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INDEX/BCMSV/6644

1747 (title)

Sending a copy of Alexander Pope's works to a lady, making out that they can best express his admiration for her and that Pope would have praised her beauty if he had known her

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INDEX/BCMSV/6646

1743

A translation of Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" (Jerusalem delivered), book XII, verses I-XXII.

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INDEX/BCMSV/6647

1743 (title)

Praising the virtues and talents of Philip Yorke (first Earl of Hardwicke) when Lord Chancellor, reflecting on the extent of his public service during his long life and anticipating those coming after him

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INDEX/BCMSV/6652

1747 (title)

On a lady's love of poetry, with a warning from the author that poets are sometimes untrue and deceptive. The author concedes though that poetry can save an author from oblivion.

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INDEX/BCMSV/6653

1747 (title)

On the difficulties of love.

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INDEX/BCMSV/6654

1747 (title)

On the development of writing and the invention of ink, and their usefulness in being able to express love

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INDEX/BCMSV/6655

1747 (title)

The poet asks a wave in a stream how the fair M---a looked as she walked along its banks and whether she was thinking of him. With a note keyed in from the first line "a cascade in Cash--ry Park".

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INDEX/BCMSV/6656

174-?

In praise of the beauty and virtues of a lady, comparing her with another of the same name, seemingly now dead, who had suffered more

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INDEX/BCMSV/6657

1747 (title)

On how artists have often depicted poets, and poets written verse in praise of artists, hoping that the lady in question might draw his picture, thus ensuring his own fame