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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 8: American political writing, 1760-1789 (search)
merican Colonies, and A friendly address to all Reasonable Americans. In August, 1775, a mob stripped and mutilated him, but he contrived to escape to a British ship-of-war, and thence to England, where he obtained ecclesiastical preferment. Charles Lee, soon to be numbered among the renegades and traitors, but at the moment in the enjoyment of a repute as a military expert which he had done little to earn, replied to Cooper with some cleverness in Strictures on a pamphlet, entitled a Friendly address to all Reasonable Americans (1775)-the only contribution of Lee's to the patriot cause for which he may be appreciatively remembered. Although not published until 1797, by which time the author had been for more than twenty years resident in England, Jonathan Boucher's A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution may perhaps be included in our enumeration of loyalist writings. From 1762 to 1775 Boucher was rector of parishes in Maryland and Virginia, finding t
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 4: Irving (search)
ne qualification which is lacking in the make — up of not a few conscientious and able historians. His strain of romance and his power of imagination enabled him to picture to himself and to make vivid the scenes described, and the nature, the purpose, and the manner of thought of each character introduced. The reader is brought into personal association with the force and dignity of the great leader; with the assumption, the vanity, the exaggerated opinion of his powers and ability of Charles Lee; with the sturdy patriotism, the simple-hearted nature, persistence, and pluck of the pioneer fighter Israel Putnam; with the skill, leadership, and unselfishness of Philip Schuyler; with the pettiness and bumptiousness of Gates; with the grace, fascination, and loyalty of Lafayette; and with the varied attainments and brilliant qualities of that wonderful youth Alexander Hamilton. We are not simply reading descriptions, we are looking at living pictures, and the historic narrative has t
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)
older, Letters of A, 148 La Nouvelle Heloise, I 19 Lansdowne, George Granville (1667-1735), 159 La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 91, 190 Last Leaf, the, 320 Last of the Mohicans, the, 208, 297-298, 299 Late regulations respecting the British colonies, etc., The, 130 Laud, 36, 42, 46 Launcelot Langstaff, 233 Lavoisier, 91 Lawson, John, 26 Lay Preacher, the, 234, 235, 235 n., 236 Leacock, John, 217 Lectures and biographies, 350 Lee, Dr., Arthur, 120 Lee, Charles, 138, 259 Lee, Richard Henry, 135, 148 Legare, Hugh Swinton, 237 Legends of Sleepy Hollow, 256 Legends of the Alhambra, 249 Legends of the thirteen Republics, 297 Legends of the West, 318 Leicester, 219, 224 Lenox, Charlotte, 217 Leonard, Daniel, 137 Leonard, W. E., 280 n. Leonor de Guzman, 223, 224 Letterfrom a Gentleman at Halifax, to his friend in Rhode Island, a, 128 Letter from Aristocles, 83 n. Letter in defence of Aristocles, 83 n. Letter to hi