the
conflict
of
dynasties.
This
material in
nation's progress
154
BOOK
IV
LITERATURE
233
11.
The
.
knows
a hall where the flicker
of
flame
cast
the
niojht
To
this
remains
the
hope
and
so men
of
architecture
that
we
give
the
name
of
literature.
recall a
is,
the languages
fled
so
simple
and
so
frequent
is often overlooked.
wear, whom
in no others,
itself the
tradition into written
influenced
by
an
impulse
of
thing as modern English
we
final version
of the
Bible, but
Shakspere
and of
development,
be broken
name.
and
as
three generations
dis-
the centuries
themselves, the
century the
race, seetned
country had
and
mother country,
and which
her blunders. Morally
our
their
moral
varying
in actual
lan-
for
of
independent
America,
have
been
so
the
we
shall
per-
haps
our
contributions America
cern the
swollen
that
technically
royal.
the
seventeenth
century
grant
they
again
seen
that
dominant
type,
now
history.
momentary sovereignty,
the whole course
of
English
history
have
native
experience
more than
CEcumen-
theology
taught.
In
the
man,
Adam,
in
the
the
God,
without
losing
their
His justice.
penalty
of
sin,
any
acts
discover
whether
election
was
will
of
God,
hope that
harmony with the
tim s has
been its chief
wherein
only
science was still to come.
But what Augustine and Calvin
saw, in the
is
;
where the
formally
dominated
by
that
make themselves politically
impregnable Common
which the history of
our
province.
the
seventeenth
century
;
by
w^hich
group,
they
we may broadly
give, as we
for
a
him.
time
we
can
every-
where
Jonson,
John
and
care,
the
chief
dominant
figure
of
all
writing,
there
it brought to
aphorisms
of
Bacon.
It
was
excellence
French
than
to
of the
begun
Walton fairly
whose
later
years,
when
solitary
and
alone
as
Milton's
is
from
Shakspere's.
it throughout
forty years
Sir
William
Temple
and
together
involving
such
to make
Shakspere
around
spontaneity, whose enthusiasm,
seventeenth
century
that
the
spring
of
1607;
be
of
George
Sandys's
translation
of
during
fine
art.
Of
as of
any period
men of
which
centuries
before
had
made
the
The
children
to
the
fore
ties
and
have
happened
power
was
steadily
extending
itself
America is finally
planting
words
of
in the New
in the very last
of that newer empire
of the English language
promise something
Eng-
land,
imperial
the
environment
land
and
as
it
state
of
social
it
is
in
judgment
on
Salem
witchcraft.
and
change
in
was truly an
were any of their
In this
hardly
to
dering.
Such
century in New
stronger
the
constitutional
them-
as
absence
of
this.
Yet
even
importance,
these all but
whose
main
purpose
including
such
things
as
"The
Freeman's
hardly
be
denied.
In
activity of New
neglected.
half of
century^,
Elizabethan England along
and
^\
spilt,
us :
And
at great
:
The
Yet
seems
by
nature
and
by
custom
curs'd,
No
But
That
draws
not.
that of the
ministry
which
was
the
distinguishing
purpose
is
nowhere
of
his
grandfather
Cotton,
the
first
Boston.
On
his
arrival,
Increase
Mather
and
work
falls
chiefly
though
grouped.
we
have
seen
to
include
most
American
writings
be
taken
as
more
a
minister
already
eminent,
and
the
Harvard
College.
Only
believed New
To
return
then By
the
foundation
of
the
colony
and
of
this
period
Cotton
Mather
entered
w^J
was Sir
William Phips,
a devout,
vice
of
literally the
this mysterious
legally be
the ac-
spectral
prosecutions
soon
came
to
queer.
For
seems
on
the
whole
the
Boston,
a
hun-
brought to bear
only
in
forty-
many
words as we thus see to have come from the hand of
one of
the busiest
the years when
pristine
New
still go well.
work.
Its
a
sym-
might befall the
tence
sounds
the evil side
of
Josephus
had left
out of
less
unuseful
than
improper
to rip up the old
errors
St.
Paul
opposite
thereunto,
was
bound
St.
produce
name was
and
the
Enquiry
a
very
lively
Preacher;
and
one
who
Preparations
and
his Heart
into a
a
which, in
{z\n extracts
Mather
writes
of
New
England
unchanged,
not with
more
in
common
ancestors which
pressure
no more,
of their immi-
temper
had
faded
alive
was
a
hun-
1745,
that the last
there
1685
kin,
who
is
rolling
war; it now
For
though
this
tradition
has
fought
in
the
the
greatest
continents
of
both
hemispheres.
by
English
Law.
to
proof.
—
date
neous
far from
century
before.
The
contrast
may
periods may
enough
to
assure
has
before
reign
the
Eng-
by Hannah
from the
the
greatest
British
poet
of
the
people,
the
quite evident.
At the
and
Burke.
In 1600
and the versatility of
Rogers,
master of
more than
a single
spontaneous,
enthusiastic
versatility
the
in
the
surprising power of
Law.
The
to decline
rather
and he left a great
many
children.
years to
married
self in
dressed
impressed
on
object of curiosity.
orders
of
an
Old
Maid
Governess.
Judge
how
is
painted
Man
praise
of
Mail.
The
Revolution
destroyed
of
this
class.
To
conquest
of
Canada
the
English
came
Connecticut
vallev
America
Revolution is
1789.
In
1800
the
presi-
dency
of
John
Adams
was
Copley
portraits
was
to
TO
1
776
Until
1728,
of
the
country
— in other
College but
classes
of
publication
in America
of
Harvard.
Under
were
founded
in
the
middle
the American
Columbia,
of periodical pub-
A dozen
years before
use us in
of
that I could
not speak till
prepare my
mouth that
I could
there
was
joy
in
heaven
over
a
sinner
our
eighteenth-century
minis-
ters,
had
less
to
do
with
public
affairs
from
true.
observe that
he
set
forth
Calvinism
reasoned
out
as they
or other
to be
the
twenty-three
vigour
with
which
he
set
forth
the
inevitable
of that
God, whose
in
the Half
his wife.
recording
how
divine
grace
came
and
what
the
matter
was,
before
she
would
make
experience
only
by
such
shay,
A
as
past
on
January
6,
1706.
As
a
mere
boy,
he
was
apprenticed
country.
The
letters
proved
worthless
and
double
the upper
lower
half
for
reading.
In
1755
conducted
in
for eight-
of Pennsylvania.
other
institutions
which
man's
which
his
feriority
is
galling
ap-
chusetts ; for
earlier
loose in
morals. Before
people
concerning
his
the
writing
excellent,
and
wished,
if
possible,
to
making short hints
should
come
to
hand.
Then
I
compared
my
I wanted a stock
different
was
to
teach
me
method
in
or before it
Sound eighteenth-century English
 
his
earthly
accomplishment
happened that they wrought an effect on me quite con-
trary to
;
which
at
times
gave
that this
"
religion
itself
by
tend
his
a
good
preacher,
of the
George
Whitefield,
to
you
for
them
no
doubt,
gave
me
delphia. Here
hearing
psalms
"
of
which
gold.
As
learn how
abundantly
able
too
perchance there
people.
honestly
world.
Very
good:
us
nearly
into
accord
scientific
writings
and
correspondence
which
made
him
as
eminent
the daily
;
can
be
safest
wherever
chase up the Falls of
Niagara
preposterous nonsense. Though
its style is almost Addisonian, its substance is more like what
in our own
velop
in
eighteenth-century
America,
where
for
a
friends arc very
everything that tends to
is
odds
that
you
''A. Because they
marry younger, and
of the people more
glass of
t
sur-
been a
that,
however
much
our law, and our
the world.
The American
is becoming
more of
war against
an alien
invader than
as a
accept
their
ex
1856
has
"
:
a
glittering
gener-
to
tell
its
but
so
to
describe it is probably as near the truth as to accept it for
a
Not that
Jefferson, who
question. Although
no
of Eng-
land which
can loyalists must
these loyalists
the
as
ever
revolutionist
held
his.
What
to
the
mind
of
colonies,
any American
it is
were
perfectly
well
cared
for
by
members
or
so,
but
extracts
cause
as
advocate-
general
I
renounced
history,
this
petition,
being
as it is agreeable
to make hobby-horses,
asses, and slaves
this
and his
furniture. In
for the
sure that such
sides.
Professor
Tyler
shows,
more
definitely
than
has
ever
been
shown
before,
what
extraordinary
power
America. The
lowest tradesman
It
Hopkin-
son's
pilgrims, who
nature, rewarded
kinson's American
taire
the
with
England.
he
offered
his
sword
be
fighting
discussing
it,
we
did
together at heart,
introduce into
in de-
claring itself.
Queen
there had
efforts
to
ristic
verse
of
Toward the end
made
a
serious
attempt
to
establish a native literature ; and though the results of this
effort
were
be
College
of
Board of
Long
before
his
busy
the principal city
bred revolutionary
Virginia
public
tradition
would
words
of
the
poem
strayed
Amer-
ica
this
liturgy
obviously
required
England.
Certainly,
die.'
Hartford, where he
extract
Secure
from
; it is said
ran,
tide,
of latter
still
faintly
the
Continental
1787
he
published
an
epic
—
"
your empire lies,
attempt
made
United
States
While
No
safety
And
just beginning his
those
which
we
have
which was
stand for, and one
America still lacked
a
one
was
captured
by
the
British
some
than
son of a New
found
him-
The greater
part of
With
fail."
However
interesting
such
verse
Now
and
been
sits,
way,
there.
spear.
of these verses,
Are
sweeter;
therefore,
ye
bliss.
For
be
fair
be-
cause
expressed it
simply, directly,
the
; a
comparison
with
the
reached
their
highest
expression
in
the
Franklin,
have
glanced
last ten
gentleman often
England
thing
us
revolution
measure,
sovereign in
duty.
but still
of
the
nineteenth
to be sure,
regions,
the
true
many things essentially
traditions which have proved
England,
which the
our own generals in the
Civil
War
is
said
to
have
declared
that
is
language,
except
the
Elizabethan.
So
far
as
one
can
now
tell,
this
school
distinguishes
itself
from
the
comparable
with
lesser
novelists
and
story-tellers
whose
;
his time
of
aspiring poetry
the growth
of science
re-
made conscious,
party,
this
as
they
the
United
with
Spain
in
1898.
The
War
of
18
12,
South were
bred men less and
less able to understand
the native
resemblance than
deep moral
War
what they
nothing
but
growing
salient.
wealth.
These
causes
of
our
national
cause it.
cousins, to
legal
of
her
present
contemporary English
Regency
and
the
spicuous
in
the
What
has
succeeded
it
is
of
that
English
native
American
solitary
figure
; he
belonged
to
the
later
writer
and
work
alike.
Yet
New
Jersey
National
Academy
of
and
the
diffuse
pomposity
the
too,
is
as
work, being
in such
to
demonstrate
how
hopelessly
the
only
such
trivial
fiction
as
philosophical
speculations
 
obeys it
confusion
the
trick
of
a
malignant
Some such
During
a
visitation
of
physician
of
about
;
with beds
neighbour.
needed.
wealthy
persecution.
a matter
to
gener-
the
tinguish it
deeply
Elizabeth,
what
mystery
instinctive
one
literary
of native
American fiction.
a
and vi^hen
in
New York
age
of
twenty-one
he
became,
but
he
with
one
died he
probably
 
death,
1859.
Irving
country. The
perhaps get
as independent works
occa-
Irv-
York,
personal and
writing
during
the
gen-
eration
which
preceded
the
are histori-
these his-
torical facts
He
sat
one
of
the
two
hours
contending
doubts
and
opinions."
here
consider-
ing
American colonies
fun
of
him
seem
rather
an
these
formulae
was
that
which
gave
to
that
itself had migrated
He assumed that
it belonged in
in
a
spirit
which
was
of country life
the
Take
Revolution,
but comes
 
the
first.
Perhaps
of Dick-
hand, must
generally have
always
artistic conscience
can write
mastery of
manner foreshadowed
more
romantic
put
together.
In
the
remind
write
truly
one
feels,
to
write
better
established
a
lasting
we find
in the
first place
humour
past
in
begin-
to
say
even
in
tradition,
these
our
numerous
writers
to a premature
end. The years
of Perry,
certainly
became,
these prosecutions
written
after
the
year
in
which
Sir
which
training and
Cooper's
translator into
was literally
and
In
a
certain
Goldsmith.
The
resemblance
Cpoper's
the
range
highly
developed
deavoured
not
only
time in
"
trivial
are set, the
1826,
is
in
wall)
their qualities heedful,
which
could
the
savage
country
expressed
concerning
our
countrymen
views
energy
writing
just
to
see
foibles
or
memory
sea
and
a
truly
highest
positive
value.
again feel un-
enough
to
is
vigor-
ously
brave
of rough
amounts to emphasis. Cooper's temper was unaffectedly
pure ; and purity of is probably still characteristic of
American letters.
a
distinctly
later
period
are considering
opened.
long
The
reputation
complete.
names
remains
neither to
on
earth
which their peculiar
poet
; and
turning
to
the
numerous
1821,
the
year
when
Keats
to
think
him-
self,
a
poet,
a considerable personal
from
a journalist, indeed, Bryant
He
ton,
a
was,
like
the
a
member
a
trait
of
deliberate
is
capable
; but
town.
He
thought
seriously
of
going
to
Boston,
finally
removed
in
1825.
At
that
time
Brockden
lished.
At
that
something
about
it
may
these with
Bryant
came
still faintly
the
actual
work
better than
sun
She
The symbol of
before
us.
his
poetical
work
was
accomplished
at
the
beginning
concluding
summons
Who
planted
eyes to
fascinating romantic
rendering
about poetry
of
whole he most
as
cool,
and
as
dignified,
of kindling
as still
home
When
the
early
death
from
his
him
a somewhat
good work
as he
was ever
of fact, the chief
reflection
makes
him
seem
now,
pronounced
admirable
the same
literary
personages
of
"
erratic
that
;
in
New
York
son of a Revolutionary
Boston
1809,
a
little
a
from
18
15
to
1
820.
which in turn
his adopted father. In
 
temporary
reconciliation
with
Mr.
Allan
got
at West
Point, from
which in
dis-
missed.
After
that
he
Hav-
ing
thus
exhausted
his
political
usefulness,
was done
classes
of
America.
In
his
contemporaries in
he
and
Woodberry's
Fifty
or
three
which
we
may
Charles
Fenno
Hoffman.
The
disturb
the
peace
of
itself been
and eighth volumes
could
fact he
how-
—
artist,
who
in his
own art,
how
vigour-
ously
he
attacked
Poe recognised
concern the
eyes,
from the
/
the
air
Waved
the
fair
vision
to
and
fro
feels, and
If in
what professed
this
harmless
intense
ingenuity
and
unlimited
good
of
tempera-
ment
of
thoughtful
scholarly
training.
which we
have glanced
by the
next.
Poe's
individual
and
powerful
style,
to
of
of her brother, and,
victim to the terrors he
had
anticipated."
Compare
with
this
depict a
Poe's
most
The
:
conscious
insight.
At
its
noblest
and
more
characteristic
form
of
melodrama.
Poe,
auditory nerve
thus
confined
the
fantastic
sodies I
cur-
and
over again,
particularly if
so
us for the
like ; but
normal
youth
of the
more that
with germ-like
cleanness,
something
which
for
his personal life
occasion
to
recog-
nise
time of Brockden
set
forth.
"
An
with gilt roses
the
piazza,
almost
heraldically
supported
on
maple,
and
neither
in-
There are
letters. For some reason which does not
appear,
by
familiar
passage
about
Willis,
opened my
know
famous.
only
—
end
of
remained orthodox
surroundings as this, Willis,
frivolously adventurous
at
road to
school-boy
exhortation.
The
Hunt,
and
which
the favourite
handsome;
in
love
with
spite of
taste.
Before
1
83
1
George
P.
Morris,
the
New
York
a
plan
of
;
twenty-five.
His
career
there
for
really knew
how his bills were to be paid. But he somehow
got letters
little
fashionable
stay
abroad
he
from a
And
called
For
—
models
get
a
stimulant
hardly
strong
enough
sensibly
to
conspicuous
was
certainly
declining.
The
West which
which
began
in
1798
with
writings
best
examples
are
the
 
of
social
it is now
Boston has
nine-
teenth
so
enjoyed in
Boston a
similar social
in
where
rank
of
immigrant
servants
complete
stranger
to
any
other
works, and in the
sued
mar-
ried
appears,
to
probably
there.
In
most
adjacent
to
actual
;
by
majority
it, became
Lord,
the
members
nical power
gested
ity, the
the
clergy
watched
and
criticised
New
England,
then,
on
pretty
sharp
line.
The
lution
overthrew
which marked
the ancestral
Calvinists than
will
generally
ary
times.
For
at
came to
found
them-
tombstones and embroidered hatchments.
propriety which
has marked
there
before
the
Revolution.
Stuart
more
energetic
spirits
of
New
lated
the
as
renascent.
In
country.
To
England had been
the
lawver,
meeting,
lectures,
given
be
little
doubt
that
Boston
people
felt
preachers
and
lecturers
said
to
them;
and
of
speech
than
of
action,
began
the
these industries
New
that Webster
the
a
degree
of
self-possession
and
steadiness
equal
to
the
wickedness
with
which
that
no
ear
has
heard
him.
and
language.
The
words
not
coolly
weighed
the
chances
of
preserving
; nor could I regard
of this
may
be
might be the condition
not
rise !
God
be
of
the most
his
hearer,
no
marks
of
late
hours
and
anxious,
the precision
"
the Phi
"The
Circumstances
Favourable
than
forty
Suns
rise
in
their
scarcely
of
these
perils,
pursuing
their
all
and
moments
at
that
not
all
combined,
the
Union
Club
in
April,
1863,
in
the
a
steadiness
and
enjoy
the
priceless
blessings
at
stake.
were
deHvered
than
a
is
more
compact,
more
more
own
conservative
people
in
iv'Iassachusetts.
may hardly again have
traditions of
he was the
more of
sciousness
cumstances
which
of their predecessors. Trained
which in
the spirit of
and of Greece.
kind, marked
American history
our
consciousness
of
New
tradition.
distinction of
all the leading Boston
were
James
Otis,
and
Joseph
every
Bostonian
who
to
those
who
and
studied
under
Until well
still
servation
of
a
respectable
elaborately developed itself in
of
New
England
typical literary
be
publishing
town
histories
New
England
so
minutely
accessible
to
all
The
first
than
1
79
1,
At
that
germs of those
them. His
book-plate, inscribed
period of
could bring the American
public into free contact
an
American
life of
by
of
eighty
in
187
1.
About
preached at
his death,
of American
until
1847.
In
each
volume
energy in
the accumulation
his un-
tnat
of
us,
a
manner
Ticknor's, and
Jared
Sparks,
Pres-
work
first his aspirations
had captivated
the
at
its
zenith,
Irving.
Irving's
books
on
sure, who wrote
was a
was Secretary of
ever,
so
differed
in Washington.
;
He died
1856,
his
result
assertion
liberty
to
the
his
finally
resulted
v/ith
untiring
industry
good
sense
so
judicial
of
preconcep-
tion,
and
with
a
literary
—
de-
cided
with
however,
you
feel
it
so
own day.
known even
year
the
another
aspect
the
relation
of
Gibbon's
history
to
seems
very
like
field
than
was
afforded
by
their
foreign countries.
Both carefully
literature seems to
historians
oratory, and
:
—
"
his
mere
good
from
of
the
doctrine.
Whoever
will
con-
name of
crowded
dense
totally different
England, had
the
with
of dense
steadily
the
native
human
Calvinism. There was no formal
break, but in the utterances of Boston pulpits you were less
and less
was
power. He
being
whose
divine
is not
be
puzzling
sentences
children
of
face them in
conclusions
Gospels
of
Matthew,
good."
His
first
point
is
that
first
place
and
as
truly
one
effect
that
is,
emphasis. Toward the
introductory remarks
souls.
philosophical
schools
of
the
present
But we
our
own
souls
are
derived
from
conscious-
the
spring
of
our
know-
there
any
reasonable
cause
needs
encouragement;
tokens
For
its
life's
end
into
acceptance
volume
of
Winsor's
Boston was
had
nearly
all
evident
letters whom Boston
atmosphere
preserved
there
the
same
kind
Europe showed
itself destructive
at
our
decorous
scholarship,
its
disintegrant
a
refreshing
the
good
old
Boston
pulpits.
though
he
generally
con-
influence of
the
revolutionary
spirit
declared
attention
to
the
modern
literature
more deference
or experiment
A second
a
belief,
of
course,
is
inherent
in
definitely
and
unchangeably
true ?
a
normal
soul
and
less certainly but
This
spirits.
Though
very
few
educated
people
who
to
same
category
with
Plato
and
Augustine,
in
a
closely
resembled
that
talked
rather
about
Nature
and
and
spirit
gave
warrant
enough
Transcendentalism.
This
was
own
as
pre-
vented
over-
stimulated
records
enliven
her
most
characteristic
proceedings
was
a
series
of
conversations
to
where she
the
individual
has
a
natural
be
Shakspere has
when
the
periodical
was
founded,
the
stands
had
been
gathering
thought
possible.
For
all
its
ultimate
failure,
Tradition
has
remembered
about
There
before
the
world
decidedly
before
The
experi-
ment
began.
At
was
discovered
the
original
Fourier's
applied
philosophy,
form
of
freedom
as
advocated.
Nothing
of
the
kind
appeared.
However
absurd,
however
eccentric
of human
phalanxes,
commonplace.
Emerson's
career
we
in
Italy.
two eminent
Ripley,
perhaps
as
a
Unitarian
new
ranges
the
French
Revo-
lution.
In
of its
as
damnable.
To
any
honest
baen
the
celebrate
:
—
"
hostility
to
this
institution
good
all his life. This life was far from eventful. After
giving up his
long
correspondence.
In
1836
his philosophy.
Society of Harvard
own
feet
and
for
nation
through
their
dle
age
still
remember
his
figure,
To
man
who
spoke
this
word
own days,
temporaneousness almost as
itself.
the
lecture,
he
would
say that
preaching so
no more than the
beautiful
and
as
inner
light.
felt
;
equally infinite
the
only a
curved line
turn to
the shades
with news
glories
mere
symbols
of
perfect
understanding
in
thereon. If at one
England,
some
fifteen
years
have sheep.'
brought
to
the
strife
could
creative
a
trait
presence
tell
you
stars
:
"
or
prophecy
of
England
to
what
he
means
historically,
we
Church of Boston, the
won
us
must always re-
surely,
those
which,
whatever
Bronson Alcott
Born
in
1799,
which he found
town, Wolcott,
their children,
he would
that intoxication.
schools,
they
eagerly
accepted
or
In
the
midst
be
on
the
by chance issue
most
pleasantly
in
his
five years
than
others.
When
these
should
were,
the
greater
which exists between
characteristic of Bronson Alcott, who
all
decent
comfort.
1842
he
visited
himself,
so
far
as
he
at
all
He was
had a
them
to
Har-
vard
College
in
1837.
Concord.
than was
thinking
and
conduct
took,
one
evil.
Let
individuals
where he
enough
to
provide
for
leisure to
experiment
was
his
garded
his
ficialities
of
that
sympathy
regard
had no
artistically
beauti-
you
cadences of
you
have
is
generally
so
mists
rather
ing
the
seer.
egotism
was
that
of
Mr.
Jacob
Abbott's
pictures
of
of
Rollo,
But
instead
of
careers of Alcott
and
Cooper
and
Bryant
the
presartorial
simplicity
;
else's business.
pitiably
short
commons
sometimes.
Con-
a contagion,
rendering its
victims incomprehensible
rebuses
and
everything but
long as reform remains in this stage, it can hardly
im-
press
tended to
social
and
economic
which
always
depresses
me.
I
should
he was
South,
A boy,
exploded.
that this opinion
a
pretty
Age and human beings as developed into
the civilisation
"
Boston a
men.
poorer
classes
been
the
lot
Fanatical,
of
course,
he
was
absolutely
uneducated
reformer
of view.
to
be
his.
the
movement
prop-
erty
involves
deprivation
and
incidentally
results
in
grinding
hardships,
property
involves
evil.
On
should stick to it. The
Constitution of
each
man
of
business
you
have
given
a
sonal
of New
ideals.
triumph-
republics
of
San
Domingo
with his
the
Cape,
where
many
of
earlier
phases
most
ideal
eternities.
What
chiefly
in-
abolition
of
slavery.
He
was
personal
vituperation
dover,
the
he sin-
that Phillips's
asked
the
time
Boston
in
1811
age
of
made
permanent
friendships.
A
man
the
records
wrong
of
slavery.
aggrieved
Personal abuse,
challenge,
binding the
whole.
Southern
senti-
ment
But
middle half
the Revo-
offensive
as
of
of
literature
nor
within
the
forms
of
family,
was
self, had
than
domestic
days
her
the reform which she did
so
much
to
copies were sold in the United States alone ; and it
is
hardly
excessive
to
piece of
Her
plot,
sentiment aroused
membering
only
that
in
her
pubhshed in
of life
it, however,
certain
fitness
in
their
dramatic
true.
as ever
to these
men, whose
to
unpopular
has
the
prevalence
to
have
gentry the obvious
These shadows
was
tious, brave, in
many aspects heroic
only
by
report
the
things
which
they
abhorred.
the
eighteenth
cen-
tury
the force
of what
of the mother
Quakers. The first
fanatical form, which
ous, inoffensive body, neglected
sanctified
Heavenly
Father.
the light and
are God's,
so to
seeing the inner
began,
not
pure
gently,
without
religious theory,
to force;
because
the
people
have
at
the
Haverhill
Academy
himself and
rar£ly
and door,
us
beat
Shook beam and rafter as it
passed.
The cat's
"
the
afternoon,
Where
which usually
old, complex
Wing-weary with
Creaks
Huddled
along
the
one
capes
 
God
hath
choice,
Loud
address,
following
passage
is
an
example
Plymouth's rocky
gentle
Nashua
flows,
To
where
sea spray
gun
Send
peal,
"
rare
in
tempera-
in popular
collections of
verses :
before
the
Civil
men.
The
lines
these
you shall
passes,
Whittier
to
greatness.
So,
as
its
New England
may be
"Dial"
distinc-
in the
worth
memory
a
constant
ideal
of
principle,
of
duty.
Nor
to
follow
ideals
which
can
by
1832;
common-
sense.
Puri-
tans,
which the
cant of
his
the moment of
an
accident
of
date
New
exhausted. The
in 18
 
Here, to go no
further, you will find
eminent
foreign
to
collect
and
to
set
detailed
mention.
were
more
con-
New
England
literature
was
made
and
came
to
himself
socially
somewhat
and
although
his
sorrows,
its
external
circumstances
seem
throughout
Port-
land.
At
since.
them
were
J.
S.
C.
Abbott,
the
historian,
Franklin
Pierce,
who
finally
and
to the existence of a wider range of culture than
was
When his
the Romans.
It is
 
vacant.
uncertain
familiar
to
that
there
is
its established personal distinction.
to
struggle
with
unwilling
hearers
heard the
with actual
of
it.
From
eldest
time
human
unless
he
;
experienced,
of
European
civilisation.
Such
beauties
which
survive
from
an
illimitable
From dreams
against
its
goal
Dust
great sonnet on his
makes these
Compare
Now
gazed
at
the
;
of
the
difference
be-
anything of its
passionate;
and who
may
way
considerable parts
done
Bryant,
by
faithfully
followed.
Certainly,
however,
"
;
"
imagery,
there
thoughts
of
J
Sprung from a family
already distinguished, which throughout
then,
scholarship,
scholar, he
you
could
not
under-
the texts with
In
1875
Longfellow
in Cam-
the singular beauty
land.
From
distinct
ways
The fact
indicates
constant,
an-
boyishly perverse
which
a
woman
tically devoted to
day in
a
thin
dis-
freedom.
ingly
lost
and
pedantry
as
done, are
of
idiomatic
The
together
pell-
of
have put
Samuel Butler
go no
fair prospect
his
antislavery
convic-
tions
imbeds it,
of
wast never young,
in nonsense, and winds
more in those
which came
not afraid
suffices
he
who
beholds
what
a reality and
finally
itself. A born Yankee
books
humanity has
intensely human
he
per-
sense the
his
understanding
writing lies
had finally conquered
To the Calvinistic
the most
Yale, had for some years been the
Orthodox minister of
During
Dr.
occupancy,
ship
New Eng-
finally
receiving
the
degree
almost
blasphemous
dissenting
radicalism been socially
time,
the
Established
Church
pulpit.
The
very
circumstances
which
made
and
tem-
which
would
soonest
him to have been precisely the reverse.
This extreme
rarely passed
Holmes
was not
quite of
a
century,
glad
to
listen
been like
retained
popularity.
Few
lines
are
more
of
Harvard
College.
cus-
occasion
which
demanded
them.
The
occasions
most
frequent
in
their
demands,
however,
were
formal
ceremonies
And Bowdoin
;
1
In
the
Quinquennial
Catalogue
of
round,
on
fire !
occasional
poems
collected
works,
whimsical
maturity
"
his
den,
be
given
that
couplet
by
not a revival of
eight-
try a
one
for
most
characteristic
of
no
Transcendentalist
things
can
ment. So
was at last taking
impressions sink
verse
and most con-
is abhorrent
his
vermin
have any more right to judge them
than
we
have
and weasels,
discipline of
drugs,
and
for-
right
to
discuss
the
same,
express myself
and
other
godly
societies
accustomed
to
tame
thee
down
To
crouch
the
vassal
of
his
Sunday
frown
Though
his
black
broadcloth
chest,
Hears
the
same
hell-hounds
yelling
acrid
words,
worthiest
our
hate.
tlie reign of
leave the
of Holmes in
better gentleman than
;
wit
was
the
modern
Europe
between them :
lifelong
war
terribly
im-
and
the
nineteenth,
Above
what
freshness
guardedly than
;
modern
He made
of health
wilderness. In
wards
until
1846
characteristic long
at
whom
we
have
Whittier, five
than Lowell. He
literature
of
simply of
so
general
help define our
along wit a native
night
to be
forgot it
but just for a moment he had felt the impulse of
artistic
to
to
impressions
that
they
find
at
expression.
Generally
his
natural
impulse
to
old
Yankee
by
the
Embargo,
and
swiftly
perous
neighbour.
When
he
but whose
ancestral Salem
in Boston,
just when
;
land, however,
had not
time
was
of an
illimitably excellent
ing
mysteries of
death
memory,
their
agony.
together.
passionate
advocate
of
pression of
wonderful foreign
wit and
lived for nearly fifty years only
in
his
native
country,
then,
purpose.
Like
Irving
and
Poe,
kind
of
romantic
temper,
splendours
the
poems
Both Brown
lurk in the mysteries
nostrils
; but the
;
more
at
one
than
which
nothing
shall
and suffering.
born
artist,
haunting sense of ancestral sin in which his Puritan forefathers
found endless
this sense
as a
life
to
shrink
One
to be
of
his
at least
the earth.
is
more,
little
was
thought
realise that
Charles
II.,
Cotton
Mather
was
born
there.
men
of
unusual
whose
eminence
By
become
day Adams's
President
Adams
survived
the
July,
1826.
eminence
that
at
one
time
or
another
they
attained
very
Waldo
Emerson
was
us to another
contributors.
Of
those
at some
of the
occasions.
which
members
of
the
Club,
all
typical
Boston
gentlemen
known of the company,
to emi-
become
eminence. Webster was
in the Eng-
the
population
a
cluded in Mr. Morse's list
of
the
are
manufactures and local rail-
may roughly
War.
imagination
of
i860
centralised
national
power
the Civil
War
the
Pacific
—
have
change
in
of
most
characteristic
phase
;
men
ethereal moral
purity, too,
as made
of
William
and
Mary,
occupied by
has
years,
each
his
mean-
series
contribu-
tors
only
lacked
common
ideals
large
scale
Scriptures.
Beyond
make
New
Eng-
positive magnitude
national
The
of
the
nineteenth
century
the meaning of life
life
and
the simplicity of
We used
about the
the
now
were not
general
extension
of
credit
and
in
a
of
Boston
still
proportionally
when the
position
comparatively insignifi-
cant town
of Albany.
'6o's
can
hardly
the growth of
by
the
million.
What
human energy
have
things
done
amid
the
American
Review"
was
bought
by
there
to
a
peri-
odical
go on
has
our
The
visitor
the
New
York
editorial
fact
about
which
Greeley,
the
his worldly
1831.
After
various
journalistic
experiments,
recognised
as
he was
soon
December,
1878.
one's
appeared
even
while
he
was
alive
He
epigram
This
titles
which
he
has
left
us :
life, he produced the
who
seriously
love
poetry.
His
of
nowise
re-
Goethe's style,
come
Grant
White.
the bar
in turn,
edition
Josiah
Gilbert
Holland.
He
was
; and
in
1849
he
—
"
through
the
he can
to
is
do-
ing
possible that
or pen,
The saddest
are these
commonplace
1888.
Whit-
comb's
"Chronological
Outlines
of
had
extraordinary
popular
success.
They
of
and
the
stories
his
the
is hard
of our
contemporaries mo-
mentarily preserved
they contain
little which
a race
are
what
render
may
shake
to
remember.
1819,
condition.
gentlest academic
and social
outskirts of Brooklyn
was
Whittier.
The
contrast
between
Whitman
to
the
most
considerable
and
At
a school-master,
of
which
his
er-
ratic
habits
foreign
birth.
Beyond
question
i^
typical.
The
abstract
ideal
of
French
Revolutionary
excess,
ever, one of these ideals has been more strenuously kept
in
mind
from
concep-
tions
of
liberty
and
rights
as
maintained
hand,
thrashing for any
it
plain words,
of
evil.
Now,
would hardly
will
vanish
into
that
which
he
would
of
of
mouths
for
nothing.
mothers, and the offspring
docs not wait
this complete
but
rather
that
of
European.
His
democracy,
in
saving
grace
a
not
to
the
spot
ebb
Play
the old role, the role that is great or small according as
one
makes
it
or wheel
from
you !
Diverge,
fine
the
houses
none
from us,
We use
you and
which
sounds
as
if
phrase
where
another
perceptible
everywhere
?
unstinted
sym-
equality,
amorphously
meaningless,
his
words
lasting
poetry.
he sees, however,
say about
new realities
Sometimes,
caughtf
sea the cruel slaver
or have seen
we sou2;ht
daring;
For
you
my arm,
voyage
comes in with
Such
a
man,
great
or
not.
Such
men,
greater
than
critical
temper
which
makers have
dangerously
far
from
its
dreamed
of
it.
In
style
there
is
again
something
foreign
to
the
spirit
as character-r
This impulse
name
of "
Huckleberry
Finn."
"
characteristic of
America
he
side of
his
ever you
Brooklyn are
by
new
South before
their work,
the Southern
of the
doors
ernment.
The
agricultural
past
lingered
even
more
tenaciously.
A
Southern
trait
a
truth;
at
least
up
to
the
Civil
War
better
the United
neither England nor
which
of
once
which
England,
and
by
a great landed
proprietor, and that they saw the light only when he had been
nearly a century in
keep unaltered its
of the
masterpiece.
the
nineteenth
may be found in the chronological
tables which
tween
1847
and
1854,
and
its
old
traditions
most
interest-
a socially lower
certainly
love
way
superior
consider-
War,
though
the
traditional
The
immense
bulk
amid the obvious
scenes
which brought
those Southern
armies of
bed
one day
Little
steel-blue
eye.
"
minstrel
here,
I
'd
bended
knee,
The
were
debating
in
but
devoted
too,
ruined
edu-
cated,
his
temper
seems
more
traditions
and
and passion
to Stedman
It is
characteristic of
however,
and
glittering
circlet
clings
friend
glance
seem
peer,
lands,
startled spider
light
A
veil
seems
isles
Hear the
brine
Above
pile the massive ore,
each dawn
In
that
we
sometimes
hear,
Upon
the
Northern
prevents
his
work
he enlisted as
which
he
never
recovered.
After
long.
In
poetry
to
be
from its
sound quite
meaning; and
this deliberate, sincere, but
Dark
as
to
wed
eye of
wooed.
in
form
as
those
of
Timrod's
sesses
quite
as
much
be
as distinguished
of
Dr.
Ticknor,
or
has been, it
if
any
more
significant
for anything
like final
South
few
Southern
century
his
hero.
adventur-
tended
the origi-
Such
complete
relaxation
of
Something
Kirkland,
once appeared
with
these
admirably
construc-
not prosper
vagaries
of
these
new
commonwealths,
whose
inexperience
was
at
the
even
with
society
in
the
familiar
old
books
too,
was
help writing
vividly. As
have a curious
1809
social
centuries
has
still regions of which
than
colonies;
and
origin. Mr.
while
have
glanced,
a
wilderness,
and
Central
New
York
itself
a
region
are
such
things
—
may hope
mere
approaches poetry
seems mostly
of the
happened
to
glance,
these
traits
are
instantly
apparent.
Holmes,
generally pos-
once conscious
ridiculous, may
familiar example
individuals
colloquially, the
in
the
crowd.
plied their
literary
humour
to
literary
form.
Generally,
other recent phases
officer, born
1823,
who
spent
West,
their fun
came into notice
confusion
of
fact
show-
man,
only
with
typical
individuals
of
sorts
of
notable
persons,
from
these he
is on
throughout the volumes
it has emerged
in literary
yet
anywhere, it is
West, that just as
not
yet
wild
nonsense,
complicated
and
this is the tendency
can reasonably
be ex-
literary
England
has
example,
whose
certain
cases
their
descriptive
pas-
documents
national
types.
These
alike, these short
one
so
often
conscience
which
always
makes
the
—
plays
most
popular
types of
American character
could be
represented on
the stage
with great
few of the
and
indeed
have seemed
passing through expe-
expression
into being,
impatience
the
cinders
of
of our
language, so
perforce learned
phrases must
the
serious
moments
of
all
and
Americans
we have
been faithful,
than the
origin England
state
country
have
left
traces.
to the
Commonv/ealth,
commonwealth,
already
deeply
a sturdy country gentleman
America
has
steadily
disunion
had
tended
ican Revolution.
mutually
extreme iso-
of imperial
States, this
soon devel-
for
almost
a
as com-
pression which they have left with us must rest our
estimate
of
what
the
literature
of
Eng-
Eliot,
with
their
host
of
con-
of
times
English
literature,
the
rnore
in
England.
So
far
as
other
hand,
the
excited
chiefly certifies
of American
artistic duty
of
excellence.
A
few
far seems
Brownings,
with
Carlyle
of
a
generation
before.
One
and
that
human
confidently
outworn
custom.
of dense
like
that
before the death
mere
exotic
fervid.
;
remain
the
living
teachers
the chief general
chapters
on.
In
books seem
—
 
S.
R.
Gardiner's
History
of
England
from
the
Accession
of
James
Vol. I.
[George
Sandys]
being
Revolution,
Professor
Tyler's
volumes
are
the
best
by B.
and
of
general
references.
Drake
and
Halleck
general,
1849
Life
and
Letters,
period are
well depicted
of her
Thirty
Tears
Ago
(1854)
is
1879.
1851—56.
Palfrey's History
article
one-volume edition
H. Chan-
O. B. Froth-
ingham for the
O. B.
Men
Brook
by Prof.
Charles Eliot
Essays,
New
York,
1898.
With
Mr.
F.
B.
Sanborn's
the Riverside
Vol.
XL
pp.
75
ff.,
and
Dr.
side edition in
by
Mr.
John
vols.,
Boston.
Perhaps
Hingston,
London
[1869]
has pro-
preparation
this
is
also
due
to
America,
247,
253-254,
257,
258-
259,
260,
274,
292,
298,
325,
373,
483-
Dickens, Charles,
See Cooper, Dana,
equal space.
head
by
virtue
of
being false or violent,
many