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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.) 24 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 8 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War 4 0 Browse Search
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
lled the division of time called a week. This number entered with Noah into the ark; of every clean beast, said the Lord, thou shalt take to thee by sevens. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. He went on in this way, running through all literature, ancient and modern, in the most extraordinary fashion, quoting from the Old and New Testaments, Aeschylus, Ovid, Virgil, Homer, Juvenal, Shakspeare, Donne, Milton, Spenser, Dryden, Statius, Cicero, Niebuhr, Tertullian, Aulus Gellius, Sir Thomas Brown, &c It happened that these remarks on The number seven occupied all the space that could be devoted to the subject of the article in a single number of the magazine; it also happened that arrangements had been made to publish an article by Judge Fletcher, so that it was two months before the conclusion of Sumner's essay could appear, which was headed American Law journals. It began thus: In a former number we co
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
he way of Worcester! To Henry W. Longfellow. Hancock Street, Aug. 28, 1844. my dear Henry,—You were wafted away so suddenly last evening by Macready and Felton, that I had not a moment of grace to converse with you. Do you remember that Dryden in his fables has translated several of the tales of Boccaccio? Sigismonda and Guiscardo,—Theodore and Honoria,—and Cymon and Iphigenia. Of these Wordsworth says, in a letter to Scott, I think his translations from Boccaccio are the best, at least the most poetical, of his poems. He has altered Boccaccio's names. One that is particularly admired as a noble poem, by Wordsworth, is Theodore and Honoria. You will find their character considered by Scott in his Life of Dryden. I cannot tell whether these ought to find a place in your translations. The sun shines cheerily upon my going. I depart in search of health. To this I have descended. Dr. Jackson still insists that my condition is very serious, and commends me to great car<