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Epitaph

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Damon in pain, or The love-smitten swain. A sonnet.

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Pallas with the Muses

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Motto

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Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil
Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil

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An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed
An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed

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Analecta Fairfaxiana, compiled by Charles Fairfax for his son Henry Fairfax.

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On the Lord Lovelace's triumphant march into Oxford 1688

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Cato's soliloquy. Cato solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture; in his hand Plato's book on the immortality of the soul. A drawn sword on the table by him.

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A usefull meditation

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Poems by Oliver Style
Poems by Oliver Style

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Lisy's parting with her cat, by James Thomson
Lisy's parting with her cat, by James Thomson

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The king of hearts

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Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.
Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.

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The snail

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To Miss Walter of Grosvenor-Square on her birth-day, June 17, 1766

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A pastoral

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A ballad

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Epilogue to the Widow'd Wife, spoken by Mrs Clive

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A small fragment of my Lord Russel's elogy, whose much lamented execution was performed in Lincoln's Inn Fields on the 21st day of July 1683

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On seeing Mr Wilkes on the hustings at Guildhall

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To the fair authoress of an epigram, in answer to an illiberal abuse of the late Rev. Dr Sterne

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An ode

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The beau parson. Addressed to the Revd. Mr John Horne (Minister or Curate of Brentford)

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The life and actions of W.S. written by himself during his confinement in the tower at Liverpool.
The life and actions of W.S. written by himself during his confinement in the tower at Liverpool.

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Psalm XV. Religion & justice, goodness, & truth, or the duties to God, or the qualities of a Christian

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The kind inquiry

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To the author of some lines in yesterday's Gazetteer addressed to the Revd. Mr Horne

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The doctor and alderman over head & ears in the hyp. with a consultation upon the case. [...An Oxford ballad (index)]:

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An address to the young ladies [index]

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A rebus

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Extempore lines on a late translation of French sermons. Addressed to Dr D-d [Dod, margin].

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Upon the death of the most noble John Manners, Marquis of Granby and Colonel of the Blues. [Two epigrams on ... (index, cf.BCMSV 1017).]:

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Upon the same [i.e. the death of ... John Manners, Marquis of Granby]. [Two: epigrams on ... (index, cf. BCMSV 1016).]:

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Regnier's epitaph, made by himself

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The post from Parnassus. An epigram. [Epigram on Lord North (index).]

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Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Psalm CXXXIX. God is everywhere

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A song in Harlequin Skeleton sung by Mr Dunstall in the character of a woman ballad-singer, entitled The Stockwell Wonder. To the tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury

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[A distich under the signs of a public-house in Havering (index)]

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A song called The Brown Jugg

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An epitaph on the monument of the late worthy and rev. Mr Brighton [Beighton] (sic) of Egham, who was vicar of that place forty-five years

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A poem of Dean Swift's copied from a lady's transcript

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The sigh. On a lady deceased. [An elogy ... on the death of his wife: (index)].

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Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.
Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.

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