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- Tags: 1840
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
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
Matty Gore
Tags: "Despondency Corrected", 1839, 1840, bible, brothers, Buffalo, conversion, correspondence, daughters, Death, duty, Faith, farming, fathers, filial obedience, forgiveness, Frances Wright, frontier, God, housekeeping, illness, independence, lectures, letters, living in sin, Lydia Howard Sigourney, marriage, New York City, newspapers, parenthood, railroad, religion, robbery, suicide, The Religious Souvenir, William Wordsworth, women's rights
Saturday Night
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
Skepticism
The Beauty of Soninberg. A Letter from Wiesbaden.
Tags: "God Soul and World", 1840, aqueduct, artisans, As You Like It, beauty, blindness, Carisbrook lions, Dogs, donkeys, Duke of Nassau, eye-disease, Falstaff, filial piety, Frankfurt, Geisberg, Germany, Goethe, Héloïse, Isaac, Kursaal Gardens, letters, Marksburg, Mothers, New York, old maid, Old World, peasants, Rebecca, Rhine, Schwalbach, servant, Shakespeare, Soninberg, Taunus Hills, The Evergreen, Thomas Cole, tourism, Travel, wells, Wiesbaden
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