TU NEW YORK PITERARY

Y AND ATIONS

L

WORKS

OF

SOLOMON GESSNER;

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.

WITH

NOTES, CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY.

To which is prefixed,

A COPIOUS MEMOIR OF

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

"Succeeding generations justly revere the urn of the Poet, whom the
Muses themselves inspired to teach the world innocence and virtue.
His fame survives when the trophies of the conqueror are mouldered
into dust."

Vol. 1, p. 8.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

ALBION PRESS PRINTED:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES CUNDEE,

Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row.

1805.

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