The miscellaneous works of Colonel Humphreys.
- Title
- The miscellaneous works of Colonel Humphreys.
- Author
- Humphreys, David, 1752-1818.
- Publication
- New-York: :: Printed by Hodge, Allen, and Campbell; and sold at their respective book-stores.,
- M.DCC.XC. [1790] (With copy-right according to law.)
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- Subject terms
- Poems -- 1790.
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"The miscellaneous works of Colonel Humphreys." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N17453.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- TO THE Duke de ROCHEFOUCAULT.
- Extract from Barlow's Vision of Columbus.
- Extract from the Critical Review for June, 1785.
- Extract from the Monthly Review for May, 1785.
- From the Journal de Paris, May 7, 1786. Strictures on a Poem addressed to the American Armies.
- Translation of the introductory letter, prefixed by the Marquis de Chatellux, to the French edition of this Poem.
- ADDRESS TO THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
- Extract from the Columbian Magazine, for Oct. 1786. Remarks on "THE HAPPINESS OF AMERICA," a Poem.
- PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION OF THE POEM ON THE HAPPINESS OF AMERICA.
- A POEM ON THE HAPPINESS OF AMERICA. Addressed to the CITIZENS of the UNITED STATES.
- AN IMPROMPTU. (ANACREONTIC).
- AN EPITAPH. ALEXANDER SCAMMEL,
- MOUNT VERNON: AN ODE.
- THE GENIUS OF AMERICA. A SONG.—Tune, the watry God, &c.
- AN ELEGY ON LIEUTENANT DE HART. VOL.-AID. TO GEN. WAYNE
- THE MONKEY, WHO SHAVED HIMSELF AND HIS FRIENDS A FABLE.—Addressed to the Hon.—.
- AN ODE. ADDRESSED TO LAURA.
- THE SHEPHERD. A SONG. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.
- AN EPITHALAMIUM.
- ALEXANDER's FEAST. OR THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA's DAY. By Mr. Dryden.
- A LETTER TO A YOUNG LADY IN BOSTON.
- AN EPISTLE TO DR. DWIGHT.
- EPISTLE FROM DR. DWIGHT TO COL. HUMPHREYS.
- ELEGY ON THE BURNING OF FAIRFIELD, IN CONNECTICUT. Written in 1779, on the Spot were that Town stood.
- half title
- To JOHN TRUMBULL, ESQ. OF HARTFORD.
- PROLOGUE. SPOKEN BY MR. HALLAM.
- PERSONS.
- THE WIDOW OF MALABAR; OR, THE TYRANNY OF CUSTOM: A TRAGEDY.
- EPILOGUE. Spoken by Mrs. HENRY, in the character of Lanissa.
- PROLOGUE To the Translation of ATHALIAH, A TRAGEDY.
- EPILOGUE To the Translation of ATHALIAH, A TRAGEDY.
- ODE On the GLORY of COLUMBIA, By DR. DWIGHT.
- half title
- TO THE HONORABLE COL. JEREMIAH WADSWORTH, President of the State Society of the Cincinnati in Connecticut, &c.
- AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE OF GENERAL PUTNAM.
- half title
- AN ORATION.