The Parterre of poetry and historical romance Volume 3 ; with essays, sketches, and anecdotes

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: …have often, and not without reason, been compared to the northern inhabitants of our own island; but, I think, the NewEnglanders have all the steadiness and prudence of the Scotch, with a yet greater degree of ingenuity. Like the Scotch, they foster education; like the Scotch, they are inclined to the more severe forms of religious discipline and worship; like the Scotch, they are fearfully longwinded: like them they are gadders abroad, loving to turn their faces southward and westward, pushing their fortunes wherever fortunes are to be pushed, and often in places and by shifts where no one ever dreamed-that fortunes were to be gained. They may be found supplanting the less energetic possessor of land and property in every state of the Union. They have a firfger upon the rim of every man’s dish, and a toe at every man’s heel. They are the pedlars and schoolmasters of the whole country; and, though careless of good living abroad, when at home and at ease, they are fond of “creature comforts.” No where is the stomach of the traveller or visitor put in such constant peril, as among the cake-inventive housewives and daughters of New-England. Such is the universal attention paid to this particular branch of epicurism in these states, that I greatly suspect that some of the pilgrim fathers must have come over to the country with the cookerybook under one arm, and the Bible under the other; though I find in more than one code of ancient laws made in early times, orders issued that no personsshould make ” cakes or buns, except for solemn festal occasions, such as burials and marriages.” There are but few boys among them; many of their children seem to start up at once to puny men. I should not think they were a fun-loving nation, or had great re…