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The amusement of a winter's evening; or, Poetical effusions on various subjects

Title: The amusement of a winter's evening; or, Poetical effusions on various subjects / by John White.
Author: White, John, active 1829-1830.
Publication: London : Printed for the author, by J. Hearn, Jun., 23, Weston-Street, Pentonville, 1830.

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Description

[96] pages; 20 cm

Genre/Form

Drama.
Poetry.

Note

List of subscribers: pages [3-6].
Dedication: "To His Grace the Duke of Wellington . . . ."
Extra half title for "The last struggle": page [57].
Errata: page [96].

Contents

Introduction. -- The horrors of war; or, Matilda to Carlos. -- Lines accompanying a present of a knife, sent to a young lady to whom the author was sincerely attached. -- Sonnet. -- Man. -- The social hour. -- Ingratitude. -- Ode to fear. -- Sympathy's tear. -- Rural life. -- Sonnet. -- On money. -- Song. -- To the snowdrop. -- Song. -- Sir Egbert Delancey, a baronial story. -- Song. -- The fond lips we love. -- The hero of Waterloo. -- The complaint. -- Old prices; or a hint to the managers of the New Theatre, Covent Garden. -- Invocation to health. -- True glory. -- On fortitude. -- The life I love. -- An invocation to sincerity. -- Elogium of Strene. -- Avarice. -- On friendship. -- The last struggle! An operatic romance, in two acts.

Call Number

Pforz (White, J. Amusement of a winter's evening)

OCLC

556055394

Author

White, John, active 1829-1830.

Title

The amusement of a winter's evening; or, Poetical effusions on various subjects / by John White.

Publisher

London : Printed for the author, by J. Hearn, Jun., 23, Weston-Street, Pentonville, 1830.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: Partially unopened. -- In contemporary (possibly origingal) green cloth. -- Within white envelope.

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Place of Publication

England London

Added Author

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, dedicatee.

Hearn, John, Jun., active 1829-1830, printer.

Research Call Number

Pforz (White, J. Amusement of a winter's evening)

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