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Gildon, Charles19
Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)17
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C.G. [In Miscellany of Poems By Charles Gildon ... 1692]2
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A grammar of the English tongue : with the arts of logick, rhetorick, poetry, &c. : illustrated with useful notes, giving the grounds and reasons of grammar in general, the whole making a compleat system of an English education for the use of the schools of Great-Britain and Ireland

Brightland, John (1717); Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729); Gildon, Charles (1665-1724); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715)

[1735?]

Dedication signed: The authors. With a commendatory poem by Nahum Tate. Imprint date suggested by ESTC. The approbation of Isaac Bickerstaff, esq.":p.[2] at front. Variously attributed to John...

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Title: To Sylvia, the meeting

Author: Gildon, Charles

Attribution: C.G. [in Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692]

Date(s): 1692 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 71

Contents: Love poem, speculating on the blissful happiness of fulfilment in love-making

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Title: To Sylvia, a song

Author: Gildon, Charles

Attribution: C.G. [in Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692]

Date(s): 1692 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 71

Contents: Song of unrequited love, complaining that women are deceived by insincere outward shows of devotion to the disadvantage of those who truly love them

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The works of William Shakespear : containing Venus and Adonis. Tarquin and Lucrece : with his miscellany poems : to which are added, critical remarks on his plays, and an Essay on the art, rise, and progress of the stage, in Greece, Rome, and England

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sewell, George (1726); Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)

1728

In 1728 Tonson published an 8 volume set of Shakespeare's works edited by Pope. A ninth volume was published that year by Tonson and others to supplement the set. The present volume is intended to acc...

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A grammar of the English tongue, with the arts of logick, rhetorick, poetry, &c. Also useful notes giving the grounds and reason of grammar in general. The whole making a compleat system of an English education. For the use of the schools of Great Britain and Ireland

Brightland, John (1717); Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729); Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)

1714

Dedication (p. [3-4] at front) signed: John Brightland. "The approbation of Isaac Bickerstaff, esq."--Page [7] at front. "At different times attributed to John Brightland, Sir Richard Steele and C...

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The younger brother, or, The amorous jilt : a comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesty's servants

Behn, Aphra (1640-1689); Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)

1696

"Epistle dedicatory" and "An account of the life of the imcomparable Mrs. Behn" signed: Ch. Gildon.

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Miscellaneous letters and essays, on several subjects, philosophical, moral, historical, critical, amorous, &c. in prose and verse : directed to John Dryden... and other eminent men of th'age

Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)

1694

Edited and partly written by Charles Gildon who signs the dedication. Page 225-231 misnumbered 125-131; unnumbered errata page at end. Consists largely of discussions of poetry, including (p.64-11...

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Miscellany poems upon several occasions : consisting of original poems

Gildon, Charles (1665-1724); Dacier, André (1651-1722)

1692

Edited by C. Gildon who signs epistle dedicatory.

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Chorus poetarum, or, Poems on several occasions

Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)

1694

First edition. Dedication signed: Charles Gildon. Also published, 1696, under title: Poems on several occasions by the Duke of Buckingham... [etc.] and, 1698, under title: The poetical remains of ...

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A Vindication of the stage : with the usefulness and advantages of dramatick representations, in answer to Mr. Collier's late book, entituled, A view of the profaness and immorality, &c. In a letter to a friend

Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)

1698

Charles Gildon is suggested as author by the New CBEL. Signatures: piA-C⁴D⁴(-D4). Versos of half title and of t.p., and p. [30] are blank.

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