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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.) 6 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 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
ever he was, understood the public, was a man of some imagination, and knew how to combine Carver's own material with observations from previous writers; nor does he fail to mention, in the casual way of the time, authorities like Charlevoix and Adair, from whom, as we now look at things, we must say he unblushingly filches. Here is one of the examples pointed out by Professor Bourne. Charlevoix had said of the Indians in the English translation: On the smoothest grass, or the hardest for a book. He could write a long coherent letter to his first wife, and specimens of his writing are not in the hand of an ignorant man. He, not less than his assistant or assistants in publication, could have met with the works of Charlevoix, Adair, and Lahontan in London book-stalls. But it was hardly his pen that made reference to Plato and Grotius. The volume is dedicated To Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Then follows, in the second edition, a magniloquent Address to
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)
Index. This index covers only the text. To find the bibliography for a given author observe the chapter in which his name occurs and then consult the proper section in the Bibliographies. A Abaellino, 219, 231 Absalom and Achitophel, 158-159 Accidence or the path-way to experience, an, 17 Account of the European settlements, 212 Account of the New invented Pennsylvanian fire places, an, 96 Achilles, 268 Adair, James, 193 Adams, Charles, 220 Adams, John, 91, 125, 129, 131, 137-138, 144, 146, 147, 172 Adams, Rev., John, 160-161 Adams, Samuel, 30, 132, 144 Adams and liberty, 179 Addison, 94, 109, I12, 113, 1x6, l18, 159, 233, 234, 237, 238, 244, 254, 256 Address to the Freemen of South Carolina, an, 148 Address to the House of burgesses, 142 Address to the people of the state of New York, an (John Jay), 148 Address to the people of the state of New York (Melancthon Smith), 148 Address to the Supreme being, 161 Ad Thamesin, 3 A