Commonplace book by unidentified compiler with poetry, song lyrics, essays aphorisms, and a nursery rhyme, 1783-1815

Containers:

Bound Bound

Scope and content:

4 3/4" x 7 1/4" leather notebook containing 80 pages filled with approximately 50 entries, including:

1. "Death's Final Conquest by Shirley"
2. "A Dirge. By D'Urfey"
3. "A Character from Ramsays American Revolution / Aug 27th, 1782"
4. An extract from "Ramsays American Revolution / New York Nov: 25th 1783"
5. "The Wanderer: to the evening Star by Richard Nesbit"
6. "Mary Queen of Scotts Farewell to France"
7. "The Wizard of the Rock / W. M. Smith"
8. "Verses written by the Sea , in a Heavy Gale / Freneau"
9. "From Moore's Irish Melodies / 'The Vale of Avoca'"
10. An "Extract from Goldsmith's England"
11. "Extract from the Lady of the Lake / a Poem by Walter Scott, Esq."
12. "Lines written by Sir Walter Raleigh the night before his execution"
13. An extract "From Miss Bowdler's Essay on Politeness"
14. An extract "From Davis's travels in America / Philadelphia, Autumn of 1797"
15. "Sonnet to Pocahontas by Mr. Rolf"
16. "Extract from Wilson's Pedestrian excursion to the Falls of Niagara. 1800"
17. "Sonnet to a Fly... Decr 6th 1815"
18. "Thank you, pretty cow... Nursery Rhyme"

Acquisition information:

Purchase: 2023. Kurt A. Sanftleben.

Subjects:

Commonplace books

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