Greatness & goodness elegized, in a poem, upon the much lamented decease of the honourable & vertuous Madam Hannah Sewall : late consort of the Honourable Judge Sewall, in Boston, in New-England. She exchanged this life for a better, October, 19th. Anno Dom. 1717. Ætatis su 60.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danforth, John, 1660-1730.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sewall, Hannah, 1657-1717.

Sewall, Hannah.

Genre:

Single sheet verse.

Broadsides.

Elegies.

Physical Description:

1 sheet : illustrations (relief cut) ; ?⁰

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1717]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Verse in seven stanzas; first line: A mind serene is only fit for verse.

Signed: Ita humillime Precatur John Danforth, V.D.M. Dorcestriæ.

Text in two columns surrounded by mourning border; woodcut (Reilly 18) at head, with the words "Memento mori. Remember death." -.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

Bristol, B522

Shipton & Mooney, 39662

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 417

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 106

English Short Title Catalog, W12530.

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