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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.) 42 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 1: old Cambridge (search)
tolerant Winthrop declared. By this and his other good deeds he so won the confidence of the leaders of the colony that when a college was to be founded, Cotton Mather tells us, Cambridge rather than any other place was fixed upon to be the seat of that happy seminary. On the wrecks of eighty unsound or blasphemous opinions thenent Oriental scholar and performed also the somewhat dubious service of preparing the New England psalm book. As originally compiled it had dissatisfied Cotton Mather, who had hoped that a little more of art was to be employed in it, and good Mr. Shepard thus ventured to criticise its original compilers, the Rev. Richard Matherthe Rev. Richard Mather of Dorchester and the Rev. Messrs. Eliot and Welde of Roxbury:-- You Roxb'ry poets, keep clear of the crime Of missing to give us very good rhyme, And you of Dorchester, your verses lengthen But with the text's own words you will them strengthen. Presidents Charles Chauncey and Urian Oakes published a few sermons — the latte
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
his wife, 176-177; editor Atlantic Monthly, 178-180; foreign minister, 181-182; his nephews, 183-184; compared with Holmes, 185-186; fertility of mind, 187-188; prose writings, 189-190; popularity in London, 191-192; later life, 193-195; death, 196. Lowell, Mrs. J. R. (Maria White), 159, 162, 176. Lowell, Percival, 94. Lowell, Rev. R. T. S., 16. Lowell, Miss, Sally, 125. Macaulay, T. B., 88. Mackenzie, Lieut. A. S., 117. Mather, Cotton, 4, 7. Mather, Pres., Increase, 7. Mather, Rev., Richard, 7. Milton, John, 90, 189. Mitchell, Dr., Weir, 82. Moore, Thomas, 91. Morse, J. T., Jr., 92, 100. Morton, Thomas, 29. Motley, J. L., 63, 68, 71, 83, 191. Newell, W. W., 150. Norton, Andrews, 14, 44, 48, 49. Norton, Prof. C. E., 16, 28, 37,44, 148, 160, 172. Nuttall, Thomas, 13. Oakes, Pres., Urian, 7. Oliver, Mrs., 151. Oliver, Lieut. Gov., 153. Oliver, Lieut., Thomas, 150, 151, 152. Page, W. H., 69. Palfrey, Rev. J. G., 16, 44, 50. Palfrey, Miss Sarah H., 16.
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: the Puritan divines, 1620-1720 (search)
of Samuel Sewall, as well as in that of Cotton Mather — a harsh and illiberal dogmatism succeeded tond generation was Increase Mather, son of Richard Mather, and father of Cotton, the most vigorous anisters must dominate the church; and Increase Mather trusted that he could dominate the ministers-s years the Old North Church was the citadel of Mather orthodoxy. His labours were enormous. Sixteepulpit in shaping public opinion, and Increase Mather was too shrewd a leader not to understand how er, the larger share fell to the lot of Cotton Mather, whose passionately distorted career remains so us. One may well hesitate to describe Cotton Mather; the man is unconceivable to one who has not rclesiastical domination the position of Cotton Mather was difficult. He was exposed to attack from found in it quite another meaning than Cotton Mather found. It was as a radical that he went backs in the village of Boston; and in 1702 Cotton Mather described his study, the hangings whereof, are[7 more...]
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)
t its one biblical paraphrase and its one effort at writing religious song was The Bay Psalm Book. To meet the need for divine songs to sing in the churches, Richard Mather, Thomas Welde, and John Eliot supervised the preparation of a new metrical version of the Psalms. The Bay Psalm Book, as it came to be called, was the first dence that Dryden was known in America before 1700, in spite of some fairly regular quatrains by Michael Wigglesworth and an occasional polished couplet by Cotton Mather and Benjamin Tompson. If they knew even Milton they perhaps saw in him only the champion of divorce and of other heresies. But there are other and obvious reasoOriginal and translated, which contains among other pieces paraphrases from the Bible, translations from Horace, and half a dozen elegies, including one on Cotton Mather and one on Jane Turell. All these are written in the heroic couplet but in a diction more natural than Pope's. That Adams knew Milton's poems is apparent in his
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)
, 148 Mason, Captain John, 24 Mason, John, 167 Mason, William, 178, 278 Masque of Alfred, the, 215 Massachusettensis, 137 Massachusetts Agents, 5 Massachusetts Circular Letter, The, 132 Massachusetts Historical Society, 20, 2 1 Massachusetts liberty song, 167 Massachusetts reports, 125 n. Massachusetts spy, 120, 121, 233 Matchless Orinda, 159 Mather, Cotton, 48, 49, 50-52, 54, 55, 91, 93, 153, 158, 161 Mather, Increase, 39, 49-50, 51, 54 Mather, Richard, 49, 156 Matthews, Albert, 120 n., 216 n. Matthews, Brander, 225 n. Matthews, Cornelius, 230 May day in town or New York in an Uproar, 219 Mayflower, 19 Mayhew, Jonathan, 78-80 Mayo, William Starbuck, 320 Mazeppa, 212 Meat out of the Eater, etc., 157 Medina, Louisa, 222, 230 Meditation on a Quart Mug, a, 95 Melanie, 280 Mellichampe, 315 Melville, Herman, 307, 309, 320-323 Memorabilia, 93 Memoirs of an American Lady, 311 Memoirs of the life of Willia
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
Sandys's Translation of the first fifteen books of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 1630-1648. John Winthrop's History of New England. 1640. The Bay Psalm book by Richard Mather, John Eliot, etc. 1640. (The first book printed in America.) 1647. Nathaniel Ward's The simple Cobbler of Agawam. 1650. Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Mm. 1664. New Amsterdam became New York. 1673-1729. Samuel Sewall's Diary. 1675. King Philip's War. 1682. Philadelphia founded by Penn. 1689. Cotton Mather's Memorable Providences 1702. Cotton Mather's Magnalia 1706. Franklin born. 1729. William Byrd's History of the dividing line. 1732. Washington bornMather's Magnalia 1706. Franklin born. 1729. William Byrd's History of the dividing line. 1732. Washington born. 1732. Franklin's Poor Richard's almanac begun. 1745. Braddock defeated. 1754. Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of the will. 1764. Otis's Rights of the British colonies. 1766. The Stamp Act repealed. 1770. The Boston Massacre. 1771. Franklin's Autobiography (incomplete). 1773. The Boston Tea-party. 1774. Firs
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
s, 232. Charlotte Temple, Mrs. Rowson's, 92, 241. Chasles, M. Philarete, 244. Chastellux, Marquis de, 54. Chatham, Lord, 44, 45. Child, Lydia Maria, 125, 126. Choate, Rufus, 112. Christabel, Coleridge's, 219. Christianus per Ignem, Mather's, 17. Christus: a Miystery, Longfellow's, 144. Clara Howard, Brown's, 70. Clarissa Harlowe, Richardson's, 251. Clemens, Samuel M. See Mark Twain. Cliff-dwellers, Fuller's, 255. Closed gate, Mrs. Moulton's, 264. Cobb, Sylvanu64. Lowell, James Russell, 50, 89, 95, 126, 133, 135, 137, 146, 152, 153, 160-166, 178, 192-197, 216, 242, 264. MacBETHeth, 279. McFingal, Trumbull's, 41. Madison, James, 38. Magazines, New England, 131-133. Alagnalia Christi Americana, Mather's, 17. Main-Travelled Roads, Garland's, 254. Malvern Hill, Battle of, 217. Marble Faun, Hawthorne's, 185. Marennes, Billaud de, 82. Marie Antoinette, 80. Mark Twain, 236, 245, 246-247. Marmion, Scott's, 37. Marshes of Glynn
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 3: the third and fourth generation (search)
ver the supposed witchcraft in Salem, Increase Mather and his son Cotton had held up the hands of thprosecutors' case is indeed burned by Increase Mather in the Harvard Yard, but the liberal party arees will sufficiently represent the age: Cotton Mather, a prodigy of learning whose eyes turn back foxponent of its many-sided life. When Cotton Mather was graduated from Harvard in 1678, in his sixakes, in fulsome Latin, as the grandson of Richard Mather and John Cotton. This atmosphere of flatt hundred and fifty books and pamphlets: Cotton Mather not less than four hundred. The Rev. John Nortrally in recent years than anything written by Mather himself. It was begun in 1673, nine years earlier than the first entry in Mather's Diary, and it ends in 1729, while Mather's closes in 1724. As England, Sewall's Diary is as far superior to Mather's as Pepys's Diary is to George Fox's Journald been. Jehovah Jireh! One pictures Cotton Mather as looking instinctively backward to the Heroi[5 more...]
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.), Book III (continued) (search)
in her girlhood and had loved so truly that Cotton Mather's Magnolia had seemed wonderful stories . . . that gnity of a newspaper or pamphlet agitation. Cotton Mather has left us the petition which John Eliot offered re paid after his death by one of his pupils, Cotton Mather. With better motive perhaps than metre he thus recls of the schooling of his children. After hearing Mather's funeral oration upon Cheever, Sewall made in thisin the dust. At the close of the century Cotton Mather in his Magnalia gave an elaborate history of the cof a monstrous accretion like the learning of Cotton Mather, See Book I, Chap. III. a leviathan of the seven America occurs in an entry in the diary of Cotton Mather for 27 September, 1713: I am informed, that the brought from England by the colonists, but probably Mather's foolish songs and ballads did not refer to these in 1675), had published an engraved portrait of Richard Mather. In the same town in 1731 appeared what is reg
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.), Index (search)
eau, Harriet, 228 n., 406 Martin Eden, 94 Martini, 450 Martyr, Justin, 466 Martyr Book, 536 Marvellous country, the, 132 Marvin, W. T., 264 Maryland, 497 Marzio's Crucifix, 88 Mason, Lowell, 495, 499, 500 Mason, Walt, 498 Masque of judgment, the, 63 Masquerier, L., 438 Massachusetts, its historians and history, 198 Massacre of Cheyenne Indians, 148 Masses, 333 Masters, Edgar Lee, 65, 76, 615 Mater, 277 Mather, Cotton, 73, 389, 390, 392, 444 Mather, Richard, 534 Mathew Carey, 547 n. Matthews, Brander, 7, 17, 129, 269, 272, 273-4, 274 n., 290, 419 Matthews, Washington, 633 Maum Guinea, 71 Maupassant, 606 Max Adeler. See Clark, Charles Heber Maxwell, 244 Mayflower, the, 70 Mayo, Margaret, 295 Mayo-Smith, R., 442 Mead, Elinor G., 77 Meaning of education, 423 Meaning of truth, the, 249 Mechanics' free press, the, 436 Mechanics' mirror, 437 Medea, 465 Medill, Joseph, 323, 327 Meek, Joe, 153 Meeke
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