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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].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Livingston, William, 1723-1790, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11315.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poems -- 1769.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 15-40 pages)
- Edition:
- The third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York: : Printed by John Holt at the exchange., [1769]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Attributed to Livingston in the Dictionary of American biography.
- Date of publication suggested by Evans.
- "To the ingenious author of the poem entiteed [sic] Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. v-viii, in verse; signed: N.W. [i.e., Noah Welles]. "To Mr, L*************** on his Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. ix-xii, in verse; signed: W.P.S. [id est, William Peartree Smith]. Cf. Sedgwick, 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 11315).
- Cited in:
- Evans 11315
- Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 245
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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