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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 16: Webster (search)
nd softly flows The freezing Tanais through a waste of snows. Choate wrote wrong on the slip and then: Lo! where Maeotis sleeps and hardly flows The freezing Tanais through a waste of snows. Webster wrote right against his version and offered a bet. The volume of Pope containing The Dunciad was sent for, and it appeared that Choate was right. Webster wrote the words Spurious Edition on the book, and the consultation between the two great lawyers ended. The fact, however, that in Johnson's phrase he had literature and loved it, although it tells us of the man, would not give him a place in literary history. Yet he has that place and his right to it rests and must rest upon his speeches, for speeches and addresses are all that Webster has left to us to prove his literary quality, and it very rarely happens that a literary reputation can be based upon speeches actually spoken and delivered. The reason for this rarity of speeches which give a title to a place in literature
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)
iterary career. Blair's Rhetoric, Lindley Murray, the introductory chapter of Johnson's Dictionary were studied as though the student were a small schoolboy insteadn to Mexico, in which he showed good judgment. The unexpected elevation of Andrew Johnson to the presidency in 1865 brought a new element to be reckoned with. It chanced that, just at a moment when Johnson was feeling very sore about the defection of Republicans from his support, a letter came to him from Paris accusing variousave taken no notice of a resignation offered under a momentary smart, but when Johnson said Let him go, Seward did not try to stay his hand. According to the story , confidant of Jackson, David Ross Locke's Petroleum V. Nasby, confidant of Andrew Johnson. He was the first in America, as Finley Peter Dunne, with his Mr. Dooley, f Deekin Pogram. After the war he received a commission as postmaster from Andrew Johnson. Nasby is a type of the backwoods preacher, reformer, workingman, postmast
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 22: divines and moralists, 1783-1860 (search)
expository effects unspoiled. His narrative of the Saratoga campaign is solid historical writing; but alas, hard at its heels follows the judgment that Saratoga was more important than Marathon. In description, in narrative, in its dry controversial humour, Dwight's style is a sound eighteenth-century style, very serviceable in conveying his keen judgments upon statecraft and college management; an administrator's style, clean in structure, sharp and low-toned in diction, modelled upon Johnson and Burke, but with an occasional richer rhythm. The bloom of immortality, already deeply faded, now withered away. The apostle Eliot, when he died, undoubtedly went to receive the benedictions of multitudes, who, but for him, had finally perished. Sometimes there are short passages of a sober eloquence not unlike Edwards's own. Of the congregation to whom Dr. Swift had been a faithful pastor Dwight observes: Many of them will probably remember him with gratitude throughout eternity. Bu
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 23: writers of familiar verse (search)
r, whereas in the Autocrat the characters have been created that they might listen. Yet in so far as the Autocrat has a model, this is plainly enough the eighteenth-century essay, invented by Steele, improved by Addison, clumsily attempted by Johnson, and lightly varied by Goldsmith. Steele is the originator of the form, since the earlier essay of Montaigne and of Bacon makes no use of dialogue; it has only one interlocutor, the essayist himself, recording only his own feelings, his own opiiliar verse, the lyric commingled of humour and pathos, brief and brilliant and buoyant, seemingly unaffected and unpremeditated, and yet— if we may judge by the infrequency of supreme success—undeniably difficult, despite its apparent ease. Dr. Johnson, who was himself quite incapable of it, too heavy footed to achieve its lightness, too polysyllabic to attain its vernacular terseness, was yet shrewd enough to see that it is less difficult to write a volume of lines, swelled with epithet
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 6: the short story (search)
tion peculiar to later literature, is an axiom that must precede every discussion of it. It is as old as the race; it has cropped out abundantly in every literature and every period. That it has taken widely differing forms during its long history is also axiomatic. Every generation and every race has had its own ideals in the matter, has set its own fashions. One needs remember only The Book of Ruth, The thousand and one nights, the Elizabethan novella, the Sir Roger de Coverley papers, Johnson's Rambler, Hannah More's moral tales, and the morbid romance of the early nineteenth-century annuals. The modem short story is only the latest fashion in story telling—short fiction à la mode. In America the evolution of the form may be traced through at least four stages. It began with the eighteenth-century tale of the Hannah More type, colourless, formless, undramatic, subservient, to use a contemporary phrase, only to the interest of virtue—a form peculiarly adapted to flourish 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.), Index (search)
Diadem, the, 174 Dial, the, 20, 165, 166 Dialect notes, 365 Dialogue between a Semi-Calvinist and a Calvinist, 199 Diamond Lens, the, 373 Diaz, Bernal, 128 Dickens, 63, 100, 148, 152, 153, 232, 371, 378, 380, 384 Dictionary (Johnson), 124 Diogenes (Greek dog-sage), 14 Diplomatic correspondence of the Revolution (Sparks), 119 Dirge (Boker), 278 Dirge for a soldier, 278, 281 Dirge for McPherson, a, 284 Dirge for one who fell in battle, 280 Discourse (Warah Orne, 382-383, 364, 390, 402 Jolly old pedagogue, 242 John Brown's body, 279, 285 John Burns of Gettysburg, 284 John Endicott, 39 John of Barneveld, 145, 146 John Phoenix. See Derby, G. H. Johns Hopkins University, 338 Johnson, Andrew, 143, 144, 151, 157 Johnson, Judge S. E., 264 Johnson, Dr., Samuel, 38, 94, 124, 203, 234, 239, 367 Johnston, Albert Sidney, 306 Joseph E., 306 Joseph E., Richard Malcolm, 316, 318, 320, 347, 365, 379, 389 Jonas books, 400