The flourish of the annual spring : improved in a sermon preached at the Thursday lecture in Boston, May 3. 1739. By Mather Byles, D.D. Pastor of a church in Boston. [Three lines from Numbers].
| Author/creator | Byles, Mather |
| Other author | Fleet, Thomas, 1732-1797, printer. |
| Other author | Fleet, John, 1734-1806, printer. |
| Other author | Byles, Mather, 1707-1788. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The second edition. |
| Publication Info | Boston, New-England : Re-printed by Thomas and John Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, 1769. |
| Description | 25, 3 unnumbered pages ; 8⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| General note | Half-title: Dr. Byles's sermon on the spring of the year. |
| General note | Running title: Meditations on the spring of the year. |
| General note | "An hymn for the spring. The bloom of life fading in a happy death."--p. 24-25. Written in 1727, occasioned by the sudden deaths of Samuel Hirst, Thomas Lewis and Simon Bradstreet. First published as the work of "a very hopeful young scholar" in: Prince, Thomas. Morning healt no security against the sudden arrest of death, 2nd ed. Boston, 1727. The poem appears under subtitle in Byles' Poems on several occasions, Boston, 1744. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. |
| References | Evans, 11195 |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, W23139. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Genre/form | Sermons 1739. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1769. |
| Other title | Meditations on the spring of the year. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |