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  The travels of the imagination; a true journey from Newcastle to London. : To which are added, American independence, an everlasting deliverance from British tyranny: a poem.
  Date of publication:
  1778
  

  Author(s):

  Murray, James, 1732-1782. ; Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832. American independence.
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  Attributed to James Murray by Evans. Also issued as part of: Miscellanies for sentimentalists ... Philadelphia : Robert Bell, 1778 (Evans 15914). "American independence, an everlasting deliverance from British tyranny. A ...
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  The man of feeling: a novel, / by Mr. Mackenzie, of Edinburg. Author of Julia de Roubigne, and The man of the world. ; With The sentimental sailor. A poem, originating from Rousseau's Eloisa. ; [Six lines of verse from Propertius]
  Date of publication:
  1782
  

  Author(s):

  Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831. ; Merrick, James, 1720-1769. ; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, dedicatee. ; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Eloisa. ; Mercer, Thomas, b. 1709. Sentimental sailor.
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  Error in paging: p. 77-103 misnumbered 76-102. Bookseller's advertisement, p. iv. "The wish by Mr. Merrick."--p. [72]. "The sentimental sailor, versified from Rousseau; or St. Preux to Eloisa, an elegy in two parts, with ...
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  The death of General Montgomery, in storming the city of Quebec. A tragedy. : With an ode, in honour of the Pennsylvania Militia, and the small band of regular Continental troops, who sustained the campaign, in the depth of winter, January, 1777, and repulsed the British forces from the banks of the Delaware. / By the author of a dramatic piece, on the Battle of Bunkers's Hill. ; To which are added, elegiac pieces, commemorative of distinguished characters. By different gentlemen. ; [One line from Virgil, with Pitt's translation]
  Date of publication:
  1777
  

  Author(s):

  Brackenridge, H. H. (Hugh Henry), 1748-1816. ; Parke, John, 1754-1789. ; Mifflin, thomas, 1744-1800, dedicatee. ; Norman, John, ca. 1748-1817, engraver. ; N. G., ill.
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  Attributed to Hugh Henry Brackenridge in BAL. Prologue, p. [82-83] signed: J.P. [i.e., John Parke]. Frontispiece signed: N.G. inv. Norman, sc. With a half-title. With a half-title. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [82-84].
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  The day of doom: or, A poetical description of the Great and Last Judgment. With a short discourse about eternity. / By Michael Wigglesworth, teacher of the church at Maldon, in N.E.
  Date of publication:
  1701
  

  Author(s):

  Wigglesworth, Michael, 1631-1705. ; Mitchel, Jonathan, 1624-1668.
  Description:
  "On the following work, and it's author."--p. [9-10], 1st count, in verse. Signed: J. Mitchel. Bookseller's advertisement, p. 80.
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  The complaint; or Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality. By the Reverend Edward Young, LL.D. ; To which are added, a poetical paraphrase on part of the Book of Job; and his poem on the last day. ; [Six lines from Fleetwood]
  Date of publication:
  1777
  

  Author(s):

  Young, Edward, 1683-1765. ; Norman, John, ca. 1748-1817, engraver. ; Young, Edward, 1683-1765. Poem on the last day. ; Young, Edward, 1683-1765. Paraphrase on part of the Book of Job.
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  Frontispiece engraved by John Norman. With a half-title. Errors in paging: p. 140-144 misnumbered 142, 141, 144, 143, 134. "A poem on the last day. In three books. By the Reverend Edward Young, L.L.D."--p. [317]-357, with ...
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  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, Palmerston, Penrose. Evans, Barlow, Dwight, Freneau, Humphreys, Livingston, J. Smith, W.M. Smith, Ladd, Bayard, Hopkinson, James, Markoe, Prichard, Fentham, Bradford, Dawes, Lathrop, Osborne.
  Date of publication:
  1791
  

  Author(s):

  Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, ed.
  Description:
  Editor's preface dated: Philadelphia, Dec. 1, 1791. Evans suggests Mathew Carey as editor. "Books and pamphlets lately printed and published by M. Carey ..."--p. [i-ii].
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  Some of the exercises of a believing soul described; in a short answer to twelve serious and important questions. See contents in the next page. / By Eunice Smith, of Ashfield. Author of Mary and Martha.
  Date of publication:
  1792
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, Eunice, of Ashfield. ; Hearsey, Freeman, b. 1773?
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  "To fill up a vacant page, the editor has inserted The spiritual soldier's uniform. By Mr. F-----n H----y [i.e., Freeman Hearsey] of Boston, aet. 19."--p. [23]-24. Printer's advertisement, p. 24.
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  Sacred dramas, chiefly intended for young persons: the subjects taken from the Bible. : To which are added: Reflections of King Hezekiah, and Sensibility, a poem. / By Hannah More. ; [Three lines from Cowley]
  Date of publication:
  1787
  

  Author(s):

  More, Hannah, 1745-1833. ; Beaufort, Elizabeth, Duchess of, d. 1828, dedicatee.
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  Dedicated to the Duchess of Beaufort. Two states noted by Evans; one on fine and one on common paper. Bookseller's advertisements, p. 191-[192].
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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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  New-England's misery, the procuring cause, and a remedy proposed. Composed October, 1758.
  Date of publication:
  1758
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  In verse. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [16].
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