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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

Level: Piece

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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