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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
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
en the huskiness which it had in his later years, when a certain appearance of weariness was manifest. He never got back the old magnetism after Brooks's attack upon him. There were many passages in the discourse which, I think, I could repeat now if it had never been printed, and which I remember with his look and voice as he spoke them. I have read the address many times since; and many of its rounded periods and sonorous sentences, especially the opening passage, the sentences, Lais and Phryne have fled, etc., Works, vol. i. p. 282. and indeed the whole eulogy on Allston, make me a boy again as I recall them. The admiration of Sumner's person and eloquence was not confined to his own sex, but was even greater with the other. One young lady described forty years later her impressions as she listened to him The lady's father, a Democrat of the Jackson school, and a solid citizen of Middlesex County, wrote in his journal a full description of the oration and the scene.:—
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)
poets of New England in this period are Thomas William Parsons (1819– 92), a Boston dentist who translated the Inferno admirably in terza rima and wrote poems of small merit save On a Bust of Dante, which, through its Dantesque elevation and purity of form, deserves to rank with the best American lyrics; William Wetmore Story (1819-95), of Salem, lawyer, later sculptor in Italy, his adopted home, a poet influenced by Tennyson and Browning, whose passionate Cleopatra and lofty Praxiteles and Phryne are among his most successful work; Lucy Larcom (1826-93), who spent her girlhood in the Lowell cotton mills, and whose lyrics, too often sentimental, show the influence of Whittier; Celia Thaxter (1836-94), whose father was lighthouse keeper on the Isles of Shoals, where the blended beauties and austerities of sea and rocks evoked many poems of nature in her sympathetic temperament; and J. G. Holland (1819-81), See Book III, Chap. XI. who lived in Massachusetts till 1870, when he founde
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)
Postl, Karl, 579 Potiphar papers, 114, 313 Potter, A., 434 Potter, Bishop, 136, 163 Poucha-Houmma, 591 Pound, Roscoe, 265 Poverty (Spooner), 437 Poverty (Steward), 438 Powderley, 358 Powell, J. W., 150, 157, 158, 159 Power, John Carroll, 146 Poydras, Julien, 591 Poyen, 526 Practical Christian socialism, 437 Practical economics, 439 Practical farmer, the, 430-31 Practical treatise on Labor, 438 Pragmatism, 243 n. Pratt, Lucy, 420 Praxiteles and Phryne, 38 Prayer of Twenty Millions, The, 322 Precht, V., 582 Preliminary essay to the translation of list's national system of political economy, a, 436 Prentice, 327 Prentiss, Ingram, 66 Prescott, W. H., 178, 183, 188, 190, 456, 458, 550, 598 Present age, the, 109 Present State of Virginia, 386 President's March, the, 494 Price, Thomas Randolph, 465 n. Priestley, 227 Prime, E. D. G., 136 Prime, W. C., 163 Prince, L. Bradford, 132 Prince and the Page, the, 16