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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 0 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.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
ms put forth in behalf of extremely early, discoverers, there are unquestioned historical records of America for the space of over 500 years. It was undoubtedly discovered by Northern navigators early in the eleventh century, and the colony of the son of a Welsh prince. Madoc (q. v.) probably landed on the North American continent about the year 1170. There is no evidence that the Northmen saw more than the coasts of Labrador and New England--possibly Newfoundland; and the landing-place of Madoc is wholly conjectural. On Oct. 11, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered one of the Bahama Islands, east of Florida. but not the continent. In the summer of 1498 Sebastian Cabot (commissioned by King Henry VII. of England), who sailed from Bristol in May with two caravels, discovered the North American continent at Labrador. He was seeking a northwest passage to Cathay. and, being barred from the Polar Sea by pack-ice, sailed southward, discovered Labrador, and possibly went along the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Madoc. (search)
Madoc. Welsh records and traditions declare that Madoc, a son of Owen Gwynneth, Prince of North Wales, disgusted with the domestic contentions about the rightful successor of his father, went on a voyage of discovery, with well-manned ships and many followers, about the year 1170; that he sailed westward from Ireland and disMadoc, a son of Owen Gwynneth, Prince of North Wales, disgusted with the domestic contentions about the rightful successor of his father, went on a voyage of discovery, with well-manned ships and many followers, about the year 1170; that he sailed westward from Ireland and discovered a fruitful country; that, returning, he fitted out a squadron of ten vessels and filled them with a colony of men, women, and children of his country, and with these sailed for the fair land he had found. The expedition was never heard of afterwards. Travellers in the Mississippi Valley and westward of it assert that the ry that the light-colored Indians of our continent have a mixture of Welsh blood, as they have of Welsh language. Until the translation of the Icelandic chronicles, the Welsh historians claimed for their countrymen the honor of being the discoverers and first European settlers of America. Southey made Madoc the subject of a poem.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
aelings) somewhere near Boston,......1004 His companions return to Greenland......1005 Thorfinn Karlsefne sails with three ships and 160 persons (five of them young married women) from Greenland to establish a colony......1007 [Landing in Rhode Island, he remains in Vinland three years, where he has a son, Snorri, ancestor of Albert Thorwaldsen, the Danish sculptor.] Icelandic manuscripts mention a bishop in Vinland in 1121, and other voyages there in 1125, 1135 and......1147 Madoc, Prince of Wales, according to tradition, sails westward, and reports the discovery of a pleasant country. ......1170 [The tradition is further that he returns to this western country with ten ships, but is never heard of again.] [The fullest relation of these discoveries is the Codex Flatoiensis, written 1387-95, now preserved in the royal library at Copenhagen, found in a monastery on the island of Flato, on the western coast of Iceland.] Eskimos appear in Greenland......1349 P
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)
rver. Thanatopsis, the lines To a waterfowl, and The Prairies alike reveal the spirit of inland discovery. The relation of English poets to American observers is most significant of all. Coleridge praises Cartwright, Heame, and Bartram; the impression which Bartram had left on his mind, says his grandson, was deep and lasting. Lamb is enamoured of pious John Woolman, and eventually favours Crevecoeur, yielding to Hazlitt's recommendation. Southey commends Dwight, and employs Bartram in Madoc. In Mazeppa, Byron, an inveterate reader of travels, takes the notion of an audible aurora borealis from Heame. But the most striking instance is Wordsworth. Commonly supposed to have refrained from describing what he had not seen with the bodily eye, and to have read little save his own poetry, he was in fact a systematic student in the field of travel and observation, for the ends of poetical composition. Accordingly, he writes to Archdeacon Wrangham, perhaps in 181I: You inquire about
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)
, 261, 262, 273, 355 Looking Glass for the times, a, 151 Love in 1876, 226 Lowell, James Russell, 241, 244, 249, 261, 268, 270, 276, 279, 282, 341, 344 Lucretius, 269 Lycidas, 274 Lyell, Sir, Charles, 186, 207 Lyon, Richard, 156 Lyrical ballads, 183, 262, 262 n. Lytton, Lord, 243 M McDonough, Thomas, 222 McFingal, 139, 171-173, 182 McKinnon, John D., 163 McLane, Louis, 250 MacDonald, W., 125 n., 130 n., 134 n., 141 n. Madison, 146, 148, 149, 170 Madoc, 212 Magnalia, 51 Malebranche, 58 Mallet, David, 215 Man at home, the, 290 Mandeville, Bernard, 91 Mandeville, 292 Manners of the times, the, 175 Manual of American literature, a, 324 n. Map of Virginia, etc., A, 16 Marco Bozzaris, 282 Mardi, 321 Margaret, 324 Maria's grave, 177 Marion, Francis, 225, 315, 316 Marion, 220 Markoe, Peter, 175 Marks of a work of the true spirit, 62 Marmion, 220, 224, 261 Marryat, Captain, 207 Martin, Luther, 147, 148
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XXVI (search)
is constantly happening. Emerson, visiting Landor in 1847, wrote in his diary, He pestered me with Southey—but who is Southey? Now, Southey had tasted fame more promptly than his greater contemporaries, and liked the taste so well that he held his own poems far superior to those of Wordsworth, and wrote of them, With Virgil, with Tasso, with Homer, there are fair grounds of comparison. Then followed a period during which the long shades of oblivion seemed to have closed over the author of Madoc and Kehama. Behold! in 1886 the Pall Mall Gazette, revising through the best critics Sir James Lubbock's Hundred Best Books, dethrones Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Lamb, and Landor; omits them all, and reinstates the forgotten Southey once more. Is this the final award of fate? No: it is simply the inevitable swing of the pendulum. Southey, it would seem, is to have two innings; perhaps one day it will yet be Hayley's turn. Would it please you very much, asks Warrington of Pendennis, t
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
e between one or two members of the Alabama Regiment and a member or two of the Norfolk Junior Volunteers, several days ago. No weapons were used. Hughes, it seems, succeeded in knocking down Adams and then with the heel mashed his head frightfully, causing instant death. After an inquest over the body yesterday, it was escorted to the depot of the Norfolk and Petersburg Road, by the Mobile Rifles, followed by Mayor Lamb and a few of our prominent citizens, and sent on to his relatives and friends in Mobile. Hughes has been arrested and incarcerated to await his trial. Considerable firing was heard yesterday evening in the direction of Newport News, and many surmise that another battle has been fought on the peninsula; if so, the Yankees have, doubtless, again met with their Bethel fate. To-day has been appointed by our worthy Mayor, and is being generally observed, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to God for His manifest Divine assistance in our late battle. Madoc.
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Americans in Paris. (search)
t know nothing about the cause or result of it. The farmers of the surrounding counties speak in most encouraging terms of their fine crops, and many of them say they intend, if the war continues, to give gratis all they make, above their family support, to the soldiers. With such patriotic providers, and such cheering prospects of good crops, what a task Lincoln will have to starve us out! But it seems that "Dr." Winfieldum Scott can't bear to see the poor, half famished "rebels" starve to death, if "Dr." Lincoln can; for just see the provisions he gave us at Manassas, to feed our hungry troops, and the guns he gave us to kill squirrels, birds and other game to eat; besides, see theliot of medicines he gave us for our sick soldiers, and the many cannon to celebrate the 21st of July. Now, while I write I hear heavy firing down below, in the direction of Sewell's Point, but am unable to learn the cause of it; probably the great Sawyer gun is at work again. Madoc.