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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Prior, Matthew | 26 |
| Prior | 3 |
| Prior, Poems, P.101 | 1 |
| Prior, Poems, P.180 | 1 |
| Prior, Poems, P.43 | 1 |
| Prior, Poems, P.125 | 1 |
| [In Miscellany of Poems By Charles Gildon ... 1692], P.8 | 1 |
| [Bible] | 1 |
| [In Miscellany of Poems By Charles Gildon ... 1692], P.3 | 1 |
| [In Miscellany of Poems By Charles Gildon ... 1692], P.4 | 1 |
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior
Date(s): 1692
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: On the transience of human youth and beauty. From stanza 3 of Prior's Ode of
1692.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Extract from Prior's humorous verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, here
fancifully describing his own life in the country
Title: Pleasure
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, recommending a
life of pleasure free from the cares of learning and study but realising that
this will not bring perfect happiness
Title: Musick
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, welcoming the
power of music to gladden and soothe a soul troubled by grief and cares, but
finding its effects short-lived
Title: Drinking
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, rejecting
drinking as a source of comfort to the soul, and regretting the jests and
revels of the previous night
Title: Man's being
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", III, reflecting
whether the soul is simply a more refined part of the body or a divine spark
which at death will return to heaven
Title: Misery of life
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", III, on the
general unhappiness of human life
Title: Human learning
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", I, on the uesless
presumption of human wisdom, especially of knowledge of the universe
Title: Vanity of life
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", III, reflecting on
the transitoriness of human life, the uncertain fate of the soul, and
helplessness in the face of destiny
Title: A prayer
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", III, a prayer to
God for guidance and strength in facing the temptations and cares of human
life; religious
Title: Charity, a paraphrase, on the 13. chapter of the 1. of Corinthans
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the nature of charity, praising its beneficial influence.
Paraphrasing 1 Corinthians 13.
Title: Hans Carvel. De la Fontaine imitated. Adapted to the E. of Ranelagh. 1700
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1700 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Comic tale about an impotent husband and his young wife, freely adapted from
La Fontaine, "Contes", II.xii; here said to apply to Richard Jones, Earl of
Ranelagh
Title: To Doctor Sherlock on his discourse concerning death
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1690
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Extravagant praise of Dr William Sherlock's 'Practical discourse concerning
death' for teaching people (and Britain in general) Christian repentance and a
proper religious attitude to life and death
Title: To Chloe, weeping
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.180
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: On how the world of nature joins in weeping with his beloved,
yet her tears do not soften her hardheartedness towards him
Title: Cupid mistaken
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Oblique praise of the beauty of a young woman, in which Cupid
shoots his arrow at his mother Venus, having mistaken the one
for the other
Title: The ladle
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.125
Date(s): 1703
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Witty, humorous tale based on Ovid's story of Baucis and
Philemon, in which a farmer and his wife waste three wishes
granted them by two gods whom they entertain in their home
Title: A simile
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.101
Date(s): 1706 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Comparison of contemporary aspiring poets and wits,
self-satisfied but lacking in achievement, with a squirrel
playing in a rolling cage, never climbing higher
Title: The ladies looking-glass
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.43
Date(s): 1703
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Love poem comparing, when walking by the sea with his beloved,
her sudden changes of mood to changes in the sea from calm to
stormy
Title: Part of epistle
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.8
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Extracts from Prior's verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, commenting humorously on the latter's life in London and fancifully on his own life in the country
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.4
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Extracts from Prior's verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, commenting humorously on the theory that poetry is the result of chance, not divine inspiration
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.3
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Extract from Prior's verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, making out that poetry is the result of divine inspiration
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.6
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Extract from Prior's verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, on how we need help in writing poetry when children
Title: A Dutch proverb
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Comic proverb. In this copy, Clara (l.7) is identified as Mrs Janey Irish
Title: Celia to Damon
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1703
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Meditation on love, in pastoral mode, by a woman who has aroused the passion of her beloved, fearing future abandonment in favour of a new love