Philosophic solitude: or, The choice of a rural life: a poem. By a gentleman educated at Yale College. [Two lines of quotations in Latin]
Livingston, William,1723-1790.
Smith, William Peartree,1723-1801.
Welles, Noah,1718-1776.
[Boston] : New-York: Printed, MDCCXLVII. Boston: Reprinted and sold by B. Mecom, at the new printing-office, near the Town-House,
1762.
"To the ingenious author of the poem, entitled 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. [i.e., William Peartree Smith]. Cf. Sedgwick, Theodore. Memoir of the life of William Livingston (New York, 1833), p. 62.
Attributed to Livingston in the Dictionary of American biography.
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