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Philosophic solitude: or, The choice of a rural life. : A poem. / By a gentleman educated at Yale College. ; [Two lines of quotations in Latin].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Livingston, William, 1723-1790, author.
Contributor:
Welles, Noah, 1718-1776.
Smith, William Peartree, 1723-1801.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5986.
Language:
English
Genre:
Poems -- 1747.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 13-44 pages, 2 unnumbered pages)
Place of Publication:
New-York: : Printed by James Parker, 1747.
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Half-title: Philosophic solitude: a poem.
Attributed to Livingston in the Dictionary of American biography.
"To the ingenious author of the poem entitled Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. iii-vi, in verse; signed: N.W. [i.e., Noah Welles]. "To Mr. L*********, on his Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. vii-x, in verse; signed: W.P.S. [id est, William Peartree Smith]. Cf. Sedgewick, Theodore. Memoir of the life of William Livingston (New York, 1833), pages 62.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 5986).
Cited in:
Evans 5986
Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 245
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