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Skepticism
Eighteen Hundred Thirty-Eight's Farewell
Tags: "language of flowers", "pro omnibus vera", "The Garland of Flora", 1840, affection, candor, candour, chicken-heartedness, Christmas, Christmas tree, conscience, deference, diligence, disinterestedness, elevation, faults, fidelity, flowers, frankness, generosity, ghosts, girlhood, girls, gratitude, hardiness, humility, imperturbableness, irritableness, Juvenile fiction, lovingness, magnanimity, modesty, New Year's Day, New Year's eve, old women, refinement, religion, resolution, school, secrets, simplicity, Stories for Young Persons, tenderness, truth, virtue
The Deformed Boy
Tags: 1840, 4th of July, abandonment, Aeolus, Aladdin's lamp, almshouse, Apollo, benevolence, Benjamin Franklin, boyhood, charity, Christianity, Consumption, Cotton Mather, deathbed, deformity, fairy, Fortunatus' cap, funeral, gender roles, girls-work, God, gratitude, H. Gally Knight, Honesty, Independence Day, intemperance, juvenile literature, knitting, laudanum, literacy, Magnalia Christi Americana, marriage, Midas, Mothers, orphans, Ovid, philosopher's stone, poverty, prayer, Proverbs 30:24, Psalm 103, public assistance, public education, rickets, self reliance, sewing, shame, shopkeeper, sons, star-spangled banner, Stories for Young Persons, tears, virtue, widows
Modern Chivalry
Tags: 1826, A Winter's Tale, Antigua, Atlantic Souvenir, Bacchus, British colonies, Canton, Cape May, Catholic, Chesapeake Bay, China, Cowes, cross-dressing, disguise, Dolph Heilegher, Don Juan Canto II, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Elk River, England, Gravesend, Haverstraw Bay, Henry IV Part I, Hermione, Historical fiction, Hong merchants, Hudson River, indenture, Isle of Wight, John Paul Jones (1747-1792), Lord Byron, Maryland, Oliver Goldsmith, Pasha, Perdita, Philadelphia, plantation, Pope, Redwood: A Tale, Revolutionary War, Rodomontade novels, Romance novels, sailing, sailors, sentimentality, servants, Shakespeare, shipwreck, Sir Oracle, Sir Toby Blech, Sir Walter Scott, slavery, St. Kitts, Storm, tears, Thames River, The Heart of Midlothian, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Washington Irving, West Indies
Marietza
Tags: 1840, Alexandria, captives, Chios, Christians, Constantinople, daughters, Death, Egypt, Englishmen, execution, Faith, girls, Good Samaritan, Greece, Greek Independence, Greek Orthodox, hostages, Houri, infidels, Jews, Juvenile fiction, London, marriage, massacre, Mohammed, Mothers, Muslims, Oriental, Ottoman Empire, Pacha, patriots, plague, Prophet, revolution, Romaika, Roman Catholic, Scios, Sir Walter Scott, Smyrna, sons, Stories for Young Persons, Turks, war, White Lady of Avenel
Christian Charity
Tags: 1828, A Short Essay to Do Good, African American, Baptist, Benjamin Beddome, Benjamin Franklin, Boston, Calvinism, Catholic, charity, Charles Samuel Stewart, Christianity, colored, Death, girls, Irish, James 4:11, Jesus, Jews, Juvenile fiction, missionaries, orthodoxy, Park Street Church, Pharisees, prejudice, Psalm 23, religion, Samaritans, Sandwich Islands, Unitarian
Second Thoughts Best
Tags: "Address to Kilchurn Castle Upon Loch Awe", "Faust", "Principles and Prudence in Politics: The Friend", "She Was a Phantom of Delight", "The Seasons: A Hymn", 1839, 1840, 2 Corinthians 1:22, All's Well That Ends Well, Apollo, Ashby de la Zouch, bankruptcy, belle, Charles Maurice de Tallyrand, courtship, Death, Democrat, duty, El Dorado, engagement, Ephesians 1:13, factionalism, Isaiah 40:8, Ivanhoe, James Thomson (1700-1748), Jewess, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John 3:8, John Milton, letters, loco-foco, Louvre, Love, Mammon, marriage, Measure for Measure, Oliver Goldsmith, Paradise Lost, party politics, phrenology, Procrustes bed, Samuel G. Goodrich, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, speculation, sultan, tableau vivant, The Token, Tories, Whigs, widows, William Wordsworth
A Reminiscence of Federalism
Tags: "Hymn to Adversity" (1782), "Il Penseroso" (1645), 1833, 1834, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768), Acts 7.60, Angelica Catalani, anonymous publication, aristocracy, As You Like It, ballots, Beauty and the Beast, Chimborazo, clergy, coming of age, Cotton Mather, courtship, Curtius, Death, death-bed promise, Democrat, Edie Ochiltree, elections, Federalism, Gioachino Rossini, Helicon, herbalist, Increase Mather, inheritance, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jacobin, Jews, John Adams, John Cotton, John Milton, Judges 11:34, lampoons, Laurence Sterne, lawyer, letters, Love, marriage, New England, newspapers, Norton Anthology of American Literature, Paradise Lost, partisan, pseudonym, Puritans, second wives, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, sisters, Southerners, spinster, Tales and Sketches -First Series, The Age of Reason (1794), The Antiquary (1816), The Token, Thomas Gray, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Tristam Shandy, Uncle Toby, Vermont, Virgil, widowers, William Cullen Bryant
The White Scarf
Tags: 15th century, 1838, 1839, A New England Tale and Miscellanies, Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War (1407-1435), bourgeois, Charles VI of France, Count de Vaudemont, Duke of Burgundy [John the Fearless], feudalism, France, Historical fiction, Isabella of Bavaria, Italians, Italy, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Jean de Montagu, John - Duke of Berry, literacy, Louis I Duke of Orleans, lynch law, marriage, mystery play, Notre Dame, Romance, scaffold, St. Therese, The Hesperian, The Token, torture rack, Valentina Visconti (Duchess of Orleans)
Romance in Real Life
Tags: 1777, 1787, 1827, 1839, adoption, Alexander Pope, ambassador, An Essay on Man -Epistle IV, Anna Matilda, As You Like It, Auld Robin Gray, boarding school, Boston, Catskills, class, Comte de Mosloy, constancy, Count Louis-Guillaume Otto, courtship, Death, Della Crusco, disguise, Dogs, Elizabeth Livingston, engagement, France, French, Friendship, General Henry Knox, guitar, Hannah, Hannah Cowley, Hudson River, Huguenot, Hymen, I Samuel 1, inn, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Jewsharp, Lady of Loretto, Le Misanthrope, letters, Letters from an American Farmer, Lisbon, locket, Lorenzo, Love, Love’s Labour Lost, marriage, Massachusetts, Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur, Moliére, Mothers, music, New York, nobility, Normandy, Orlando, Paris, portrait painter, Providence, Revolutionary War, Robert Livingston, Robert Merry, Romance, Samuel Daniel, Saxon, Shakespeare, shipwreck, sonnets, spy, Tales and Sketches (First Series), Tauconnuc, The Complaint of Rosamund, The Garland, The Legendary, United States, Xantippes