On the goodness of the Supreme Being. : a poetical essay
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Type of record: Book
Title: On the goodness of the Supreme Being. : a poetical essay
Classmark: BC Lt/HAM
Creator(s): Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Publisher: printed by J. Bentham... Sold by W. Thurlbourn, and T. Merrill ... J. Newbery, and T. Gardner, London
Publication city: Cambridge
Date(s): 1756
Language: English
Size and medium: 16 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/339119
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011944209705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
With a final leaf of advertisements.
The Seatonian prize poem for 1755.
Additional description
Bound with 10 other publications in a volume lettered: Poems. The volume has the bookplate of John Myddleton. Handwritten contents list at beginning of volume. Volume contents: 1. Hammond, James: Love elegies, 1732 -- 2. Gray, Thomas: Odes, 1757 -- 3. Young, Edward: Resignation, 1762 -- 4. Thomson, James: The castle of indolence, 1748 -- 5. Reflections on ancient and modern history, 1746 -- 6. Mason, William: Odes, 1756. "J. Middleton" inscribed on t.p. -- 7. The olympiade, 1752 -- 8. Smart, Christopher: On the goodness of the supreme being, 1756. "J. Middleton" inscribed on t.p. -- 9. Mason, William: Isis: an elegy, 1749 -- 10. Bereton, Jane: Merlin: a poem, 1735 -- 11. Whitehead, Paul: Manners: a satire, 1739. Signed "William Myddleton, his book, 1739" tp. Originally folio. Severely cropped, affecting some title information and text
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