Itinerant Observations in America

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University of Delaware Press, 1998 - 137 páginas
Before he became editor of the London Magazine and a prolific novelist, Edward Kimber traveled to America and recorded his impressions. Itinerant Observations in America provides a vivid record of life in colonial America. This edition presents the work as it was first published sporadically during the mid-1740s in the London Magazine. Also included are edited and annotated versions of the poems that Kimber wrote during his American sojourn. Kimber's descriptions of the natural landscape are filled with poetic imagery, while his descriptions of the towns, buildings, and fortifications are realistic and original. For many places he visited, especially coastal Georgia, Kimber's narrative provides unique evidence concerning their contemporary appearance.

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Itinerant Observations in America
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Journey
66
Notes
97
Bibliography
122
FirstLine Index to the Poems
128
Index
129
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Página 81 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Página 62 - Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches." "So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumberable, both small and great beasts.
Página 48 - Perseverance; let an hundred Men shew him how to hoe, or drive a Wheelbarrow, he'll still take the one by the Bottom, and the other by the Wheel; and they often die before they can be conquer'd.
Página 47 - The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand...
Página 105 - Their eyes are ravished with the beauties of naked nature. Their ears are serenaded with the perpetual murmur of brooks, and the thorowbase which the wind plays, when it wantons through the trees; the merry birds too, join their pleasing notes to this rural consort, especially the mockbirds, who love society so well, that whenever they see mankind, they will perch upon a twigg very near them, and sing the sweetest wild airs in the world...
Página 117 - They are such Lovers of Riding, that almost every ordinary Person keeps a Horse; and I have known some spend the Morning in ranging several Miles in the Woods to find and catch their Horses only to ride two or three Miles to Church, to the Court-House, or to a Horse-Race...
Página 121 - The town is built on a level spot of ground upon Elizabeth River, the banks whereof are neither so high as to make the landing of goods troublesome, or so low as to be in danger of overflowing. The streets are straight and adorned with several good houses, which increase every day. It is not a town of ordinaries and public houses, like most others in this country, but the inhabitants consist of merchants, shipcarpenters and other useful artisans, with sailors enough to manage their navigation.
Página 55 - One Thing they are very faulty in, with regard to their Children," he wrote of the white planters in the July 1746 number of The London Magazine, "which is, that when young, they suffer them too much to prowl amongst the young Negroes, which insensibly causes them to imbibe their Manners and broken Speech.
Página 52 - And onwards thro* the woods my journey take; The level road the longsome way beguiles; A blooming wilderness around me smiles; Here hardy oak, there fragrant hick'ry grows...

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