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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 28 2 Browse Search
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
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.) 8 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.) 6 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 5 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 2 2 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 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
, with its refrain Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies. But the one ballad that shows a spark of poetry is Nathan Hale, which commemorates the capture and death of the young American spy. It opens with a promise that is scarcely sustained throughout the poem: The breezes went steadily thro the tall pines, A saying Oh! Hu-sh, a saying Oh! Hu-sh, As stilly stole by a bold legion of horse, For Hale in the bush, for Hale in the bush. Best known of the purely humorous ballads is Francis Hopkinson's Battle of the kegs (1778), which tells of the alarm felt by the British over some kegs that the Americans Hale in the bush. Best known of the purely humorous ballads is Francis Hopkinson's Battle of the kegs (1778), which tells of the alarm felt by the British over some kegs that the Americans had charged with powder and had set floating in the Delaware River. The hundreds of patriotic ballads, songs, and odes that appeared after the Revolution, though more ambitious and literary, seem less spontaneous and sincere than the earlier verse, which called a nation to arms; and for all their flaunting of the stars and stri
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)
27 Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 178, 285 Mose in California, 229 Mose in China, 229 Mourt's Relation, 19 Mowatt, Anna Ogden, 223, 229, 230 Murray, John, 249, 252, 255, 321 Murray, Mrs., Judith, 233 Murray, Lindley, 292 Muscle Seatoniance, 263 n. Musings (Dana), 240 Mystery of flowers, the, 267 n. N Nadowessiers Todtenlied, 212 Napoleon, 170, 185, 211 Narrative of surprising Conversions, 61 Narrative of the troubles with the Indians of New England, 25 Nathan Hale, 167 Nation, the, 216 n., 262 n., 289 n. Nativity, 265 Nature, 328, 334, 346, 352, 358 Neal, John, 208, 292, 307, 308, 309-310 Ned Myers, 302 Neidig, W. J., 216 n. Neighbour, 233 Neill, Rev. Edward D., 18 n. Nelson, Admiral, 246 New American magazine, the, 123 New England Courant, the, 93, 94, 112-113 New England magazine, the, 215 n. New England magazine of knowledge and pleasure, the, 122 New England weekly journal, the, 113-114 New England's cr