, to the same treatment, that a Federal cruiser might receive. I called, the next day, on the Governor myself. I found him a very affable, and agreeable gentleman. He was a rear admir
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
109,366MartinNov. 15, 1870. 110,740ColeJan. 3, 1871. 110,810WhiteJan. 3, 1871. 112,019ColeFeb. 21, 1871. 112,223ColeFeb. 28, 1871. 114,387Allebaugh et al.May 2, 1871. (Reissue.)4,376MartinMay 9, 1871. 115,197HarrisMay 23, 1871. 116,195Judd et al.June 20, 1871. 116,570DaltonJuly 4, 1871. 116,761SecorJuly 4, 1871. 1. Binders. (continued). No.Name.Date. 119,555BartlettOct. 3, 1871. 120,513HallOct. 31, 1871. 120,969HarrisNov. 14, 1871. 121,014SmithNov. 15, 1871. 121,356GoldsmithNov. 28, 1871. 121,516HarrisDec. 5, 1871. 124,206Goodrich et al.Mar. 5, 1872. 124,968MoschowitzMar. 26, 1872. 125,590MartinApr. 9, 1872. 125,674GrosfeldApr. 16, 1872. 127,158DaltonMay 28, 1872. 128,216DulaneyJune 25, 1872. 130,021ComingsJuly 30, 1872. 130,914GrosfeldAug. 27, 1872. 131,583WhiteSept. 24, 1872. (Reissue.)5,180DouglasDec. 10, 1872. 135,381StollJan. 28, 1873. 138,306WoodApr. 29, 1873. 138,772WestMay 13, 1873. 139,378EarleMay 27, 1873. 140,233AlexanderJune 24,
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 2: (search)
to the armor. This was the condition of Charles Sumner. His tastes and inclinations also led him to the belles-lettres and humanities. He practically took, as every one who means to make the most of his abilities will do, a kind of elective course. He gave himself to the study of history, of rhetoric, eloquence, and poetry. He read with zest and keen avidity the works of the great masters. He was fascinated by the splendid diction of Hume and Gibbon, the charming style of Addison and Goldsmith, the glowing eloquence of William Pitt, of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and of Edmund Burke. His imagination was enkindled by the golden thoughts of Dante, Milton (always with him a favorite), Dryden, Pope, and Shakspeare. With these immortal geniuses he lived, and from them drew his inspiration. He strolled, moreover, into distant and untrodden fields of literature, and, as the bee, selected honey from unnoticed flowers. Here he gathered sweets from some French poet of the medieval ages
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Centennial Contributions (search)
her writer of the nineteenth century, but still more like Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield and the House of the seven Gableyet there was little outward similarity between them, for Goldsmith was often gay and sometimes frivolous; and although Hawthed a line of poetry he was the more poetic of the two, as Goldsmith was the more dramatic. He also resembled Goldsmith in hiGoldsmith in his small financial difficulties. In his persistent reserve, in the seriousness of his delineation, and in his indifference her writer of the nineteenth century, but still more like Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield and the House of the seven Gableyet there was little outward similarity between them, for Goldsmith was often gay and sometimes frivolous; and although Hawthed a line of poetry he was the more poetic of the two, as Goldsmith was the more dramatic. He also resembled Goldsmith in hiGoldsmith in his small financial difficulties. In his persistent reserve, in the seriousness of his delineation, and in his indifference
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 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
English as those of their prototypes; their heroic couplet is that of Pope or Goldsmith; their blank verse is that of Thomson or Young. The tide set in with imitaore prompt and general and, after the Revolution, immediate and universal. Goldsmith reached Americans almost at once, and appeared in nine editions between 1768 s by English poets. The one poem that sums up all the direct imitations of Goldsmith, and Thomson, and of Denham, Milton, Pope, and Beattie as well, is Greenfielditions in the decade following the Revolution. The verse is that of Pope and Goldsmith, from whom many passages are paraphrased; the style is a parody of Homer, Danmported romanticism in The Wizard of the rock, a blend of Parnell, Percy, and Goldsmith; and Maria's grave, which is placed amid the romantic scenery pictured by thency; of Gray, as in The monument of Phaon and The Deserted Farm House; and of Goldsmith, as in The American village-all of which contain lines of original power and
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 3: early essayists (search)
sin in Launcelot Langstaff of Salmagundi, memories of l'espion turc were evoked by Wirt's Letters of a British spy, and Goldsmith's Lien Chi Altangi dropped a small corner of his mantle on Irving's Mustapha Ruba-Dub Kheli Khan and S. L. Knapp's Shahaper devoted to belles lettres, failed to set Boston ablaze. Yankee readers objected to his exercises in the manner of Goldsmith and Addison as sprightly rather than moral. While a law-student, Dennie had supplemented his income by reading sermonsacher (1796), p. 103. In reality, however, Dennie was as fond of conviviality as Steele, and as elegant in dress as Goldsmith. His literary pose had little in common with his actual habits of composition, as described by a former printer's devi up, and the tolls levied at Kissing Bridge formed a standing jest. In such an environment the tradition of Steele and Goldsmith culminated not unworthily with Salmagundi, a buoyant series of papers ridiculing the follies of 1807. Thereafter imita
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