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Title: [unknown]
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Date(s): 176- or 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: On the vagaries of fortune, illustrated by the reversal of fortunes of the oyster seller Nell and the pickled salmon seller Lucy
Title: The golden mean, 1743
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1743 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Expressing desire for the happiness and peace of mind which being neither weighted with the cares of the great nor fearful of poverty brings; perhaps inspired by Horace, Odes, I.10.
Title: On a lady frowning
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Comparing a lady's frown to clouded skies
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1750
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Song on the impossibility of hiding his love or of gaining a favourable response to it; published in 1790 with a date of 1750
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1749 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Love song in which the woman explains she has been making trial of her lover, feigning disdain to test his constancy; printed in 'Six new English songs'
Title: Epitaph on Milton
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Elegiac lament on the death of John Milton, arguing that his blindness cannot be deplored since it fired his imagination; with an echo of Alexander Pope's 'Epitaph' of 1720
Title: Acrostic
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Acrostic on the word 'satire', asserting its moral and critical function
Title: Custom, a satire
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1747
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Satire on the concept of value, describing the tyranny of custom and fashion over virtue, merit and truth in private and public morality
Title: The Globe of Archimedes translated from Claudian
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page); [Latin]
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the presumption and vanity of man's attempts to explain the universe and the divine creation, using the example of Archimedes; translated from Claudian
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Song on the ease with which it is possible to gain the love, if not the body, of a fashionable young lady
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Satirical drinking song in which the honesty of the friendship between drinkers is contrasted with the corruption of politics
Title: Pastoral
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1751 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Pastoral love song in which a rustic swain sings the praises of the virtuous Dolly, having freed himself from the beautiful but cold Molly. Printed three times in 1751, the first time as 'A new song. Sung by Mr [John] Beard, at Ranelagh Gardens'.
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Song in which a young compares her feelings at being abandoned by her lover, Strephon, with a flower deprived of sunlight
Title: Harvest-home. Duett
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Song duet on the amorous pursuits possible after harvest
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1750 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the games that two lovers play, both feigning disinterest in order to provoke the other's love; printed in 'A collection of English ballads', 1750, having been sung by John Beard
Title: Epigram
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1753 ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the English painter Samuel Coates, and his response to the arrival in England of the Swiss artist Jean Etienne Liotard in 1753; contrasting Liotard's famously long beard with Coates's youthful beardlessness
Title: Verses on Mr [sic] --
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Address to a lady - an old friend - with whom he has now fallen in love, arguing that it should be no surprise that his former esteem has altered in this way
Title: [unknown]
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the need for platonic and physical love to be joined in a single woman, describing some who only feel one form of desire
Title: [unknown]
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Urging women to secure their conquests in love by shunning inconstancy and indifference
Title: An epistle to Hargrove, or the nunnery, a tale. 1772
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the young women at Hargrove, praising their intelligence, virtue and spirit, but urging them to improve their chances of marriage by becoming less intimidating to men
Title: Epilogue to the Mask of Edwin
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Moral epilogue to a play, The Mask of Edwin, pointing out which are the virtuous characters and which not
Title: The inspectors triumph
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1753
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the literary battle between John Hill ('The inspector') and Henry Fielding, making reference to Christopher Smart, Arthur Murphy and others involved in the wars of the journal wits
Title: Addrest to Mrs --- who drew the author into a confession of his love and then demanded a copy of verses as a token of her conquest
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Criticising a woman for provoking his love when she loves another, and asserting his resistance. A later hand has inserted the name Euart into the title.
Title: Myrtilla demanding etc [index]
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On how charm must appear natural and free from affectation if it is to succeed in arousing love