Retired pleasures , or the charms of rural life, in prose & verse, with occasional notes and illustrations, by George Wright ..

Philosophic solitude: or, The choice of a rural life  a poem. By a gentleman educated at Yale College. [Two lines of quotations in Latin].

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Retired pleasures , or the charms of rural life, in prose & verse, with occasional notes and illustrations, by George Wright ..

Philosophic solitude: or, The choice of a rural life a poem. By a gentleman educated at Yale College. [Two lines of quotations in Latin].