The traveller: or, A prospect of society. A poem. Containing a sketch of the manners of Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland, and Britain. : To which is added, True beauty: a matrimonial tale. : Likewise, The adventures of Tom Dreadnought, who served as a soldier, and also as a sailor, in the late war. / By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. [i.e., M.D.?] Author of The vicar of Wakefield, &c.

Title

The traveller: or, A prospect of society. A poem. Containing a sketch of the manners of Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland, and Britain. : To which is added, True beauty: a matrimonial tale. : Likewise, The adventures of Tom Dreadnought, who served as a soldier, and also as a sailor, in the late war. / By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. [i.e., M.D.?] Author of The vicar of Wakefield, &c.

Author

Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728-1774.

Publication

[Philadelphia] America: :: Printed [by Robert Bell?] for every purchaser,,

MDCCLXVIII. [1768]

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Subject terms

Europe -- Description and travel -- Poetry.

Poems -- 1768.

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"The traveller: or, A prospect of society. A poem. Containing a sketch of the manners of Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland, and Britain. : To which is added, True beauty: a matrimonial tale. : Likewise, The adventures of Tom Dreadnought, who served as a soldier, and also as a sailor, in the late war. / By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. [i.e., M.D.?] Author of The vicar of Wakefield, &c." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N08884.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• THE CONTENTS.
• TO THE PUBLIC.
  • ANECDOTE OF LADY MONTAGUE AND MR. POPE.
• Letter from Lady Mary W. Montague, to Miss—.
• POEMS
  • TOWN ECLOGUES.
    • MONDAY.—ROXANA, or the Drawing Room.
    • TUESDAY.—St. JAMES'S Coffee-House.
    • WEDNESDAY.—The Tête á Tête.
    • THURSDAY.—The BASSETTE-TABLE.
    • FRIDAY. The TOILETTE.
    • SATURDAY. The SMALL-POX.
  • VERSES addressed to the IMITATOR OF THE FIRST SATIRE of the Second Book of HORACE.
  • EPISTLE from Arthur Grey, the Footman, After his Condemnation for attempting a RAPE.
  • An ELEGY on Mrs. THOMPSON.
  • A HYMN to the MOON.
  • EPILOGUE to MARY, Queen of SCOTS.
  • A BALLAD.
  • THE LOVER:
  • THE LADY'S RESOLVE:
  • THE GENTLEMAN'S ANSWER.
  • A MAN IN LOVE.
  • A Receipt to cure the VAPOURS.
  • The fifth ODE of HORACE imitated.
  • FAREWELL TO BATH.
  • To CLIO.
• title page
• VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE Lady MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE,
• TO THE POLITE READER.
• THE CONTENTS.
• LETTERS OF LADY MONTAGUE.
  • LETTER LIII.
  • LETTER LIV.
  • LETTER LV,
  • LETTER LVI.
  • LETTER LVII.
  • LETTER LVIII. To Count—.
  • LETTER LIX.
• poems
  • The LIBERTINE REPULSED, a New Song, On the principles of Lady MONTAGUE.
  • poem
  • VERSES Written in a GARDEN.
  • A SONG by LADY M. W. M.
  • On the Death of Mrs. Bowes who died three months after Marriage Dec. 14. 1724.
  • A Caveat to the FAIR SEX.
  • Answer to an improper LOVE-LETTER.
  • Answer to a LADY who advised RETIREMENT.
• title page
• preface
• THE TRAVELLER.
• The CHARACTER of a LOVELY WOMAN.
• TRUE BEAUTY: OR, THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION.
• THE ADVENTURES OF TOM DREADNOUGHT, Who served as a SOLDIER, and also as a SAILOR, in the late WAR.