The Beauties of poetry, British and American: containing some of the productions of Waller, Milton, Addison, Pope, Shirley, Parnell, Watts, Thomson, Young, Shenstone, Akenside, Gray, Goldsmith, Johnson, Moore, Garrick, Cowper, Beattie, Burns, Merry, Cowley, Wolcott, Palmerton, Penrose, Evans, Barlow, Dwight, Freneau, Humphreys, Livingston, J. Smith, W. M. Smith, Bayard, Hopkinson, James, Markoe, Prichard, Fentham, Bradford, Dawes, Lathrop, Osborne. Philadelphia: From the press of M. Carey. No. 118, Market-Street. m. dcc. xci. 3 p.l. (incl. leaf of adv.), vii, viii, 244 p. 16º.
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Columbia, by Dwight.—Benevolence, by Dawes.—Woman’s fate, by Bayard.—Future state of the western territory; American winter; On love and the American fair; Depredations and destruction of the Algerines; by Humphreys.—Excellent logic; British favours to America; Extreme humanity; Omens; Nobility anticipated; by Trumbull.—Description of the first American Congress; American Revolution; American sages; American painters; American poets; by Barlow.—Eulogium on rum, by Jos. Smith.—Faith, an ode; Hope, an ode; Charity, an ode; by Markoe.—On a lady’s birth day, by W. M. Smith.—Description of Jehovah, from the xviiith Psalm, by Ladd.—The Country meeting, by T. C. James.—On the birth-day of Gen. Washington, by Markoe.—Art and nature, by W. M. Smith.—The old soldier, by Fentham.—The war-horse, by Ladd.—On the migration to America and peopling the western country, by Freneau.—A pastoral song, by Bradford.—The seasons moralized, by Dwight.—Character of St. Tamany, by Pritchard.—A song, by Dwight.—The Federal Convention.—A fair bargain, by Hopkinson.—Song sung in St. Andrew’s Society, New York, on Tuesday August 22, 1790, when Colonel Alexander M’Gillwray was present.—Address to the robin red-breast, by Bayard.—A winter piece, by Lathrop.—Elegiac epistle on the death of his sisters—and sent to another, by Osborn.—Hymn sung at the Universal meeting house in Boston, Easter Sunday, April 4, 1790.—The Deity, and his dispensations; Creation; Original state of man; Three fold state of man emblematized; Prospect of America; by Dwight.—Progress of science, by Evans.—Philosophic solitude, by Livingston.—Sketches of American history, by Freneau.—An Indian eclogue, by Jos. Smith.
Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798. An eclogue, occasioned by the death of the Reverend Alexander Cummings, A.M., on the 25th of August A. D. 1763. Ætat. 37.... (By J. Belknap, B.A.) Boston: Printed by D. & J. Kneeland, for J. Edwards, 1763. 8 p. 16º.
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Benedict, David, 1779-1874. A poem delivered in Taunton, September 16th, A.D. 1807, at the anniversary election of the Philandrian Society. By David Benedict. Boston: Belcher & Armstrong, printers, No. 70, State-Street. 1807. 1 p.l., (1)4-19 p. 8º.
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—— The watery war: or, A poetical description of the existing controversy between the Pedobaptists and Baptists, on the subjects and mode of baptism. By John of Enon. Boston: Printed and sold by Manning & Loring, No. 2, Cornhill. 1808. 2 p.l., (1)6-34 p. 12º.