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Title: 1747 To Mr Lane on his garden at King's Stanley
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 1747 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Description of a friend's idyllic rural garden, ideal as a poetical retreat
Title: Verses made at Newtoun in Montgomery Shire whilst under violent pain
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On the mixture of suffering and happiness in human life, comparing the effect
of art on the beholder
Title: A dream
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Account of a dream in which his mother warns him of his brief period of life
and the eternal nature of heaven and hell
Title: True happiness
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On happiness consisting of a virtuous, religious life leading to the eternal
bliss of Heaven
Title: A panegyrick inscribed to Mr A.R.Hawksworth
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On the poet's muse being unequal to describing the merits of his friend
Hawksworth
Title: A description of an evening's walk taken in October 1751
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 1751 [title]
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Description of an evening's walk and the glories of nature, and of a visit to
the cottage of a humble, virtuous and religious old countryman with whom he
discusses the works of God
Title: A song [A song to Mira (index)]
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: A celebration of Spring in the countryside, describing the beauties of
nature. At end: "The conclusive lines of each stanza are taken from an old
ballad."
Title: The recluse
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On happiness consisting in a life free from the worldly ambitions of city and
court, instead having the eternal happiness of heaven in mind.
Title: An epitaph on a fair child
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Epitaph "design'd for M.Rowles" in which her death is compared to the cutting
of a flower.
Title: A panegyrick inscribed to John Scudamore Esq.
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: In praise of the virtues of John Scudamore, who by the exercise of reason
avoids vices and passions
Title: Contemplation by moonshine
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Religious contemplation of God's creative power over the sun, moon and stars
Title: Recollection
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Prayer to God that after death he will go to heaven.
Title: An epitaph
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Tombstone inscription or epitaph, in which the onlooker is warned of the
transience of human life and the inevitability of death.
Title: To Mr James Ferguson, Astronomer, who desired the author to draw his picture
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: In praise of the talents of the Astronomer Royal, James Ferguson, the
author's uncle
Title: Resignation
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Religious poem expressing desire to live with God in heaven after the cares
of life are over
Title: On the rapidity of time made on the commencement of my two and twentieth year
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 1751
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Reflection on the swiftness of time in human life
Title: Recollection
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Expression of readiness for death in order to enjoy the happiness of eternal
life in heaven; religious
Title: An hymn
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Religious poem on the happiness of heaven, including the beauty of celestial
music, expressing desire to leave the world for eternal life.
Title: An epitaph
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: General epitaph on the fate of the human body, destined to return to dust
after death.
Title: The happy plebean
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On a meeting in the country with an old wise shepherd who tells him that
happiness results from a virtuous life of reason, free from ambition and
passion.
Title: A panegyrick inscribed to the Revd Mr George Dallaway AB late of Clare Hall
Cambridge
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: In praise of George Dallaway his cousin, comparing his voice to the beauty of
bird song and wishing him eternal happiness in heaven.
Title: My choice
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Imagined description of the ideal country life of a bachelor, virtuous,
secluded and healthy in a simple cottage.
Title: Epitaph on Peter Smith late of Norwich
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Lament for the death of the jovial Pater Smith of Norwich.
Title: On a snowdrop
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On the beauty of a snowdrop, comparing its transience to the shortness of
human life and its innocence to virtue.