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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
Title: Journey from Windsor to London in a letter to Tho: Sandby Esq: sent the day after I came home, 1753
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1753 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the despondency of the poet, his horse, and his companion upon leaving the company of his friend, Thomas Sandby, artist and architect
Title: Come give your attention [index]
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the inability to resist the temptation to love, since life holds no pleasures without it