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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,606 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.) 416 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 260 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 254 0 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 230 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 218 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 1: old Cambridge (search)
rmed also the somewhat dubious service of preparing the New England psalm book. As originally compiled it had dissatisfied meteries never seem to me very aweinspiring; but the old New England graveyards, especially in college towns, impressed on th, whose works on botany and ornithology were pioneers in New England. These books we read, on the very ground which had prode same path. The Rev. John G. Palfrey, the historian of New England, bequeathed similar tastes to his children, both of his the period know that the speech of educated families in New England at that time resembled essentially — perhaps more closel, not of peasants,--for there was no such class,--but of New England farmers, and consequently of their sons who came to the a repressed minority,--a sort of submerged stratum,--in New England ever since the days of Morton of Merry Mount. It has f death he writes: What a calamity! A singular woman for New England to produce; original and somewhat self-willed, but full
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 2: old Cambridge in three literary epochs (search)
Chapter 2: old Cambridge in three literary epochs The literary epochs of New England may be said to have been three: the first issue of the North American Review (1815), that of the Dial (1840), and that of the Atlantic Monthly (1857). Duringiterature except in a little book so excellently done that it should prove a classic,--A summer Cruise on the Coast of New England. One of the controlling influences in the North American, and in all the Cambridge life of that period, was a man w post mediam noctem visus quum somnia vera, and forbade the perversion. ... Is everything so sterile and pygmy here in New England, that we must all, writers and readers, be forever replenishing ourselves with the mighty wonders of the Old World? 1891): It was the project of a young enthusiast [Mr. Underwood himself], who desired to enlist the leading authors of New England in the crusade against slavery, and it had been the subject of conferences at intervals with Lowell, Longfellow, and M
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 3: Holmes (search)
lecturing before the popular lyceums then so much in vogue. He did not go to distant parts of the country, but was in New England one of the most unfailingly popular among lecturers. He met, however, this obstacle in lecturing, as sometimes in libreakfast table, as being a work of irreligious tendency; yet its author's criticisms on the then established faith of New England were from the point of view of human sympathy and not of technical theology. He did not wish, in his own words, to suls, all turned in different degrees. The first of these, Elsie Venner, achieved a permanent fame both as a picture of New England life and as a scientific study. How widely either has achieved that popular recognition which is so poor a test of literary work cannot now be told. It is known that in one country town of New England, the local bookseller, on being asked if he had any of Dr. Holmes's novels, replied that he had never heard of him or them, but that Mrs. Mary Jane Holmes had writt
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
to change his professorship to a tutorship. It was a change suggested only because of their want of funds, but he emphasized his refusal. It is interesting to know that he wrote to Carey and Lea, the Philadelphia publishers, giving a list of New England sketches which he had planned, but only one of which ever appeared, including studies of the Indians, of the White Mountains, and of Acadie. His mind thus seems to have worked curiously in line with Hawthorne as to themes; and this, like hisame Professor in Bowdoin College. He still wrote, If ever I publish a volume of poetry it will be many years first --it being actually nine. He published text-books and wrote Outre-Mer, the first sketches for which originally appeared in the New England Magazine. In 1831 he was married to the daughter of the Hon. Barrett Potter of Portland, Mary Storer Potter. She came of a family noted for a beauty which is prolonged into the present generation, and even the inadequate portrait of her, whi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
w of houses that Lowell walked daily or rode on his little pony to the village post-office; and it was not possible that a child of naturally imaginative turn should escape their influence. It was too soon after the American Revolution — then only fifty years removed — for him to feel any cordial sympathy or envy for the period of hair powder and snuffboxes; but the boy who was already immersing himself in the traditions of English poetry, had the actual form of the British occupation of New England vividly before his eyes. Lowell may have also found, in the garrets of his father's House, such memorials of the confiscation of the estate as in the following account, kept at the height of the great Revolution-- the estate of Thomas Oliver, late of Cambridge, Absentee, to the Committee of correspondence of the town, for the year 1776: Dr. For taking into possession and leasing out said estate£ 2 Also for supporting a negro man belonging to said estate£3.12 For collecting the <