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Brotherton Collection4
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commonplace-books4
english poetry4
proverbs, english1
christian poetry, english1
aphorisms and apothegms1

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Coles, Benjamin2
Marriott, Eliza1
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BC MS Lt 103, f. 13r: The opening of
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Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.

Marriott, Eliza

c.1740-1804

Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.

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BC MS Lt 109, p. 1: The opening of
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Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.

Lewis family

c.1700-1750

Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.

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BC MS Lt 24, f. 29v: The opening of Thomas D'Urfey's song
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Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Benjamin Coles

Coles, Benjamin

c.1730-1741

The volume also contains some prose

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BC MS Lt 53, f. 6r: Benjamin Coles's poem
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Commonplace book of verse and prose, compiled by Benjamin Coles

Coles, Benjamin

1741

Contains numerous poems in English and Latin, some of them apparently by Benjamin Coles, dated 17 January 1740/41 to 24 July 1740/41; there are also prose pieces on death, atheism, tobacco, witches an...

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