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Title: The poems of Boetius made English
Author: Graham, Richard, Viscount Preston
Attribution: The Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Preston, printed
Date(s): 1680
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Preston's English version of the verse sections of Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, divided into Book 1, metrum 1-7; Book 2, metrum 1-8; Book 3, metrum 1-12; Book 4, metrum 1-7; and Book 5, metrum 1-5
Title: The praises of a country life in irregular stanzas. To his worthy freind John Gibson Esq. being a paraphrase upon the 2d epode of Horace [Latin epigraph]. [Sir R. Grahme's paper to me, 1678 (f.30v)]
Author: Graham, Richard, Viscount Preston
Attribution: Rich: Grahme; [Latin]
Date(s): 1678 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: In praise of the happiness and plenty of a country life, freed from worldly cares and anxieties; in imitation of Horace, "Epodes", 2. Followed by a prose letter from Richard Graham presenting the poem to his friend John Gibson, subscribed
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Title: Pompey. A Pindarique ode.
Author: Graham, Richard, Viscount Preston
Date(s): 167- or 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: In praise of the glory and humility of Pompey, contrasting his character with that of Caesar, and lamenting the manner of his death
Title: To heaven. In imitation of the XXXIst ode of the first book of Horace which begins thus [Latin epigraph]
Author: Graham, Richard, Viscount Preston
Date(s): 167- and 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: On his humble desire for the simple fruits of nature rather than wealth, with a request that when youth passes he may content himself with poetry. Imitating Horace, "Odes", I.31.
Title: The nativitie [Sir R. Grahme on the Nativity of ..., A poem (f.34v)]
Author: Graham, Richard, Viscount Preston
Attribution: Sir R. Grahme (f.34v)
Date(s): 167- or 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Religious poem celebrating the splendid but humble nativity or birth of Christ, putting an end to the worship of pagan gods
Title: Quisquis composito - in Boetius, englished by Sir R.G. (verso)
Author: Graham, Richard, Viscount Preston
Attribution: Sir R.G. (verso); [Latin]
Date(s): 1680 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: On the freedom of men without ambition; extract from Sir Richard Graham's translation of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy", preceding a copy of the relevant Latin lines