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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.) 49 1 Browse Search
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.) 30 2 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 21 1 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 20 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource] 18 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 17 13 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.) 16 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 15 1 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 14 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Prentice on Morgan. (search)
ir the omission to any great now. "V. " says: "I wonder why you do not admire our glorious Gen. Morgan. I thought you had more spirit than not to admire such a dashing hero." Alas it has always been the case that the loveliest of women are ever prone to admire and idolize a "dashing hero," especially if he has a strong spice of sin and the him. A bold robber chief captivates their romantic fancies sooner than a good and quiet Christian citizen, and a gloomy and desperate pirate, like Byron's Comrad, takes a deeper hold upon their hearts and imaginations than any honest commander of a steam frigate or ship of the line. If some of John Morgan's men had robbed our correspondent of her best norse, as they have robbed us of ours, and if they had exhibited a written order to burn her house, as they exhibited one to burn a house of ours, we hardly think he would be the idol of her dreams, as he now is. If Morgan had offered two hundred thousand dollars for her own or her father's he