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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.). You can also browse the collection for Abbey or search for Abbey in all documents.

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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
lonial time, are remarkable for their civil geniality amid rude circumstances, and for their touches of cultivated irony. Madam Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727),Ibid. in her diary written in the pauses of her horseback journeys between Boston and New York in 1704 and 1705, recorded in a most amusing manner the humours of the rough roads, the perilous crossing of rivers, the intolerable inns, and the coarse speech of the inland rustics. John Seccomb (1708-93) wrote a piece of verse called Father Abbey's will (1732) facetiously describing the estate of Matthew Abdy, sweeper, bed-maker, and bottle-washer to Harvard College. These lines found their way into The gentleman's magazine. Joseph Green, See also Book I, Chap. IX. who became well known for his puns, has left us some mischievous lines on Doctor Byles's cat (1733). The popular impression of Green is embodied in an epitaph which was written for him by one of his friends: Siste, Viator, Here lies one Whose life was whim, w
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Evolution and religion, 214, 217 Ewing. William. 55 Examiner (Richmond), 184, 296 Excelsior, 36 Express (N. Y.), 187 Eyes and ears, 215 Fable for critics, a, 246, 250 Fairy Book, the, 400 Faith Gartney's girlhood, 398 Fall of Richmond, the, 279, 285 Fall of the House of Usher, the, 68 Fanshawe, 19 Farewell to Pope, 305 Farewell to the world, 200 Farmer and the cities, the, 322 Farmer's Allminax, 157 Farmer's Museum, the, 179 Farragut, 277, 285 Father Abbey's will, 149 Faxon, F. N., 171 Federalist, the, 74, 180 Femmes Savantes, 234 Fenno, John, 180, 181, 182 Ferdinand, King, 125 Ferdinand and Isabella, 126, 128 Ferussac, Baron de, 209 Field, Eugene, 242, 243, 409 Fielding, Henry, 340 Fields, James T., 49, 167 Finch, Francis Miles, 286, 303 Finley, Martha, 398 Fish, Hamilton, 144 Fiske, John, 222 Flash, Henry Linden, 291, 298, 300, 301, 302, 306, 307, 309, 311 Flint, Timothy, 167 Florida Sunday, a, 344