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Total number of records: 216

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Brotherton Collection216
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse216

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Rowe, Elizabeth21
Mrs Rowe19
Anonymous18
Pope, Alexander17
Mr Pope14
Yorke, Charles ?9
Mr: C--- Y---E (Verso of Preceding Leaf)8
Hawkins Browne, Isaac7
Stillingfleet, Benjamin6
Mr Stillingfleet6

Title: A query to a dull author. An epigram

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: N; The London magazine

Date(s): 1775 (published) ?

Manuscript: Lt 12

Contents: Satirical epigram on a tedious writer

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Title: Mr Garrick's answer to the verses addressed to him by the Earl of Chatham

Author: Garrick, David

Attribution: Mr Garrick

Date(s): 1778 ?

Manuscript: Lt 12

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

Pitt, Earl of Chatham (BCMSV 1038), praising his wisdom and poetic talent.

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Title: To the late Queen as she went to Bath

Author: Warton, Thomas; the elder ?

Attribution: Mr Wharton

Date(s): 170-

Manuscript: Lt q 13

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

will beneficially affect the development of the youthful poet. Corrected.

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Title: On Dr Burnets theory

Author: Newcomb, Thomas

Attribution: Mr Addison; [Latin]

Date(s): 1718 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: 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

Latin ode of 1689. Lacks the final 6 stanzas.

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Title: Kiss III imitated

Author: Ellis, John

Attribution: Mr John Ellis; [Latin]

Date(s): 173- or 174- ?

Manuscript: Lt 88

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

of kisses. Imitating Johannes Secundus's "Basia", 3.

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Title: An epigram of Secundus translated

Author: Ellis, John

Attribution: Mr John Elis; [Latin]

Date(s): 173- or 174- ?

Manuscript: Lt 88

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

translated from Johannes Secundus.

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Title: To the author of a poem entituled Successio

Author: Pope, Alexander

Attribution: Mr Pope

Date(s): 1712 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 20

Contents: Satire on the dullness and small literary ability of Elkanah Settle

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Title: Verses made to a simile of Mr Pope's

Author: Rowe, Nicholas

Attribution: Mr Rowe

Date(s): 1720 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 20

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

a stop to another

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Title: Epitaph design'd for Mr Rowe in Westminster Abbey. To the memory of Nicholas

Rowe Esq. his wife erected this monument

Author: Pope, Alexander

Attribution: Mr Pope

Date(s): 1718

Manuscript: Lt 20

Contents: Epitaph on Nicholas Rowe's monument in Westminster Abbey, praising him

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Title: Epitaph on Mrs Margaret Paston, of Barningham in Norfolk

Author: Dryden, John

Attribution: Mr Dryden

Date(s): 1712 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 20

Contents: Epitaph on Margaret Paston, praising her virtues

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Title: Poverty and poetry

Author: Broome, William

Attribution: Mr Broome

Date(s): 171- or 172- ?

Manuscript: Lt 20

Contents: Lighthearted verses on poets' lack of financial reward compared to some other

professions. Differs from the version published in 1727.

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Title: Verses imitated from the French of Mounsieur Maynard, To Cardinal Richlieu

Author: Stepney, George

Attribution: Mr Stepney; [French]

Date(s): 1706 ?

Manuscript: Lt 20

Contents: Lament for the decline of poetic and other powers as age and death approach,

conscious of the small part played in the victories of John Churchill, Duke of

Marlborough

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