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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 observers, 1763-1846 (search)
dache. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! The influence of the Notes, of their author, and of Jeffersonian ideals, is constantly met in other works of description. The allusions to Washington himself are scarcely more frequent. In 1794 Henry Wansey, an English manufacturer, breakfasted with Washington, and was struck with awe and admiration ; but about the same time, Thomas Cooper, who, in a flying visit, found land cheap and labour dear, remarks that the government is the government of the people and for the people. And when John Davis, the pedestrian, had from 1798 to 1802 entered, with equal interest, the mud-hut of the negro and the log-house of the planter, he dedicated his book to Jefferson. Isaac Weld the Irishman, author o
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)
Virginia-Centinel, the, 118 Virginia Company, 5 Virginia gazette, the, 117, 118, 120, 121 Vision of Columbus, the, 169, 170 Voltaire, 91, 110, 116, 119, 165, 188 Voyage dans la Haute Pennsylvanie, 199 Voyage en Amerique (Chateaubriand), 212 Voyage to the Moon, 320 W Waldimar, 224 Wales, Prince of (1614), 15 Walker, William, 227 Wallack, J. W., 230 Wallack, Lester, 230, 232 Waller, Edmund, 158, 159 Walsh, Robert, 208, 237 Wandering boys, 231 Wansey, Henry, 202 Ward, Nathaniel, 39-41, 154 Ware, Henry, 350 Ware, William, 324 Warren, 221 Warren, Mrs., Mercy, 217, 218, 218 n. Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians, 25 Washington, 91, 139, 140, 141, 144, 46, 168, 190, 195, 198, 202, 225, 226, 245, 258, 295 Washington and the Theatre, 216 n. Watch-tower, 18 Water-Witch, the, 300 Watson, Bishop, 91 Watteau, 111 Watts, Isaac, 70 n., 159, 160 Way of the Congregational churches Cleared, the, 37 Wayn