Philosophic solitude: or, The choice of a rural life.
Subtitle: A poem.
By: By a gentleman educated at Yale College. ; [Two lines of quotations in Latin]
Contributors: Welles, Noah, 1718-1776.; Smith, William Peartree, 1723-1801.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 5986.
Publisher: Printed by James Parker
Published: 1747
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 44
Notes: Half-title: Philosophic solitude: a poem.

Attributed to Livingston in the Dictionary of American biography.

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"To the ingenious author of the poem entitled Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. iii-vi, in verse; signed: N.W. [i.e., Noah Welles]. "To Mr. L*********, on his Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. vii-x, in verse; signed: W.P.S. [i.e., William Peartree Smith]. Cf. Sedgewick, Theodore. Memoir of the life of William Livingston (New York, 1833), p. 62.

Evans 5986.

Wegelin, O.  Amer. poetry, 245.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5986)