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BNL.762.034
16 Sep 1762:11 (3038)
This day is published, and to be sold by B Mecom, at the
New-Printing-Office, near the Town-House, (price one
pistereen), Philosophic Solitude: Or, the choice of a
rural life, a poem, by a gentleman educated at Yale College-
-the learned and ingenious William Livingston, Esq; of New-
York.
Me placent ante omnia sylvae. Virg.
Otium sixe literis mori est, & vivi hominit sepultura.
Sen.
This poem contains, The subject proposed. Situation of the
Author's house. His frugality in its furniture. The
beauties of the country. His love of retirement, and choice
of his friends. A description of the morning. Hymn to the
sun. Contemplation of the heavens. The existence of God
inferr'd from a view of the beauty and harmony of the
creation. Morning and evening devotion. The vanity of
riches and grandeur. The choice of his books. Praise of
the marriage state. A knot of modern ladies described.
Choice of a wife. The author's exit. The last paragraph of
a characteristical address to the author, contains the
following lines.
But why shou'd we on single features dwell,
Since all the parts of the fair piece excell ?
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