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  Collection of 18th century English verse
  Date of publication:
  1700-1799
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  Catalogued on RLIN
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  Description of the sufferings of those who were on board the Jersey and other prison ships in the harbour of New-York, during the struggle for our glorious independence. by an American who was a prisoner on board one of them.
  Date of publication:
  1781-1786
  

  Author(s):

  Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832.
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  By Philip Freneau. For a discussion of the three known texts of this poem, see "A broadside of Freneau's The British Prison Ship," by Philip Marsh and Milton Ellis, in American literature, v. 10, no. 4, Jan. 1939, p. ...
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  Art of contentment; with several entertaining pieces of poetry, descriptive of the present times, in the U. States of America. / By John Searson, formerly a merchant of Philadelphia. ; [Six lines of quotation]
  Date of publication:
  1797-1799
  

  Author(s):

  Searson, John. ; Washington, George, 1732-1799, dedicatee.
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  "The prose part of the 'Art of contentment,' is chiefly selected from the first European writers. Several of the pieces (those descriptive of America particularly) are my own ..."--p. vi. Dedicated to George Washington. ...
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  Poems and songs of Robert Burns / compiled by D.R. Thornton
  Date of publication:
  1771-1796
  

  Author(s):

  Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
  Description:
  In Scots and English Title from title page of source text
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  Poems
  Date of publication:
  1795-1807
  

  Author(s):

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
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  Mode of access: Online. OTA website
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  Poems. Selections
  Date of publication:
  1747-1777
  

  Author(s):

  Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
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  Mode of access: Online. OTA website Title proper taken from first three titles in electronic text Contents: Ode on the spring. Ode on the death of a favourite cat. Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College. Hymn to adversity. ...
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  Alexis ; Damon, Menalcas and Meliboeus ; Danish ode ... / Michael Bruce
  Date of publication:
  1750-1767
  

  Author(s):

  Bruce, Michael, 1746-1767
  Description:
  Mode of access: Online. OTA website Title proper taken from titles of first three poems that appear in the text Contents: Alexis ; Damon, Menalcas and Meliboeus ; Danish ode ; The eagle, crow, and shepherd ; An epigram ; ...
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  The Companion: being a selection of the beauties of the most celebrated authors, in the English language. In prose and verse. : [Two lines from Akenside]
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N26571) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 35333) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  Letters on various interesting and important subjects; many of which have appeared in the Aurora. Corrected and much enlarged. / By Robert Slender. O.S.M. ; [Two lines from Pope]
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832.
  Description:
  Caption title: Slender's letters. By Philip Freneau. "O.S.M" stands for "One of the swinish multitude." Two states noted in BAL. In the first, p. 74 is misnumbered 47; in the second, the error is corrected. "Fourth of ...
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  The virtues of society. A tale, founded on fact. / By the author of The virtues of nature. ; [Two lines from Cartwright] ; Published according to act of Congress.
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 1759-1846. ; Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818, dedicatee.
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  In verse. Attributed to Sarah Wentworth Morton in BAL. Dedicated to Abigail Adams. "To time."--p. 39-46, in verse.
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  The New pleasing instructor: or, Young lady's guide to virtue and happiness. Consisting of essays, relations, descriptions, epistles, dialogues, and poetry. / Carefully extracted from the best modern authors. Designed principally for the use of female schools; but calculated for general instruction and amusement. By a lady.
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  Rowson, Mrs., 1762-1824, ed..
  Description:
  Possibly edited by Mrs. Rowson; cf. BAL, v. 7, p. 308. Error in paging: p. 287 misnumbered 297.
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  The author wishing it may be improved and enlarged, by some abler pen, now casts in her mite, to the memory of that worthy person, whose loss we severely feel. Hannah Wheaton.
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  Wheaton, Hannah.
  Description:
  Twelve stanzas of verse on the death of George Washington; first line: My Father! Cries the United States. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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  Wisdom, a poem. : Wisdom sprang from the Supreme Being; and by that wisdom he overcomes evil. By wisdom, peace and plenty flourish in cities and civil societies; and, by its means, private men may be enabled to enjoy domestic happiness. / By a Quaker, (or Friend) of R. Island.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Wilkinson, Edward, 1728-1809.
  Description:
  Attributed to Edward Wilkinson in: Smith, Joseph, Descriptive catalogue of Friends' books, London, 1867. Ascribed to the press of Thomas Collier by Evans.
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  The spunkiad: or Heroism improved. A Congressional display of spit and cudgel. : A poem, in four cantoes. / By an American youth.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  American youth. ; Woodworth, John, 1768-1858.
  Description:
  A satire on the encounters between Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold in the House of Representatives on Jan. 30 and Feb. 15, 1798. Attributed to John Woodworth by Evans.
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  Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 ; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
  Description:
  Copy used for transcription was a facsimile ed. from 1934 of the British Library ms
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  The unsex'd females: a poem, addressed to the author of the Pursuits of literature
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Polwhele, Richard, 1760-1838
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  Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive.
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  A journal, of the captivity and sufferings of John Foss; several years a prisoner at Algiers: together with some account of the treatment of Christian slaves when sick:-- and observations of the manners and customs of the Algerines. : [Eight lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Foss, John, d. 1800. ; Paine, Robert Treat, 1773-1811. ; Citizen of Newburyport. Algerine slaves. ; Algeria. Treaties, etc. United States. 1795 Sept. 5.
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  Advertised as "this day published" in the Newburyport herald for Nov. 20, 1798. Copy of the peace treaty between the Dey of Algiers and the United States, and other documents, p. 162-173. "The Algerine slaves. A poem. By ...
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  A journal, of the captivity and sufferings of John Foss; several years a prisoner in Algiers: together with some account of the treatment of Christian slaves when sick:-- and observations of the manners and customs of the Algerines. : Published according to act of Congress.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Foss, John, d. 1800. ; Humphreys, David, 1752-1818. Poem on the happiness of America.
  Description:
  Advertised as "this day [i.e., January 23, 1798] published" in the Newburyport herald, for Jan. 26, 1798. Extracts from a poem by Col. Humphreys on the happiness of America, p. 75-80.
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  French arrogance; or, "The cat let out of the bag;" a poetical dialogue between the envoys of America, and X.Y.Z. and the lady.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
  Description:
  In verse. Attributed to William Cobbett by Gaines. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
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  The botanic garden. A poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. : With philosophical notes.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. ; Smith, E. H. (Elihu Hubbard), 1771-1798, ed. ; Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848, engraver.
  Description:
  Attributed to Erasmus Darwin in the Dictionary of national biography. Each part has separate title page. Part I is from the 3d, part II from the 4th London edition. Edited for republication, with a poetic "Epistle to the ...
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  A Compendious view and brief defence of the peculiar and leading doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832. On the Honorable Emanuel Swedenborg's Universal theology.
  Description:
  With a hymn on p. iv. "On the Honorable Emanuel Swedenborg's Universal theology. By Philip Freneau."--p. xxxv-xxxvi.
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  Amelia; or, The faithless Briton. An original American novel, founded upon recent facts. : To which is added, Amelia, or Malevolence defeated; and, Miss Seward's Monody on Major Andre.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Trenchard, James, b. 1747, engraver. ; Hayley, William, 1745-1820. History of Amelia, or Malevolence defeated.
  Description:
  "Amelia, or Malevolence defeated" has been attributed to William Hayley. Cf. Pitcher, E.W. "Some emendations for Lyle B. Wright's American fiction 1774-1850." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 74 (1980): ...
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  Monody on Major Andre. By Miss Seward,[.]
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Seward, Anna, 1742-1809.
  Description:
  Issued as part of: Amelia; or, The faithless Briton ... Boston : W. Spotswood and C.P. Wayne, 1798 (Evans 33290). Also issued separately (Evans 34533) and as part of Florian, de, M. Galatea, a pastoral romance ... Boston, ...
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  A tribute to the United States. A poem. / By John Davis. ; [One line of Latin quotation]
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Davis, John, 1774-1854.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N25347) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 33609) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  The politicians; or, A state of things. A dramatic piece. / Written by an American, and a citizen of Philadelphia.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Murdock, John, 1748-1834.
  Description:
  Attributed to John Murdock by Evans. Edwin Wolf notes the presence in some copies of a leaf inserted between [A]1 and [A]2, containing an "Editor's note." Cf. his "Historical grist for the bibliographer's mill." Studies ...
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  A short account of a northwest voyage, performed in the years 1796, 1797 & 1798. By Ebenezer Johnson. ; [Two lines of quotation.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Johnson, Ebenezer.
  Description:
  Half-title: Johnson's northwest voyage: performed in the years 1796, 1797 & 1798. Title vignette. Poem, p. 14-15.
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  Miscellaneous extracts in prose and verse. Calculated for the amusement of the humerous [sic] and gay, as well as for the instruction and service of the enquiring and busy world. : To which are added, a number of important questions; which questions, whoever will effectually and satisfactorily answer, shall be entitled to one hundred dollars reward on demand, from Dan. C. Melville.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Melville, Daniel C.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N25671) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 34092) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  A collection of plays and poems, by the late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg county, in the state of Virginia. ; Now first published together.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Munford, Robert, d. 1784. ; Munford, William, 1775-1825, ed.
  Description:
  Preface signed by the author's son, William Munford. Edwin Wolf notes completely reset variants of gatherings C and N. Cf. Wolf, "Historical grist for the bibliographical mill." Studies in bibliography 25 (1972): 30. Error ...
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  The unsex'd females : a poem, addressed to the author of the Pursuits of literature
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Polwhele, Richard, 1760-1838
  Description:
  Title proper taken from Readme.2050 file accompanying the text Contents: File 1. readme.2050 [contains details about the creation of the text ; File 2. Introduction, Poem and authors notes. List of works. Appendix I: The ...
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  The American in Algiers, or The patriot of seventy-six in captivity. A poem, in two cantos. : [Two lines of verse from Freneau]
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  "Extract from a pamphlet, entitled, 'Reflections on the inconsistency of man.'"--p. [34]-36.
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  The ghost of John Young the homicide, who was executed the 17th of August last, for the murder of Robert Barwick, a sherif's officer. : The following monody is written with a view of rescuing his memory from obloquy, and shewing how inconsistent sanguinary laws are, in a country which boasts of her freedom and happiness./ By Mrs. Faugeres. ; (Price six pence).
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Faugeres, Margaretta V., 1771-1801.
  Description:
  "This is a verse dialogue, with the spirit of the murderer relating how severely he had been dealt with."--McDade. Place and date of publication supplied by Evans.
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  The dying prostitute. A poem. / By Charles Crawford, Esq. ; [Five lines of quotation]
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Crawford, Charles, b. 1752.
  Description:
  "Lately published by this author ..."--p. 12.
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  Beacon Hill. A local poem, historic and descriptive. Book I. : Published according to act of Congress.
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 1759-1846.
  Description:
  Half-title: Beacon Hill. Book I. "Apology for the poem" signed: S.M. Attributed to Sarah Wentworth Morton in BAL. No more published.
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  The progress of dulness, or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless. By the celebrated author of Mc.Fingal.
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Trumbull, John, 1750-1831.
  Description:
  In verse. Attributed to John Trumbull in the Dictionary of American biography. The progress of dulness. Part first -- The progress of dulness. Part second. Or An essay on the life and character of Dick Hairbrain of finical ...
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  A Real treasure for the pious mind. Compiled by a lady of Connecticut. ; From the collections and writings of the Countess of Huntingdon, Mrs. Rowe, Miss Harvey, Mr. Perin, and Mr. Smith.
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737. ; Harvey, Jane. ; Perin, Mr. ; Smith, Mr. ; Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791.
  Description:
  Bookseller's advertisement, p. [2].
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  The Wonderful story-teller; or Pocket library of agreeable entertainment. Containing a miscellaneous collection of remarkable stories, surprising narratives, wonderful occurrences, singular events, whimsical tales, striking anecdotes, miraculous and heroic adventures in human life, odd sayings, supernatural visions, unaccountable appearances, absurd characters, memorable exploits, astonishing deliverances from death and various other dangers, amusing histories, strange accidents, extraordinary memoirs, &c. in the wonderful phenomena of nature. : The whole interspersed with choice extracts from the most celebrated historians, ancient and modern; and including many wonderful stories entirely original, and founded on well-attested facts. / By Walley C. Oulton, Esq. ; [Eight lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Oulton, Walley Chamberlain, 1770?-1820?, comp.
  Description:
  "Partly selected from the works of our most ancient authors, and partly original, being written on purpose by several well-known characters (both ladies and gentlemen) for this valuable undertaking ..."--Preface. "Poetical ...
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  A collection of fugitive essays, in prose and verse. Written by Charles Prentiss. ; [One line from Johnson] ; Published according to act of Congress.
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Prentiss, Charles, 1774-1820.
  Description:
  Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription. In some copies, an errata slip is mounted on p. 4. "Haven, or The merited gallows. In three acts."--p. [173]-204.
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  Means for the preservation of public liberty. An oration delivered in the New Dutch Church, on the Fourth of July, 1797. Being the twenty-first anniversary of our independence. / By G.J. Warner. [Ten lines of verse from Freneau]
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Warner, G. J. (George James). ; Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832.
  Description:
  Half-title: Oration, delivered before the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, the Democratic and New-York Cooper Societies and other citizens. July 4th, 1797. "Ode (composed ...
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  Sappho and Phaon: in a series of legitimate sonnets, with thoughts on poetical subjects, and anecdotes of the Grecian poetess
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
  Description:
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  The hasty-pudding: a poem, in three cantos. / Written at Chambery, in Savoy, January, 1793. ; [Two lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812.
  Description:
  "Written by Mr. Barlow."--p. [2]. Publisher's prefatory advertisement dated: New Haven, April, 1796. "Evans calls for a frontispiece and 1 plate but no copy examined for this collation is so distinguished. Evans may have ...
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  The political writings of Joel Barlow. --Containing-- Advice to the privileged orders. Letter to the national convention. Letter to the people of Piedmont. The conspiracy of kings.
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812.
  Description:
  Two states of the title page noted in BAL. In one, the imprint reads as given here; in the other, the words "by them" are omitted. Error in paging: p. 195 misnumbered 185. "Note on Mr. Burke"--p. [252]-258.
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  The hasty-pudding: a poem, in three cantos, / by Joel Barlow. ; Written in Germany, in Savoy, January, 1793. ; [Two lines of text]
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812.
  Description:
  Date of publication supplied by Evans.
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  The hasty-pudding, a poem, in three cantos; / written in Chambery in Savoy, Jan. 1793. ; [Two lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812.
  Description:
  By Joel Barlow. Printer's name suggested by Evans.
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  The genuine experience, and dying address, of Mrs. Dolly Taylor, of Reading, (Vermont,) who departed this life, May 19th, 1794. / Actually dictated by herself, and taken from her lips, but a little before her death. ; Now published, with her husband's testimony concerning her, for whom he mourns, but not without hope.
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Taylor, Dolly, 1755-1794. ; Taylor, Amos, b. 1748.
  Description:
  Ascribed to the press of Anthony Haswell by McCorison. "Living testimony of Amos Taylor, of Reading, in respect to the foregoing narrative."--p. 9-12. Includes two poems by Amos Taylor, one "composed a few hours after her ...
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  A poem, on reading president Washington's address, declining a re-election to the presidency. (Written in October, 1796.) / By S.J.H. Esquire, one of the federal electors of the state of New-York,[.]
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Honeywood, St. John, 1763-1798.
  Description:
  By St. John Honeywood. Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing "Written in October, 1796." in title transcription.
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  The travelling millennarian to the people of America. [Eight lines of Scripture quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Correy, Molleston.
  Description:
  "On my past life."--p. 27-36, in verse.
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  The awful malignant fever at Newburyport, in the year 1796. An elegiac epistle to the mourners, on the death of forty persons ... Together with a short account of that alarming disorder--- / By Jonathan Plummer, Jun.
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Plummer, Jonathan, 1761-1819.
  Description:
  Elegiac epistle, first line: Daughters of Eve and sons of men. Includes also List of those who died, and four additional stanzas of verse entitled, Invitation to the inhabitants of Newburyport who have fled to the country, ...
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  The Hive: or A collection of thoughts on civil, moral, sentimental, and religious subjects: selected from the writings of near one hundred of the best authors of different nations; but chiefly from the most celebrated English writers, who have been esteemed the most correct and elegant models of fine composition. Intended as a repository of sententious, ingenious, and pertinent sayings, in verse and prose, to which youth may have recourse upon any particular topic; and by which they may be taught to think justly, write correctly and elegantly, and speak wtih propriety.
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832, engraver.
  Description:
  Frontispiece engraved by Amos Doolittle.
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  Sappho and Phaon : in a series of legitimate sonnets, with thoughts on poetical subjects, and anecdotes of the Grecian poetess
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
  Description:
  Contents: File 1. readme.2049 [contains details about the creation of the text] ; File 2. Preface, The subject of each sonnet [i.e. contents]. Sappho and Phaon. Notes This document also contains notes on the text created ...
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  Aristocracy. An epic poem. : [One line in Latin]
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815. ; Humphreys, David, 1752-1818.
  Description:
  Caption title: Aristocracy. Book first. Tentatively attributed to Richard Alsop by Evans, who notes that there is much in the poems suggesting David Humphreys as author. Preface dated: January 5th, 1795.
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  Aristotle's complete masterpiece, in three parts; displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man. Regularly divided into chapters and sections, rendering it far more useful and easy than any yet extant. : To which is added A treasure of health; or The family physician: being choice and approved remedies for all the several distempers incident to the human body.
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Aristotle.
  Description:
  Printer's name suggested by Evans and Austin. Engraved frontispiece printed on first leaf of gathering A.
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  Aristocracy. An epic poem. : [One line in Latin]
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815. ; Humphreys, David, 1752-1818.
  Description:
  Caption title: Aristocracy. Book second. Tentatively attributed to Richard Alsop by Evans, who notes that there is much in the poems suggesting David Humphreys as author. Preface dated: Philadelphia, March 26th, 1795. Error ...
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  The Hive: or A collection of thoughts on civil, moral, sentimental, and religious subjects: selected from the writings of near one hundred of the best authors of different nations; but chiefly from the most celebrated English writers, who have been esteemed the most correct and elegant models of fine composition. Intended as a repository of sententious, ingenious, and pertinent sayings, in verse and prose, to which youth may have recourse upon any particular topic; and by which they may be taught to think justly, write correctly and elegantly, and speak wtih propriety.
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832, engraver.
  Description:
  Frontispiece engraved by Amos Doolittle.
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  The romance of the forest. Interspersed with some pieces of poetry. / By Mrs. Ratclief [sic]. Authoress of "A Sicilian Romance," etc. ; [Five lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth] ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823.
  Description:
  Vol. 1: 156 p.; v. 2: p. 168 p.
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  A very remarkable account of the vision of Nathan Culver. Late of Newtown, (New-York.) Shewing, his deistical and vicious principles, and how he was converted to the truth, by an extraordinary and immediate revelation, Jan. 10, 1791. : [Four lines from Joel]
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Culver, Nathan, d. 1791. ; T. B.
  Description:
  Illustrated half-title: Mr. Culver's strange and wonderful vision of heaven and hell. Preface signed: T.B. Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing price in imprint transcription. "The returning prodigal" and ...
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  The echo: or, A satirical poem on the virtuous ten, and other celebrated characters: to which is added, a new song on the treaty.
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Hopkins, Lemuel, 1750-1801.
  Description:
  Attributed to Hopkins by Wegelin. Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing "Connecticut" in publication statement.
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  Elegaic sonnets, and other poems. By Charlotte Smith.
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806. ; Seymour, Joseph H., engraver.
  Description:
  "From the old press of Isaiah Thomas at Worcester."--colophon. Plates engraved by Joseph Seymour.
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  The mysteries of Udolpho, a romance; interspersed with some pieces of poetry. / By Ann Ratcliffe [sic], author of The romance of the forest, A Sicilian romance, &c. ; In three volumes. Vol. I[-III]. ; [Four lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823.
  Description:
  Evans incorrectly assumed a Worcester imprint for this edition. Vol. 1: 224 p.; v. 2, 224 p.; v. 3, 232 p.
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  M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos. / By John Trumbull, Esq. ; Embellished with nine copper plates; designed and engraved by E. Tisdale.
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. ; Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812, ed. ; Tisdale, Elkanah, b. ca. 1771, engraver. ; Tisdale, Elkanah, b. ca. 1771, ill.
  Description:
  The explanatory notes are by Joel Barlow. Cf. Dexter's Yale graduates, v. 3. First issued in four parts, in printed wrappers. The wrapper of no. 3 has imprint: New-York: Published by J. Buel, printer, and E. Tisdale, ...
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  Miscellaneous works, prose and poetical. By a young gentleman of New-York. ; [One line in Latin from Horace]
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Linn, John Blair, 1777-1804.
  Description:
  Attributed to John Blair Linn in the Dictionary of American biography. Subscribers' list, p. [5-12], 1st count. Errata note, p. [354].
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  Ovid's Art of love; in three books: : together with his Remedy of love: / translated into English verse, by several eminent hands: ; to which are added, The court of love, The history of love, and Armstrong's Oeconomy of love.
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. ; Preston, William, 1753-1807. ; Scrope, Carr, Sir, 1649-1680. ; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. ; Tristan L'Hermite, François, 1601-1655. ; Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753, dedicatee. ; Dryden, John, 1631-1700, tr. ; Preston, William, 1753-1807, tr. ; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715, tr. ; Armstrong, John, 1709-1779. Oeconomy of love. ; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Court of love. ; Hopkins, Charles, 1664?-1700. History of love. ; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Remedia amoris. English.
  Description:
  Dedicated to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington. Ovid's Art of love. / Translated, some years since, by Mr. Dryden -- Ovid's Remedy of love. / Translated by Mr. Tate -- The court of love. A vision. / By Chaucer -- The history ...
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  Greenfield Hill: a poem, in seven parts. I. The prospect. II. The flourishing village. III. The burning of Fairfield. IV. The destruction of the Pequods. V. The clergyman's advice to the villagers. VI. The farmer's advice to the villagers. VII. The vision, or prospect of the future happiness of America. / By Timothy Dwight. D.D.
  Date of publication:
  1794
  

  Author(s):

  Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817. ; Adams, John, 1735-1826, dedicatee.
  Description:
  Dedicated to John Adams. Errors in paging: p. 124 misnumbered 120; numbers 57-64 omitted from pagination. Errata statement, p. [184].
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  The Columbian muse. A selection of American poetry, from various authors of established reputation.
  Date of publication:
  1794
  

  Author(s):

  Carey, James, d. 1801, comp.
  Description:
  Poems by Trumbull, Freneau, Humphreys, Dwight, Barlow, and others. Compiled by James Carey. Cf. the correspondence of James and Mathew Carey, Aug. 22 to Nov. 30, 1794 (Mathew Carey business correspondence, Lea & Febigner ...
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  The conspiracy of kings; a poem: addressed to the inhabitants of Europe, from another quarter of the world. / By Joel Barlow, author of The vision of Columbus, Advice to the privileged orders, &c. &c. ; [Six lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1794
  

  Author(s):

  Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812.
  Description:
  "Note on Mr. Burke"--p. [25]-30.
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  The life of Gen. Washington, commander in chief of the American Army during the late war, and present president of the United States. Also, of the brave General Montgomery. : Embellished with cuts.
  Date of publication:
  1794
  

  Author(s):

  Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.
  Description:
  Attributed to Jedidiah Morse by Shipton & Mooney. With portraits of Washington and Montgomery. Poems, p. [32]-35. "Federal prayer."--p. 36.
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  The village merchant: a poem. : To which is added The country printer. : [Four lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1794
  

  Author(s):

  Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832.
  Description:
  Both poems appear in: Poems written between the years 1768 & 1794 by Philip Freneau of New Jersey ... Monmouth, N.J., 1794.
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  A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some late publications. By A.J. and R.A.
  Date of publication:
  1794
  

  Author(s):

  Jones, Absalom, 1746-1818. ; Allen, Richard, 1760-1831. ; Clarkson, Matthew, 1733-1800.
  Description:
  The "late publications" referred to are those of Mathew Carey, particularly his "Short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia ..." District of Pennsylvania copyright notice (p. [2]) names Absalom ...
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  Mentoria; or The young lady's friend. In two volumes. / By Mrs. Rowson, of the New-Threatre, Philadelphia: author of The inquisitor, Fille de chambre, Victoria, Charlotte, &c. &c.
  Date of publication:
  1794
  

  Author(s):

  Rowson, Mrs., 1762-1824.
  Description:
  Running title: Young lady's friend. Vol. 1: [2], v, [2], 10-106, [2] p.; v. 2: 116, [4] p. "Verses, addressed to a young lady, on her leaving school."--p. [9]-14. Bookseller's advertisements, v. 2, p. [117-119].
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  A short account of Algiers, and of its several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe, from the usurpation of Barbarossa and the invasion of the Emperor Charles V. to the present time. : With a concise view of the origin of the rupture between Algiers and the United States. : [Four lines from Buchanan] : To which is added, a copious appendix, containing letters from Captains Penrose, M'Shane, and sundry other American captives, with a description of the treatment those prisoners experience.
  Date of publication:
  1794
  

  Author(s):

  Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839. ; Scott, Joseph T., engraver. ; Humphreys, David, 1752-1818. Poem on the happiness of America. Selections.
  Description:
  Attributed to Mathew Carey by Evans. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint. Map of the Barbary Coast signed: J.T. Scott, sculp. "Extracts from a 'Poem on the happiness of America,' by Colonel Humphrys."--p. ...
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  The marriage of Heaven and Hell
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Blake, William, 1757-1827
  Description:
  Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive.
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  A letter to the National Convention of France, on the defects in the Constitution of 1791, and the extent of the amendments which ought to be applied. : To which is added The conspiracy of kings, a poem. / By Joel Barlow, author of Advice to the privileged orders; and The vision of Columbus.
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812. ; Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812. Conspiracy of kings.
  Description:
  Noted by the New-York journal & patriotic register, Oct. 2, 1793, as "in press." Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
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  The posthumous works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, in prose and verse. To which is added, a collection of essays, prose and poetical, by Margaretta V. Faugeres.
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Bleecker, Ann Eliza, 1752-1783. ; Faugeres, Margaretta V., 1771-1801. ; Tiebout, Cornelius, 1773?-1832, engraver.
  Description:
  Frontispiece portrait of Bleecker engraved by Tiebout. List of subscribers, p. [5-7], 1st count.
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  An account of the terrible effects of the pestilential infection in the city of Philadelphia. With an elegy on the deaths of the people. : Also a song of praise and thanksgiving, composed for those who have recovered, after having been smitten with that dreadful contagion. / By the Honourable Samuel Stearns, J.U.D. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.
  Description:
  In verse. Author's preface dated Nov. 13, 1793. Advertisement for Stearns' The American oracle, and for the Freemason's calendar for 1794, p. 8.
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  Travels through America. A poem. / By Michael Forrest.
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Forrest, Michael.
  Description:
  Address to fortune -- Verses addressed to a young gentleman at the Charleston College-Academy, in 1790 -- A specimen of unlimited sublime poetry -- Man shall be free. A new song. Written Feruary 25, 1793.
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  Poems on several subjects: written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher in the County of Wilts, at the wages of four shillings and six pence per week. ; Which were publicly read in the drawing-room at Windsor Castle, on Friday the 11th of September, 1730, to Her Majesty Queen Caroline--who was thereupon pleased to take the author into her protection. ; To which is addd [sic] The woman's labour: an epistle to Stephen Duck; in answer to his poem, called The thresher's labour: together with the three wise sentences taken from Esdras, Ch. III and IV. By Mary Collier, a washer-woman.
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756. ; Collier, Mary.
  Description:
  Bookseller's advertisement, p. [44].
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  American poems, selected and original. Vol. I.
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, E. H. (Elihu Hubbard), 1771-1798, ed.
  Description:
  "Edited by Elihu Hubbard Smith."--Evans. No more published. Preface dated: Litchfield (Connecticut) June 1793. Printers' monogram device on title page. The University of Miami reports a variant with a small ornament in ...
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  The rights of asses, a poem. : [Two lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Dullass, A.
  Description:
  Satirical verses occasioned by a meeting of the British convention of delegates of the Friends of the People. William Pitt and Thomas Muir are obliquely mentioned. Signed on p. 11: A. Dullass, N.P. Ascribed to the Burlington ...
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  The Danger of excessive drinking. A poem. : [Two lines from Solomon]
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint supplied by Evans. Another edition (Bristol B8637; Shipton & Mooney 47021) has imprint: Printed for the author. 1794.
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  The British album. A collection of poems. : [Three lines of anonymous verse]
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Merry, Robert, 1755-1798. ; Cowley, Mrs. (Hannah), 1743-1809. ; Andrews, Miles Peter, d. 1814. ; Jerningham, Mr. (Edward), 1737?-1812. ; Reed, Joseph, 1723-1787. ; Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, dedicatee. ; Hill, Samuel, 1766?-1804, engraver. ; Merry, Robert, 1755-1798. Ambitious vengeance ...
  Description:
  Printer's monogram device on title page. Second title page reads: The British album. Containing the poems of Della Crusca, Anna Matilda, Arley, Benedict, the bard, &c. &c. &c. Revised and corrected by their respective ...
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  The marriage of Heaven and Hell / by William Blake
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Blake, William, 1757-1827
  Description:
  Mode of access: Online. OTA website An old note stated that this text came from Great Expectations presumably an electronic resource website. Cannot be traced
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