The Cyclopedia of American Literature, by Evart A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck: A Review ...

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Baker & Godwin Book and Job Printers, 1856 - 32 pages
 

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Page 6 - John Higginson was one of the great men of New England, and incomparably the best writer, native or foreign, who lived in America during the first hundred years of her colonization.
Page 30 - We gladly admit that Mr. Dove's little volume is a tolerably full and accurate compilation of what is known to us of Andrew Marvell's history, and contains some pleasant extracts from his writings. But we must express our regret that he has been, in a trifling degree, misled, by adhering too literally to the etymology of the word
Page 5 - I am going to take a vacation." It is a poor rule that will not work both ways, and your good health will leave you choleric, and splenetic, and exhausted.
Page 13 - ... his form seemed to fill up as amply to the eye as his career and words to the mind, the full ideal of a Bishop.
Page 21 - Portfolio," and wrote occasionally for " The Aurora." The portion of " The Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence," published in 1820, were written by himself and his brother. Our author's share of this work was the composition of the first and second volumes. In 1833, he defended his favorite classical literature, as a branch of study, in the letters signed " Roberjot," directed against a plan of education proposed for the Girard College.
Page 11 - ... Carolina; Ethan Greenwood, Vermont. The several settlements of the country are related in neatly turned phrase, together with the incidents of the Revolution and the circumstances out of which it arose, followed by a graphic picture of the new constitution, and the attempt of Genet at French interference. There is much sly humor in this book, hit off in a neat quiet style.* In 1793 he published anonymously a Life of Watte, in connexion with Kippis's Life of Doddridge.
Page 9 - States; his wonderful talents as a raconteur ; the brilliancy and kindliness of his spoken wit, " which sometimes," according to his friend Ingraham, '' kept his friends in laughter and tears till they were startled from the night's enjoyment by breakfast bells;" of the ruin induced by his amiable infirmities; the epitaph for his monument, in which his young friend, John Quincy Adams, described his character; the youthful writers whom he had brought forward; or the curious fact that one of them—the...
Page 29 - exercised during twenty years a greater influence than any other individual has ever exercised upon American taste in poetry and other kinds of writing," a judgment which later critics have challenged.
Page 14 - States, and in 1824 was elected Professor of Anatomy in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, a place which he still holds.
Page 16 - He was assisted in the raising by Emerson, George W. Curtis, and other celebrities of Concord, whose presence gave the rafters an artistic flavor. Starting early in...

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