A collection of fugitive essays, in prose and verse. Written by Charles Prentiss. ; [One line from Johnson] ; Published according to act of Congress.

Title

A collection of fugitive essays, in prose and verse. Written by Charles Prentiss. ; [One line from Johnson] ; Published according to act of Congress.

Author

Prentiss, Charles, 1774-1820.

Publication

Leominster, (Massachusetts) :: Printed by and for the author.,

1797.

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Poems -- 1797.

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Contents

• title page
• Preface.
• SCATTERED CRITICISM.
  • NUMBER I.
  • NUMBER II.
  • NUMBER III.
  • NUMBER IV.
  • NUMBER V.
  • NUMBER IV.
    • THE ADIEU. WRITTEN FROM BEACON HILL.
    • notes
  • NUMBER VII.
  • NUMBER VIII.
  • NUMBER XI.
  • NUMBER X.
  • NUMBER XI.
  • NUMBER XII.
  • NUMBER XIII.
  • NUMBER XIV.
  • NUMBER XV.
  • NUMBER XVI.
  • NUMBER XVII.
  • NUMBER XVIII.
• ESSAYS—MORAL AND HUMOROUS.
  • NUMBER I.
  • NUMBER II. ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF WAR.
  • NUMBER III.
  • NUMBER IV.
  • NUMBER V.
  • NUMBER VI.
  • NUMBER VII.
  • NUMBER VIII.
  • NUMBER IX.
  • NUMBER X.
  • NUMBER XI.
  • NUMBER XII.
  • NUMBER XIII.
  • NUMBER XIV. APOSTROPHE TO RUM.
  • NUMBER XV. A FUNERAL ORATION.
  • NUMBER XVI. A CREED.
• Epigrams.
  • NUMBER I. On the necessary combination of genius and sci|ence in composition.
  • NUMBER II.
  • NUMBER III. On my old BOOTS.
  • NUMBER IV. On a certain writer, who was fond of maggotty Cheese, who frequently observed that nothing was lost.
  • NUMBER V. On MILTON and POPE.
  • NUMBER VI. On LIFE and DEATH.
  • NUMBER VII. On STERNE.
  • NUMBER VIII.
  • NUMBER IX. On CHESTERFIELD.
  • NUMBER X. On PETER PINDAR.
  • NUMBER XI.
  • NUMBER XII. ON THE QUESTION—WHAT IS BEAUTY. [The thoughts from Voltaire.]
  • NUMBER XIII. On RUM DRINKING.
  • NUMBER XIV. On SHAKESPEARE.
  • NUMBER XV.
  • NUMBER XVI. To a Poet with clouts on.
  • NUMBER XVII. [TYPOGRAPHICAL.] To the same.
  • NUMBER XVIII.
  • NUMBER XIX. A certain Lawyer observed that calf skin proper|ly shaved would make good paper.
  • NUMBER XX. On a man of a full purse and empty heart.
  • NUMBER XXI.
  • NUMBER XXII.
  • NUMBER XXIII. On a slovenly Poetaster, who observed that all good poets were slovenly and poor.
  • NUMBER XXIV.
  • NUMBER XXV.
  • NUMBER XXVI.
• POEMS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS.
  • On being refused a Lady's company to a Ball, the following was sent.
  • The last AMOROUS EPISTLE from JONATHAN to MOLLY.
  • CORIDON.
  • A WILL.
  • AMBITION.
  • LINES ON CHATTERTON.
  • The DRUNKEN DOCTOR. A FACT.
  • LINES inscribed to a YOUNG LADY, who had taken from the Centinel a MORCEAU of the author's poetry, and preserved it in her pocket book.
  • A FRAGMENT.
  • BEAUTY.
  • LETTER TO A FRIEND.
  • NESCIO QUID.
  • The substance of a long SERMON, preached in a small house, by a diminutive "holder forth"— turned into Sapphic.
  • HONESTY.
  • DISTINCTION. A POEM, delivered July 15, 1795, at Commence|ment, Cambridge.
  • IMAGINATION. A POEM, delivered at a PUBLIC EXHIBITION, in Cambridge, April 13, 1795.
  • And it came to pass in those days, that the spirit of politics pervaded my mind, which, ad|ded to the usual spirit of poetry, shone forth in a brief, yet pertinent EPISTLE TO THE ELECTORS OF A FED|ERAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
  • The Drama.
  • FRIENDSHIP AND INNOCENCE.
  • PARODY of the 1st. PSALM.
  • STANZAS TO DOMESTIC RETIRE|MENT.
  • FRAGMENT.
  • A TALE.
  • poem
  • To Cambridge ORATORS.
  • To LAURA.
• title page
• DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
• HAVEN, OR THE MERITED GALLOWS.
  • ACT I.
    • SCENE I. Room of an Inn—Punctum, Fly|head and others, sitting down to a game of Loo.
    • SCENE II. Chamber of the inn—Jack lying on the bed—Enter Doctor and Hartly.
  • ACT II.
    • SCENE I. The street.
    • SCENE II. Clarisa alone—a faint light in part of the room.
    • SCENE II. Tim, Punctum and Hartly.
  • ACT III.
    • SCENE I. Enter Hartly, Doctor, Punctum and Tim, with a candle, to the chamber where Cla|risa is.