Colonial Days & DamesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1894 - 248 pages |
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Page 101
... poems as “ The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in Amer- ica , " but who is dearer to us as our first poetess , singing like a lark in the chill New England morn . Her verses we may not care to read now ; although they are char- acterized by ...
... poems as “ The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in Amer- ica , " but who is dearer to us as our first poetess , singing like a lark in the chill New England morn . Her verses we may not care to read now ; although they are char- acterized by ...
Page 102
... poems should have been upon " A Fit of Sickness , " nor that it should have been followed a few months later by a joyous outburst of song upon the approach of spring : " As spring the winter doth succeed , And leaves the naked trees doe ...
... poems should have been upon " A Fit of Sickness , " nor that it should have been followed a few months later by a joyous outburst of song upon the approach of spring : " As spring the winter doth succeed , And leaves the naked trees doe ...
Page 107
... does in " Con- * For some incidents in Mrs. Bradstreet's life we are indebted to Helen Campbell's charming study of " Anne Bradstreet and Her Times . " templations , " and in her few domestic poems , A GROUP OF EARLY POETESSES . 107.
... does in " Con- * For some incidents in Mrs. Bradstreet's life we are indebted to Helen Campbell's charming study of " Anne Bradstreet and Her Times . " templations , " and in her few domestic poems , A GROUP OF EARLY POETESSES . 107.
Page 108
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. templations , " and in her few domestic poems , she reveals a much finer literary quality , besides giving the reader a glimpse of her tender nature and passionate woman's heart . During one of Governor ...
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. templations , " and in her few domestic poems , she reveals a much finer literary quality , besides giving the reader a glimpse of her tender nature and passionate woman's heart . During one of Governor ...
Page 109
... poems , in which she describes her children as " eight birds hatcht in one nest , " is suggestive of Chaucer in its quaint simplicity and in the writer's skilful handling of homely details . This poem was written some years after the ...
... poems , in which she describes her children as " eight birds hatcht in one nest , " is suggestive of Chaucer in its quaint simplicity and in the writer's skilful handling of homely details . This poem was written some years after the ...
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Page 129 - I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Page 48 - We had for our chaplain a zealous Presbyterian minister, Mr. Beatty, who complained to me that the men did not generally attend his prayers and exhortations. When they enlisted, they were promised, besides pay and provisions, a gill of rum a day, which was punctually served out to them, half in the morning, and the other half in the evening ; and I observed they were as punctual in attending to receive it, upon which I said to Mr.
Page 161 - But as that's only adding fuel to fire, it makes me the more uneasy, for by often, and unavoidably, being in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty; whereas, was I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure eliviate my sorrows, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in the grave of oblivion...
Page 38 - Chest by the bed side, and setting up, fell to my old way of composing my Resentments, in the following manner: I ask thy Aid, O Potent Rum! To Charm these wrangling Topers Dum. Thou hast their Giddy Brains possest-- The man confounded with the Beast- And I, poor I, can get no rest. Intoxicate them with thy fumes: O still their Tongues till morning comes!
Page 40 - Coullers as were their pendants in their ears, which You should see very old women wear as well as Young. They have Vendues very frequently and make their Earnings very well by them for they treat with good Liquor Liberally, and the Customers Drink as Liberally and Generally pay for't as well, by paying for that which they Bid up Briskly for, after the sack has gone plentifully about, tho' sometimes good penny worths are got there.
Page 165 - Lear & the two Children, we visited the old position of Fort Washington and afterwards dined on a dinner provided by Mr Mariner at the House lately Col° Roger Morris,1 but confiscated and in the occupation of a common Farmer.
Page 40 - Burroughs cary'd his spouse and Daughter and myself out to one Madame Dowes, a Gentlewoman that lived at a farm House, who gave us a handsome Entertainment of five or six Dishes and choice Beer and metheglin, Cyder, &c.
Page 85 - Amongst other favorite animals that cheered this lady's solitude, a brace of tame deer ran familiarly about the house, and one of them came to stare at me as a stranger. But unluckily spying his own figure in the glass, he made a spring over the tea table that stood under it and shattered the glass to pieces, and falling back upon the tea table, made a terrible fracas among the china.
Page 114 - I was your father confessor, and as though you had committed a crime, great in itself, yet of the venial class. You have reason good, for I find myself strangely disposed to be a very indulgent ghostly adviser on this occasion, and, notwithstanding you are the most offending soul alive...
Page 170 - ... (This was so called from the figure of an ape or monkey, which was carved in oolido at the extremity of the handle. It differed from a common spoon in having a circular and very shallow bowl.) " At the manor these ceremonies were all repeated, another pipe of wine was spiced, and, besides the same presents to the bearers, a pair of black gloves and a handkerchief were given to each of the tenants. The whole expense was said to amount to £500.