1750- | Swift's Gulliver's Travels, 1726. | George III, 1760 --. | York, 1704. | Benjamin Franklin, 1706- | 1831. | Alexander Pope, 1688-1744. | The Stamp Act -- | Samuel Sewall's Diary, | 90. | McFingal, 1775, 1782. | Essay
on Criticism, 1711. | passed, 1765; | 1673-1729. | The Busy Body, 1729. | Timothy Dwight, 1752- | Essay on
Man, 1734. | repealed, 1766. | Byrd's History of the Dividing | The Almanac, 1733-58. | 1817. | Thomson's
The Seasons, 1730. | Duty on Tea, 1767. | Line, 1729. | Father Abraham's | Conquest of Canaan, 1785. | Richardson's Pamela, 1740. | Boston Tea Party, 1773. | Progress to the Mines, | Speech, 1758. | Joel Barlow,
1754-1812. | Collins's Odes, 1746. | Boston Port Bill, 1774. | 1733. | Autobiography, begun, | Vision of Columbus,
1787. | Fielding's Tom Jones, 1749. | First Continental Congress, | Beverley's History of | 1771; resumed,
1788. | Hasty Pudding, 1793. | Gray's Elegy, 1751. | 1774. | Virginia, 1705 and 1722. | James Otis, 1725-83. | Ballads of the Revolution. | Smollett's Peregrine Pickle, | Lexington and Concord, | Prince's History of New | Samuel Adams, 1722-1803. | Phillis Wheatley's Poems, | 1751. | April 19, 1775. | England, 1736. | Patrick
Henry, 1736-99. | pub. 1773. | Sterne's Tristram Shandy, 1759. | Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. | Stith's First
Discovery and | John Hancock, 1737-93. | Philip Freneau, 1752-1832. | Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-74. | Declaration
of Independence, | Settlement of Virginia, | Joseph Warren, 1741-75. | The British Prison Ship, | The Vicar
of Wakefield, 1765. | 1776. | 1747. | Josiah Quincy, 1744-75. | 1781. | The Deserted Village, 1770. | French
Alliance, 1778. | Letters of Washington. | Thomas Paine, 1737-1809. | Poems, pub. 1786, 1795. | She Stoops
to Conquer, 1773. | Surrender of Cornwallis, 1781. | Letters of John Adams and his wife, Abigail. | Common
Sense, 1776. | The Contrast, 1787. | Samuel Johnson, 1709-84. | Treaty of Peace, 1783. | Journal of John
Woolman, pub. 1774. | Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826. | The Father, 1789. | Hume's England, 1754-61. | Constitutional Convention, 1787. | | Alex. Hamilton, 1757-1804. | The Power of Sympathy, 1789. | Gibbon's
Rome, 1776-88. | Adoption of Constitution of U.S., 1788. | | James Madison, 1751-1836. | Charlotte Temple,
1790. | Cowper's Task,, 1785. | Administration of Washington, 1789-97. | | John Jay, 1745-1829. | The Coquette,
1797. | Burns's Poems, 1785. | Administration of John Adams, 1797-1801. | | The Federalist, 1787-88. | The
Algerine Captive, 1799. | Burke's Conciliation with America, 1775. | | | | Charles Brockden Brown, 1771-1810. | Reflections on the French Revolution, 1790. | | | | Wieland, Ormond, | Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794. | | | | Arthur Mervyn, 1798-1800. | Godwin's Caleb Williams, 1794. | | | | | Lewis's The Monk, 1795. | | | | | Wordsworth and
Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, 1798. | |
The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear -- but left
the shield." Eutaw Springs.
"When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield." Marmion
(Introd. to Canto III).
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