Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 1852
Count of Collection group
Top 10: Subject
Top 10: People and organisations
Title: Regnier's epitaph, made by himself
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: London Magazine April (?) 1771 p.655 col.21; [French]
Date(s): 1771 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Epitaph for the satirist Mathurin Regnier, translating preceding French lines
written by himself reflecting on his carefree life. With a note, "A very
athiestical epitaph, but very well translated (closely) and at least equally
witty in the translation wi
Title: A song called The Brown Jugg
Author: Fawkes, Francis
Attribution: The Revd Mr Fawkes
Date(s): 1761 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Comic drinking song, telling how the brown jug was made by a potter out of
the mortal remains of Toby Fillpot (or Philpotts), a famous drinker
Title: A poem of Dean Swift's copied from a lady's transcript
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Attribution: Dean Swift
Date(s): 1730 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Witty self-deprecatory apology to Lady Carteret, wife of the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, for failing to fulfil a dinner engagement, telling how she in turn
found his lifesyle difficult to bear on visiting him
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.
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: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious poem within a prose "Letter from the dead to the living", relating
a vision of heaven. At end, "B. Coles, 26 February 1740/1. NB: I wrote the
foregoing epistle to a young gentlewoman for whom I had a more than ordinary
respect when living".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: Mackbeth Act 1 Sc. the L.
Date(s): 1606 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Quotation from Act 1 Scene 7 of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" on justice
finding out the wrong-doer, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with
English ones that answer to them".
Title: To his Grace the Duke of Chandos
Author: Young, Edward
Attribution: E. Young
Date(s): 1728 ?
Manuscript: Lt 14
Contents: Witty complimentary dedication to James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos, of
Young's "Love of fame ... in seven characteristical satires", 1728, but in the:
event unpublished.
Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)
c.1670
Contains 194 seventeenth-century English poems, mainly Biblical paraphrases, chiefly the Psalms and the Song of Solomon, but also from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Proverbs, and Luke; also, di...
Title: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Epigram on time and universal transience
Title: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Dialogue on mortality between death and a lady (three speeches with names
prefixed), he claiming her without delay, she protesting her youth and beauty
Title: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Attribution: Ro. James
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Comparison of the transience of life to a bubble and a flower, particularly
the marigold, seeing also hope of a future life