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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.) 4 0 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 1: travellers and explorers, 1583-1763 (search)
a recalcitrant sinner, Whitefield would cheerfully get out of a sick bed to preach to the Free Masons, with whom I afterwards dined, and was used with the utmost civility. An elemental fondness for rhyme and rhythm was responsible for the preservation of a few records of travellings not in themselves as remarkable as the effusions for which they gave the occasion. Two of these were A Monumental memorial of A late voyage from Boston in New-England to London, Anno 1683. in a poem. By Richard Steere, and a broadside, A journal of the taking of Cape-Breton, put into metre by L. G., one of the soldiers of the expedition, in 1745. The eighteenth century brought economic independence and settled social conditions to the older English colonies. With these went the leisure and comfort which prepare a community for the conscious enjoyment of literature. These changing circumstances are reflected in the keen observations and amusing descriptions preserved by one of the sprightliest of
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)
the American poets, 265, 282 n. Spectator, 93, 112, 113, 114, I16, 117, 233, 249 Spence, Dr., 96 Spenser, II, III, I16, 155 Spinoza, 266 Spirit of laws, 119 Spiritual laws, 336 Spring, 163 Spy, the, 295, 296, 297, 309, 310, 314 Stael, Madame de, 332 Stanley, Charlotte, 286 Stansbury, Joseph, 173 Stansbury, Philip, 191 Stanton, T., 324 n. Stanzas on the emigration to America and Peopling the Western country, 212 Steele, Richard, 112, 116, 235, 238 Steere, Richard, 9 Sterling, James, 122 Sterne, 285 Sternhold, Thomas, 156 Stevenson, Marmaduke, 8 Stiles, Ezra, 91, 103 Stith, Rev., William, 26, 27 Stoddard, Solomon, 57, 61, 64 Stone, John Augustus, 221, 225, 226, 230 Stoughton, William, 48 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 231 Strahan, William, 99 Stranger, the, 219 Strictures on a pamphlet, entitled a friendly address to all Reasonable Americans, 138 Sullivan, James, 148 Summary view of the rights of British America, etc., A,