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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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