The Puritan
A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous In these volumes, I have attempted a di Icult task and if I Shall'be pronounced to have failed, I shall neither be grieved nor surprised. I have attempted to remember, in every page, that I am an American; and to Write to the wants and manners of just such a people as those among whom I was born. I have always blamed our' authors, for forgetting the woods, the vales, the hills and streams, the manners and minds, among which their earliest impressions were received, and their first and most innocent hours were passed. A sprig of white weed, raised in our own soil, Should be more Sweet than the marjoram of Idalian bowers; and the screaking of the night-hawk's Wings, as he' stoops in our evening sky, should make better melody in our ears than the softest warblings of a foreign nightingale. If I have sometimes verged to too much homeliness and Simplicity, my only apology is, in the language of scripture-j - I dwell among mine own people.
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