The Anthony Memorial: A Catalogue of the Harris Collection of American Poetry with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes

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Page 299 - mend his Native Country, la-||mentably tattered, both in the upperLeather || and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take. || And as willing never to bee paid for his work, || by Old English wonted pay. || It is his Trade to patch all the year long, gratis. || Therefore I pray Gentlemen keep your purses.
Page 23 - A Literal Reprint of the Bay Psalm Book, being the earliest New England Version of the Psalms, and the First Book Printed In America. Fifty copies for subscribers. 80, not paged. Cam bridge: Printed for Charles B. Richardson, New York, 1863. Thlc reprint, of which there are two copies In "The Harris Collection.
Page 23 - If therefore the verses are not always so smooth and elegant as some may desire or expect; let them consider that God's Altar needs not our polishings: Ex.
Page v - Old Grimes is dead ; that good old man We never shall see more ; He used to wear a long black coat, All buttoned down before. His heart was open as the day, His feelings all were true ; His hair was some inclined to gray, He wore it in a queue. Whene'er he heard the voice of pain, His breast with pity burned ; The large, round head upon his cane From ivory was turned.
Page 304 - ... capitulate with the supposed French and Indians. These three men approached in their shirts, and begged to speak with the general; but it being dark, and no answer given, they were sorely agitated for some time betwixt hope and fear; at length, however, they discovered that the dreaded inimical army was an army of thirsty frogs, going to the river for a little water.
Page 277 - When I had read it, and expressed my admiration, I asked him how he found time, in the scenes he had been passing through, to compose such a song? He said he commenced it on the deck of their vessel, in the fervor of the moment, when he saw the enemy hastily retreating to their ships, and looked at the flag he had watched for so anxiously as the morning opened; that he had written some lines, or brief notes that would aid him in calling them to mind, upon the back of a letter which he happened to...
Page 165 - An | Attempt to Shew, | That America must be Known to the | Ancients ; made at the Request, and to gratify the Curiosity, | of an Inquisitive Gentleman : | To which is ad.ded an Appendix, | Concerning the American Colonies, | and some | Modern Managements against | them. | By an American Englishman. | Pastor of a Church in Boston, New-England. | Boston New-England; \ 8ira, pp. 35. Half purple morocco. LARGE and FINE COPY. RAKE. Printed by jf. Kneeland. \ MDCCLXXHI. " A work of equal Learning and...
Page 13 - Sept. 1, 1774. VERSIFIED, and adapted to Music, CALCULATED For GRAVE and GAY DISPOSITIONS; WITH A SHORT INTRODUCTION. By BOB JINGLE. Esq; POET LAUREAT to the CONGRESS / ring the Men, read it who lint, Bold Trojam true, as ever — Cotton's Virg.
Page 312 - Meat out of the Eater; or, Meditations concerning the necessity, end, and usefulness of afflictions unto God's children, all tending to prepare them for and comfort them under the Cross.
Page 292 - Poetical vagaries of a Knight of the Folding-Stick, of Paste-Castle. To which is annexed, the History of the Garret, &c. &c. translated from the hieroglyphics of the society. By a member of the order of the Blue-String. Gotham.

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