The Shipwreck. A Sentimental And Descriptive Poem. In Three Cantos. By William Falconer, An English Sailor. [two Lines In Latin Fr
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Library of Congress<ESTCID>W022245<Notes>"Occasional elegy."--p. 101-103. "The shipweck. Occasioned by the loss of the Halsewell East-Indiaman."--p. 104]-105. "The storm, a poem. Descriptive of the late tempest, which raged with such destructive fury throughout the southern parts of North-America, in July, 1788. By a citizen of Philadelphia."--p. 107]-123. By Peter Markoe.<imprintFull>Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Prichard & Hall, in Market Street, near Front Street, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. 1788]. <collation>123, 1]p.; 18 Less
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  • 7.44 X 9.69 X 0.28 in
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  • Gale ECCO, Print Editions
  • June 10, 2010
  • English
  • 9781170889176
William Falconer (Born in Edinburgh, The United Kingdom February 21, 1732, died December 01, 1769) was a Scottish epic poet concerned mainly with life at sea. He also compiled a dictionary of marine m...
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