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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 207 1 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.) 42 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 32 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 14 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 10 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 6 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 4 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.) 4 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period (search)
rm, with an introduction by Franklin, and had an astonishing popularity, not only in America, but in England, Ireland, and France. They were highly praised by such foreign critics as Voltaire and Burke, and their author was idolized at home until, as the Revolution approached, the public grew impatient of his temperate policy. He wished for constitutional liberty; they demanded independence. Thereafter probably the most influential pieces of Revolutionary prose, outside of documents, were Paine's Common sense, Hopkinson's The Battle of the Kegs, and Franklin's Examination relative to the Repeal of the Stamp Act. The title is, in full, The examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin, in the British house of Commons, relative to the Repeal of the American Stamp Act, in 1766. First published in London, 1767. Such writing as this had greater flexibility, and therefore a more promising literary quality, than those pamphlets which Lord Chatham admired. The long series of volumes bea
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
was then literary critic for the New York Tribune; went to Italy and married the Marquis of Ossoli, and was actively interested in the Italian struggle for independence in 1849. She had a remarkable personality and a natural talent for literature. Some of her published works are A summer on the Lakes (1843); Woman in the nineteenth century (1844); and Papers on literature and art (1846). She died, by shipwreck, with her husband and child, off Fire Island Beach, N. Y., July 16, 1850. Paine, Thomas Born in Thetford, Norfolk Co., England, Jan. 29, 1737. He was an exciseman, and having been dismissed from the excise service, emigrated in 1775 to America, where his literary ability brought him the position of editor of the Pennsylvania magazine. He published Comn- Mon sense in 1776; the first number of his Crisis appeared in 1776 ; the Rights of Mlan (1791) and the Age of reason (1794-95). Later, he became a French citizen, was imprisoned, released, and returned to America. Died
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
orn. 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. First Continental Congress. 1775. Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill. 1775. John Trumbull's McFingal (Canto 1). 1776. Declaration of Independence. 1776. Thomas Paine's Common sense. 1776. Boston evacuated by the British. 1777. Surrender of Burgoyne. 1779. Hopkinson's Battle of the Kegs. 1781. Surrender of Cornwallis. 1782. Independence of America acknowledged by England. 1787. The Federal Constitution framed. 1789. Washington inaugurated. 1790. Mrs. Rowson's Charlotte Temple. 1795. Philip Freneau's New poems. 1798. Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland. 1801. Brown's Edgar Huntley, Clara Howard, and Jane Talbot. 1803. Lo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
., 262. Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 43. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 35, 46, 66, 68, 69, 211, 219, 258. Coleridge, Sara, 142. Collins, Wilkie, 208. Columbus, Irving's Life of, 87, 119. Commemoration Ode, Lowell's, 225, 264. Common sense, Paine's, 55. Concord, Battle of, 41. Congress, Continental, 49. Congress, General, 45, 79. Conspiracy of Pontiac, extract from Parkman's, 121. Constitution, Federal, 51, 52. Contemplations, Anne Bradstreet's, 12. Conversation of ge Odyssey, Bryant's, 104. Old Manse, 184. Old Sergeant, Willson's, 264. Oratory, printed, 41-45. Ormond, Brown's, 70. Orpheus C. Kerr, 243. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 179, 180, 232. Outre-Mer, Longfellow's, 140. Ovid, 8. Paine, Thomas, 54, 55. Palfrey, John Gorham, 117. Paracelsus, Browning's, 262. Paradise lost, Milton's, 15. Parker, Theodore, 176, 178, 179, 233, 270. Parkman, Francis, 98, 118-121. Peter, 239. Parton, James, 119. Pater, Walter, 166. Pathfin