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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.) 4 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 3: early essayists (search)
hman, what of the night? Duty, as well as inclination, urges the Lay Preacher to sermonize, while others slumber. To read numerous volumes in the morning, and to observe various characters at noon, will leave but little time, except the night, to digest the one or speculate upon the other. The night, therefore, is often dedicated to composition, and while the light of the paly planets discovers at his desk the Preacher, more wan than they, he may be heard repeating emphatically with Dr. Young, Darkness has much Divinity for me. He is then alone, he is then at peace. No companions near, but the silent volumes on his shelf, no noise abroad, but the click of the village clock, or the bark of the village dog. The Deacon has then smoked his sixth, and last pipe, and asks not a question more, concerning Josephus, or the Church. Stillness aids study, and the sermon proceeds. The Lay Preacher (1796), p. 103. In reality, however, Dennie was as fond of conviviality as Steele, a
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)
odman, Spare that Tree, 279 Woods, William, 151 Woodworth, Samuel, 227, 227 n., 231, 279, 292 Woolman, John, 86-89, 212 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 288, 331 Woman in the nineteenth century, 343 Word of Congress, 174 Wordsworth, 183, 188, 194, 197, 212, 213,240, 262, 263, 264, 267, 268, 279, 332, 337 Works (Poe), 230 n. Works in prose and verse (Paine, R. T.), 179 Works of John Adams, 125 n., 129 n., 147 n. Works of Laurence Sterne M. A., the, 284 Wrangham, Archdeacon, 213 Wright, Fanny, 190 Writings of Benjamin Franklin, the, 94 n., 97 n., 139 n. Writings of John Dickinson, 130 n., 131 n. Wyandotte, 304 Wyclif, 34 X Xenophon, 93 Y Yankee Chronology, 226 Yankee land, 228 Yates, Robert, 147, 148, 149 Yellow Violet, the, 272 Yemassee, the, 314, 315 n., 316, 317 Yorker's Stratagem, 227 Young, Edward, 118, 162, 163, 165, 176, 235, 263 Young New York, 230 Z Zenobia, 324 Zimmermann, J. G., 186, 198 Zschokke, 219