Browse Items (75 total)
The Magic Lamp
The Little Mendicants
The Good Son
The Falls of Bash-Pish, or The Eagle's Nest
Tags: "Gerusalemme Liberata", "Green River", "Monument Mountain", 1839, Antonio, Barrington, Bash Bish falls, Bash-Pish, Berkshires, Canaan Falls, Carbonari, Catholicism, Clorinda, Connecticut, Eleuterio Felice Foresti, Fridolin of Säckingen, furnaces, German, Housatonic, inns, Italian, Jahconick, journal, Kaatskills, Merchant of Venice, Mount Rhiga, Mount Washington, picturesque, Polish, Portia, Salisbury, Saxon, Schaffhausen, Seged, Shakespeare, Sheffield, Shylock, Southern Literary Messenger, Spielberg fortress, Stockbridge, Torquato Tasso, Touchstone, tourism, travel writing, William Cullen Bryant
The Elder Sister
Tags: "As You Like It", 1829, Blowzabella, Broadway, Country, dandy, daughters, Eve, fathers, filial piety, fishing flies, George Crabbe, giftbooks, June, maternal death, Romance, Rosalind, Shakespeare, Siblings, sons, Tales and Sketches - First Series, the language of flowers, The Youth's Keepsake, widowers, widows
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
The Catholic Iroquois
The Canary Family
Tags: Birds, Carter and Hendee, family, Friendship, Motherhood, Pets, The Youth's Keepsake
The Bridal Ring
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