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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
ty-one; and William Cragy and wife in 1775, each aged one hundred years. Col. James Davis was one of these emigrants, and he was a man of remarkable stature as well as years. He died in 1749, aged eighty-eight Birthplace of Benj. F. Butler at Deerfield, N. H. years. Samuel, ninety-nine years; James, ninety-three years; Thomas, eighty-eight years; Daniel, sixty-five years; Sarah, ninety-one years; Hannah, seventy-seven years; Elizabeth, seventy-nine years; Ephraim, eighty-seven years; and Phoebe, aged eighty-five years, the widow of Samuel, aged one hundred and two years, were living in 1792. These noticeable facts bear evidence of the healthfulness of a climate where the air was impregnated with a profusion of the effluvia from resinous trees. From the beginning, the many great men who have stood out before the country as representatives of New Hampshire will be found to be descendants, either lineally or collaterally, from these progenitors. One of the descendants of the
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.25 (search)
e-hearted, affectionate, upright old man. He is not free, to the closing letter, of the Lowellian imperfections; but these do not detract from the esteem which I find to be increasing for him; like the weaknesses of some of one's personal friends, I rather like Lowell the better for them, for they lighten one's mood of severe respect towards him. After dipping into one or two specimens of poetry which the book contains, his letters do not reveal him wholly, in my opinion. There is one to Phoebe which deeply moved me, and I feel convinced there must be gems of thought among his poetical productions. As I closed the books, Lowell's image, though I never saw him, came vividly before me as he sat in Elmwood library, listening to the leafy swirl without, the strange sounds made by winds in his ample chimney, and the shrill calls, wee-wee, of the mice behind the white wainscoting! May his covering of earth lie lightly, and his soul be in perfect communion with his loved dead! Dec
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battles. (search)
and Poictiers (former surrendered)Oct. 18, 1812 United States and Macedonian (latter defeated)Oct. 25, 1812 Constitution and Java (latter defeated)Dec. 29, 1812 Chesapeake and Shannon (former defeated)June 1, 1813 Enterprise and Boxer (latter defeated)Sept. 5, 1813 Argus and Pelican (former defeated)Aug. 14, 1813 Hornet and Peacock (latter defeated)Aug. 24, 1813 American fleet of nine vessels and British fleet of six vessels on Lake Erie (latter defeated)Sept. 10, 1813 Essex and the Phoebe and Cherub (former surrendered)Mar. 28, 1814 Wasp and Reindeer (latter defeated)June 28, 1814 Wasp and Avon (latter defeated)Sept. 1, 1814 American fleet of sixteen vessels and the British fleet on Lake Champlain (latter defeated)Sept. 11, 1814 President and the Endymion, Majestic, and two other British ships (former defeated)Sept. 16, 1814 Hornet and Penguin (latter defeated)Jan. 22, 1815 Black Hawk War. (See Black Hawk). May to August, 1832. Seminole War--1835-42. MicanopyJune 9, 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Essex, the, (search)
med Essex Junior, cruised off the harbor as a scout, to give warning of the approach of any man-of-war. Very soon two English men-of-war were reported in the offing. They sailed into the harbor, and proved to be the Phoebe, thirty-six guns, Captain Hillyar, and her consort, the Cherub, twenty-two guns, Captain Tucker. The former mounted thirty long 18-pounders, sixteen 32-pounder carronades, and one howitzer; also six 3-pounders in her tops. Her crew consisted of 320 men Essex fighting Phoebe and Cherub. and boys. the Cherub mounted eighteen 32-pounder carronades below, with eight 24-pounder carronades and two long nines above, making a total of twenty-eight guns. Her crew numbered 180. the Essex at that time could muster only 225, and the Essex Junior only sixty. the Essex had forty 32-pounder carronades and The Essex and her prizes in Massachusetts Bay, Nooaheevah. six long 12-pounders; and the Essex Junior had only ten 18-pounder carronades and ten short sixes. The Br
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
, a young lawyer who once lived here and was at one time engaged to our pretty Susan Gray? He is now in Boston; never heard Wendell Phillips speak till the time of Richard S. Fay's row, then fell desperately in love with him and in all the dangers since was his bodyguard, never leaving him and watching many nights in his house. This he enjoyed thoroughly, being a trained athlete and a natural soldier. When I saw him at Wendell's planning with us to mount guard, and then turning to pretty Phoebe-- to arrange little plans to keep everybody still and spare Mrs. P.'s nerves, I thought to myself that the adopted daughter might prove the next attraction, and now it turns out they are engaged. He is tall, erect, strong, blond, Saxon, and she a brunette with lovely eyes and a Welsh smile — you know her mother was Welsh; they will be a picturesque couple, and it is quite a chivalrous little affair. August, 1852 Dearest Mother: The difference between Perry--, of Worcester . . and his
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
-78, 92, 142, 143. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 129. Browning, Robert, 68, 183, 215, 225, 229, 260-262, 265. Bryant, William Cullen, 81, 100-104. Buckingham, Joseph T., 93. Buel, Rev. J. W., 262. Bunker Hill, Battle of, 61, 135. Burns, Robert, 35, 36, 68, 69, 114, 152, 153. Burroughs, John, 264. Byrd, Col., William, 199. Byron, Lord, 277. Cabot, George, 46, 48. Caleb Williams, Godwin's, 72. Cantata, Lanier's, 224. Carlyle, Thomas, 169, 170, 179, 260, 282. Cary, Alice and Phoebe, 241. Chambered Nautilus, Holmes's, 159, 163, 264. Channing, William Ellery, 10, 110, 111, 114-116, 183, 192. Channing, William Ellery, the younger, 177, 264. Chanting the Square Deific, Whitman's, 232. Charlotte Temple, Mrs. Rowson's, 92, 241. Chasles, M. Philarete, 244. Chastellux, Marquis de, 54. Chatham, Lord, 44, 45. Child, Lydia Maria, 125, 126. Choate, Rufus, 112. Christabel, Coleridge's, 219. Christianus per Ignem, Mather's, 17. Christus: a Miystery, Longf
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
y this story of old Salem is impeccably written and its subtle handling of tone and atmosphere is beyond dispute. An ancestral curse, the visitation of the sins of the fathers upon the children, the gradual decay of a once sound stock, are motives that Ibsen might have developed. But the Norseman would have failed to rival Hawthorne's delicate manipulation of his shadows, and the no less masterly deftness of the ultimate mediation of a dark inheritance through the love of the light-hearted Phoebe for the latest descendant of the Maules. In The Blithedale romance Hawthorne stood for once, perhaps, too near his material to allow the rich atmospheric effects which he prefers, and in spite of the unforgetable portrait of Zenobia and powerful passages of realistic description, the book is not quite focussed. In The Marble Faun Hawthorne comes into his own again. Its central problem is one of those dark insoluble ones that he loves: the influence of a crime upon the development of a so
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
er had and that they needed. Of the lesser luminaries in New York little need be said. They include William Winter (1836-1917), who early came from Massachusetts, primarily a dramatic critic See Book III, Chap. XIII. but also the author of verses resembling those of his poet friends: Emma Lazarus (1849-87), born in New York of Portuguese Jewish ancestry, some of whose work is remarkable for its Hebraic intensity See Book III, Chap. XIII.; and the Cary sisters, Alice (1820-71) and Phoebe (1824-71), who came from Ohio, importing the sentimental and moralizing tendency of the age along with a sweetness and beauty by virtue of which they still have some charm. Two Philadelphians already mentioned, George H. Boker (1823-90） See Book II, Chap. II. and Thomas B. Read (1822-72), See Book III, Chap. II. may be named here again on account of their association with writers of the New York group. Boker, distinguished as a dramatist, began authorship with The lesson of life,
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 2: little Julia Ward 1819-1835; aet. 1-16 (search)
she was, Julia felt at once that her embrace was unexpected and unwelcome. Sometimes they went to the pleasant farm at Jamaica, Long Island, where Lieutenant-Colonel Ward was living at this time, with his unmarried sons, and his two daughters, Phoebe and Anne. Phoebe was an invalid saint. She lived in a darkened room, and the plates and dishes from which she ate were of brown china or crockery, as she fancied her eyes could not bear white. Anne was equally pious, but more normal. She itPhoebe was an invalid saint. She lived in a darkened room, and the plates and dishes from which she ate were of brown china or crockery, as she fancied her eyes could not bear white. Anne was equally pious, but more normal. She it was who managed the farm, and who would always bring the cheeses to New York herself for the market, lest any of the family grow proud and belittle the dignity of honest work. It is from Jamaica that Mrs. Ward writes to her mother a letter which shows that though the tenderest of mothers, she had been strictly imbued with the Old Testament ideas of bringing up children. Dearest Mother, I find myself better since I came hither.... Husband more devoted than ever; children sweet thoa some
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Spenser (search)
ily! B. II. c. VIII. 3. Joseph Warton objects to Spenser's stanza, that its constraint led him into many absurdities. Of these he instances three, of which I shall notice only one, since the two others (which suppose him at a loss for words and rhymes) will hardly seem valid to any one who knows the poet. It is that it obliged him to dilate the thing to be expressed, however unimportant, with trifling and tedious circumlocutions, namely, Faery Queen, II. II. 44:— Now hath fair Phoebe with her silver face Thrice seen the shadows of this nether world, Sith last I left that honorable place, In which her royal presence is enrolled. That is, it is three months since I left her palace. Observations on Faery Queen, Vol. I. pp. 158, 159. Mr. Hughes also objects to Spenser's measure, that it is closed always by a fullstop, in the same place, by which every stanza is made as it were a distinct paragraph. （Todd's Spenser, II. XLI.) But he could hardly have read the poem atten
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