Poems on christian charity, contentment, and melancholy.
Wolverhampton.
Printed for the Author, by J. Smart, 1784.
First edition.
vi, [5], 12-88pp. ESTC T9681. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, and Oxford), and a further four in North America (Columbia, Harvard, Huntington, and Yale).
[Bound with:] POPE, Alexander. Messias. Idyllium sacrum. Per alexandrum pope, anglice conscriptum. Latine redditum. Wolverhampton. Typis, J. Smart, 1784. [4], 4-8, 4-8pp, [1]. Parallel English and Latin texts with duplicate pagination. ESTC T5691. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, and Oxford), and a further three in North America (Harvard, Huntington, and Yale).
8vo. Later calf-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Bookplate of Gerald P. Mander to FEP, inked annotation to recto of FFEP, very occasional manuscript corrections to text, some spotting.
[Bound with:] POPE, Alexander. Messias. Idyllium sacrum. Per alexandrum pope, anglice conscriptum. Latine redditum. Wolverhampton. Typis, J. Smart, 1784. [4], 4-8, 4-8pp, [1]. Parallel English and Latin texts with duplicate pagination. ESTC T5691. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, and Oxford), and a further three in North America (Harvard, Huntington, and Yale).
8vo. Later calf-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Bookplate of Gerald P. Mander to FEP, inked annotation to recto of FFEP, very occasional manuscript corrections to text, some spotting.
A collection of several poems by the Rev. Charles Billinge, former Chaplain of Moseley, near Wolverhampton. Two of the poems within were dedicated to his Staffordshire neighbours, John Hodgetts and Sir John Wrottesley. Respectively, they were dedicated 'Charity', 'from a lively sense of gratitude for unmerited and accumulated favours', and 'Melancholy', 'with the warmest sense of gratitude and cordial feeling'.
The latter poem, that on melancholy, is prefaced with an advertisement which asserts that melancholy itself 'may be said to originate in a series of unpleasant ideas or images, deeply impressed upon the mind, either by too earnest and serious a contemplation, or too lively and affecting a representation of objects either ideal or real'.
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The latter poem, that on melancholy, is prefaced with an advertisement which asserts that melancholy itself 'may be said to originate in a series of unpleasant ideas or images, deeply impressed upon the mind, either by too earnest and serious a contemplation, or too lively and affecting a representation of objects either ideal or real'.
