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Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/589

170- ?

On the death by suicide of the poet turned clergyman Thomas Creech, comparing

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt q 65

c.1770

Contains 24 English poems relating to contemporary family and state events.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6528

176- ?

Introduction to the poetic miscellany, and invocation of the poet's muse, addressed to and flattering Sir James Macdonald

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6529

176- ?

Directions to Joshua Reynolds, encouraging him to paint the poet's beloved naked rather than clothed, and in a natural style, so as to bring out her full beauty

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6530

176- ?

Ode addressed to Venus (goddess of love), spoken by a woman, beseeching her to make her lover return her affections

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6531

176- ?

Sonnet on the difficulty of achieving happiness

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6532

176- ?

On the happiness of the author's friendship with William Perrin, his former schoolfriend at Eton

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6533

176- ?

On the author's friendship with William Perrin. Cf. BCMSV 6532

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6534

176- ?

Imitation of Horace, Odes, I.27; satirical lines on the perils of excessive drinking

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6535

1762 ?

On the birth of the Prince of Wales, probably the future George IV, in 1762, and contemporary political events, including the Seven Years War

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6536

176- ?

Protestation of love, addressed to the poet's beloved

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6537

176- ?

Glorifying a war being fought by Britain in the mid-eighteenth century, presumably the Seven Years War