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Search : As of 1860, there were no American cities with a population that exceeded
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Robert Southey

  • Date: After 1847; February 1851; September 25, 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

Coleridge, Lloyd, and Lovell were those who were his first intellectual associates; after a time, Wordsworth

, Lamb, and Cottle were added.

All these were men of a peculiar stamp, some of the highest powers.

fitted for emigration to a new world than they were.

Both Lloyd and Lovell were singular beings.

Annotations Text:

Clipping on final page appeared in Scientific American, 25 September 1847; here it is pasted on a February

1851 essay on Robert Southey from the American Whig Review.

Books Lately Issued

  • Date: 22 July 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

'Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or the war of independence, a history of the Anglo-Americans, from

Lossing (1813–1891) was a popular American historian and illustrator. published by Edward Walker, 114

volume, among other merits, is the most appropriate gift of which we know, for presentation to an American

And it is one which should be studied well and often by every American youth.

Our American reprint is brought out in good style.

Annotations Text:

Lossing (1813–1891) was a popular American historian and illustrator.; The illustrator was the French

Some Thoughts about This Matter of the Washington Monument

  • Date: 18 October 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Such enthusiasm was hardly needed to prove how spontaneously the hearts of the American people respond

1833 the New York Washington Monument Association was incorporated to erect a monument in New York city

In a late visit to the American institute fair, Since 1829 the American Institute held a big fair annually

See Landy, "The Washington Monument Project in New York," 291–97. and were assured by an old gentleman

If it is, it will be a disgrace and a laughing–stock to the whole city and state. . . . . . . .

Annotations Text:

1833 the New York Washington Monument Association was incorporated to erect a monument in New York city

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 29, no. 4 (December 1969): 291–97.; Since 1829 the American

Local Intelligence: &c.

  • Date: 18 November 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The three to which we allude were on exhibition last spring at the Louvre in Paris, where they attracted

landscape painter who is best known for his poetic evocations of American scenery.

Were there no other picture in the room this must prove attractive to people of taste.

He sprang from the bed, and succeeded in smothering the flames which were prevented from spreading by

Some arguments were heard yesterday; but the business has scarcely commenced. CHARTER CONVENTION.

Annotations Text:

achieved international fame with his full-length marble sculpture of the Greek Slave which toured American

cities to great acclaim beginning in 1847; Régis François Gignoux (1814-1882) was a French-born landscape

1791-1856), who lived for periods in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York, was a largely self-trained American

landscape painter who is best known for his poetic evocations of American scenery.

Local Intelligence: &c.

  • Date: 6 November 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

returned from the coast, and reported that the Liberia colonists had declared their independence and were

Thomas Doughty (1791-1856) was a largely self-trained American landscape painter who lived for periods

in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York and is best known for his poetic evocations of American scenery

Gray, of this city, Lowell Mason, of Boston, Prof.

The following officers were then unanimously elected for the ensuing year: Captain —WILLIAM H.

Annotations Text:

.; Thomas Doughty (1791-1856) was a largely self-trained American landscape painter who lived for periods

in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York and is best known for his poetic evocations of American scenery

["The new Juvenile Drawing Book"]

  • Date: 29 September 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We have noticed in several of the public schools of this city, that drawing is among the studies pursued

Many drawing books of the period were part of a larger democratic effort to cultivate the taste of the

Marzio, The Art Crusade: An Analysis of American Drawing Manuals, 1820–1860 (Washington: Smithsonian

Annotations Text:

.; Many drawing books of the period were part of a larger democratic effort to cultivate the taste of

Marzio, The Art Crusade: An Analysis of American Drawing Manuals, 1820–1860 (Washington: Smithsonian

New publications

  • Date: 8 November 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

His drawing cards were part of a national effort to teach drawing as a skill in the schools while also

'The American citizen; his true position, character, and duties' : by Theodore Sedgwick.

The Young American's magazine , (George W.

Annotations Text:

His drawing cards were part of a national effort to teach drawing as a skill in the schools while also

Back to ten thousand years

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1857
Text:

men, "capable of deeds of might, blessings, poems, enlightenment," with the suggestion that these were

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