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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.) 8 0 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 4: Edwards (search)
scussion with his epigram: All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. That is sufficient, no doubt, for the conduct of life; yet there is perhaps another way of escape, which, if it does not entirely silence the metaphysical difficulties, at least gives them a new ethical turn. Twice in the course of his argument Edwards refers to an unnamed Arminian Edwards, it should seem, had immediately in mind the Essay on the freedom of Will in God and the Creature of Isaac Watts; but the notion had been discussed at length by Locke (Essay II, xxi), and at an earlier date had been touched on with great acumen by John Norris in his correspondence with Henry More. who placed the liberty of the soul not in the will itself, but in some power of suspending volition until due time has elapsed for judging properly the various motives to action. His reply is that this suspension of activity, being itself an act of volition, merely throws back without annulling the diffic
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)
treet church in Boston through the greater part of his ministerial life. After the Declaration, he became a staunch and vehement Tory, lost his former popularity, and died embittered and broken in 1788. He corresponded with Lansdowne, Pope, and Watts, took himself seriously as a poet, at least in his younger days; and in his attention to contemporary English literature and his setting up of something approaching an aesthetic standard in verse, represents a definite change from the point of vription of the physical phenomena of the last day, and a shorter poem, The Comet, are both in the spirit of Wigglesworth, for all their heroic couplets and artificial diction. His elegies are unadulterated Pope; and his hymns are in imitation of Watts. One of the first volumes of miscellaneous verse published in America was the Poems by several hands (Boston, 1744). All the poems are anonymous; and aside from humorous ballads probably by Joseph Green, they merely echo Pope, with a plethora
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)
232 Waller, Edmund, 158, 159 Walsh, Robert, 208, 237 Wandering boys, 231 Wansey, Henry, 202 Ward, Nathaniel, 39-41, 154 Ware, Henry, 350 Ware, William, 324 Warren, 221 Warren, Mrs., Mercy, 217, 218, 218 n. Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians, 25 Washington, 91, 139, 140, 141, 144, 46, 168, 190, 195, 198, 202, 225, 226, 245, 258, 295 Washington and the Theatre, 216 n. Watch-tower, 18 Water-Witch, the, 300 Watson, Bishop, 91 Watteau, 111 Watts, Isaac, 70 n., 159, 160 Way of the Congregational churches Cleared, the, 37 Wayne, Anthony, 203 Ways of the hour, the, 305 Weakness of Brutus exposed, the, 148 Webb, George, 161 Webster, Daniel, 250 Webster, Noah, 91, 148, 233, 292, 354 Webster, Pelatiah, 148 Wedderburn, Lord, 99 Weekly magazine, the, 288, 290 Weems, M. L., 315 Welby, Adlard, 207 Weld, Isaac, 189, 202, 206 Welde, Thomas, 156 Wells, Richard, 136 Wemyss, F. C., 221 n., 223 n. Wept of wish-ton