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INDEX/BCMSV/1034

1775 (published) ?

Satirical epigram on a tedious writer

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INDEX/BCMSV/1039

1778 ?

'Answer' to the verses on peaceful pastoral life addressed to him by William

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INDEX/BCMSV/1110

1640 (title)

Vigorous defence against Puritan accusations of idolatry of the scriptural scenes depicted in the new stained-glass windows in the chapel of Christ Church, Oxford, describing them and praising the painter's art. Followed

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INDEX/BCMSV/1255

170-

Panegyric to Queen Anne when visiting Bath, expressing hope that her virtues

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INDEX/BCMSV/1275

1718 (published)

In praise of the theory of the formation of the Earth put forward by Dr Thomas Burnet in his "Telluris Theoria Sacra", 1681, translating Addison's

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 133

c.1795

An autograph poem concerning the construction of a canal at Southampton. Newton disagreed with this, believing that the existing river was wide enough and navigable. He compares the building of the...

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INDEX/BCMSV/1360

1659 (published)

Panegyric on the occasion of Oliver Cromwell's death, extravagantly praising all aspects of his life and career, and expressing confidence that Richard

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INDEX/BCMSV/1363

173- or 174- ?

Love poem complaining that a girl will tantalisingly allow only the briefest

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INDEX/BCMSV/1372

173- or 174- ?

Epigram on a husband preferring to dine apart from his wife, apparently

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INDEX/BCMSV/1374

1694 (published)

Extract from Addison's "An account of the greatest English poets", praising

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INDEX/BCMSV/1384

1712 (published)

Satire on the dullness and small literary ability of Elkanah Settle

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INDEX/BCMSV/1387

1720 (published)

Witty verses on a lady silencing her quarrelling servants, one uproar putting