Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . py together for many years, and in theirhome at Plymouth she brought up severalhealthy happy children besides writing a num-ber of respectable works. From her His-tory of the Revolution, which is in many waysa really valuable book, I have already quoted indescribing the character of Hancock. But her* Poems Dramatic and Miscellaneous, pub-lished in 1790, and about which a good deal issaid in many chapters on post-revolutionaryliterature, is a very tiresome offering, chieflyoccupied by two long and dull traged
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . py together for many years, and in theirhome at Plymouth she brought up severalhealthy happy children besides writing a num-ber of respectable works. From her His-tory of the Revolution, which is in many waysa really valuable book, I have already quoted indescribing the character of Hancock. But her* Poems Dramatic and Miscellaneous, pub-lished in 1790, and about which a good deal issaid in many chapters on post-revolutionaryliterature, is a very tiresome offering, chieflyoccupied by two long and dull tragedies: TheSack of Rome and The Ladies of poem of hers, written on the Boston TeaParty and called the * Squabble of the SeaNymphs, has the faults common to all her poetry. It is odd to find that Mrs. Warrens friends,Abigail Adams and Hannah Winthrop, werealways beseeching her to put into verse descrip-tions of events much better suited to prose;often the very letter imploring her to poeticeffusion would itself be literature, though itswriter knew it not! Hannah Winthrop, for.
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