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− | Rom | + | Rom: Caths. are saved from purgatory,<br /> |
So by what the Yankees good are doing<br /> | So by what the Yankees good are doing<br /> | ||
Buckskins will save from utter ruin. | Buckskins will save from utter ruin. |
Revision as of 12:30, 15 April 2014
George Wythe and Willam Ellery, "Poems on Witty Subjects in Congress," American Revolutionary War Manuscripts Collection, Boston Public Library, MS.Ch.E.8.31-33.[1]
Contents
- 1 Manuscript text, November-December 1776
- 1.1 "A Member of the Antinovanglian Faction to W. E.," by George Wythe (VA)
- 1.2 "A Novanglican to G.W.," by William Ellery (RI)
- 1.3 "Instead of Controlling Our Mary's Cross Humor," by William Ellery
- 1.4 "For Farms in Utopia, the Moon, or Some Fairyland," by George Wythe
- 1.5 "Epigram," by William Ellery
- 1.6 "Answer to Epigram," by George Wythe
- 1.7 "Unless You Will Take One Line for Your Ten," by William Ellery
- 1.8 "You've Not only Quitted Your Arrear," by George Wythe
- 1.9 "Some Mere Poetaster Call Tully," by George Wythe
- 1.10 "The Gen'rous Idea Your Last Piece Expresses," by William Ellery
- 1.11 "A Commissioner, to the People of Philadelphia," by William Ellery
- 2 See also
- 3 References
- 4 External links
Manuscript text, November-December 1776
"A Member of the Antinovanglian Faction to W. E.," by George Wythe (VA)
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"A Novanglican to G.W.," by William Ellery (RI)
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"Instead of Controlling Our Mary's Cross Humor," by William Ellery
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"For Farms in Utopia, the Moon, or Some Fairyland," by George Wythe
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And if slaves you include in your capitation, |
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"Epigram," by William Ellery
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"Answer to Epigram," by George Wythe
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"Unless You Will Take One Line for Your Ten," by William Ellery
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"You've Not only Quitted Your Arrear," by George Wythe
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"Some Mere Poetaster Call Tully," by George Wythe
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"The Gen'rous Idea Your Last Piece Expresses," by William Ellery
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"A Commissioner, to the People of Philadelphia," by William Ellery
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See also
References
- ↑ See W. Edwin Hemphill, "George Wythe Courts the Muses," William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 9, no. 3 (July 1952), 338-345.
- ↑ "Novanglian": New Englander.
- ↑ "Dire desire to write," paraphrase of Virgil, Aeneid, Book V, line 721.
- ↑ "The love which consumed Dido," Queen of Carthage.
- ↑ Ovid, Ex Ponto III, xxxvi.
- ↑ Jester, clown.
- ↑ Defy nature, literally "go against Minerva's will." Cicero, De Officiis, I, 31, 110.
- ↑ Wythe is a Virginian Cicero: [[wikipedia:Marcus Tullius Cicero|]].
- ↑ A great law of Nature.
- ↑ Classical Greek cry of exultation or triumph, traditionally addressed to Apollo the healer.
- ↑ "As of late, you see."
External links
- Boston Public Library, Special Collections.
- American Revolutionary War Manuscripts at the Boston Public Library, Internet Archive.
- Read these poems in the Internet Archive.